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Fox Found

Photograph by Stefano Unterthiner, National Geographic

Once a royal hunting retreat, Gran Paradiso National Park preserves a wild side of Italy. Here, a red fox lies in wait, camouflaged in the autumn woods. Like all foxes, those in Gran Paradiso are adaptable opportunists

Surfing Makaha

Photograph by Paul Nicklen, National Geographic

Located on the west coast of the Hawaiian island of Oahu, Makaha has a reputation as a tightly cloistered community dominated by descendents of ancient Polynesian seafarers. Here, two sisters and their cousin head into the surf at Makaha just after dawn to warm up before a competition. Participating from an early age in this ancient sport of Hawaiian chiefs teaches children to take pride in the culture theyve inherited.

Read more about Nicklen's experience learning to photograph beneath the waves on Proof.

Two to Tonga

Photograph by Fabrice Guerin, National Geographic Your Shot

This day the sea was clear and quiet, writes Your Shot member Fabrice Guerin, who captured this picture of a humpback whale and calf off the South Pacific island of Tonga. The baby played for a few moments, and before joining the depths of the ocean, rubbed its mother as if to [give her] a hug.

Guerins picture recently appeared in Your Shots Daily Dozen.

This photo was submitted to Your Shot. Check out the new and improved website, where you can share photos, take part in assignments, lend your voice to stories, and connect with fellow photographers from around the globe.

If you were born before 1971, you are older than cup noodles. That’s the year that instant ramen noodles — invented by Momofuku Ando in 1958 — were first packaged in that plastic-sealed styrofoam bowl.

Thanks to Lucky Peach‘s website relaunch, we get another look at their detailed breakdown of ramen’s developmental history. To celebrate the new luckypeach.com, the magazine release features from their inaugural issue online for free, which focus on the “science and history of ramen.” Fascinated? Read on for some of the food’s highlight milestones.

2,000 BC – First fossil evidence of the existence of noodles from the Late Neolithic period discovered near China’s Yellow River.

1923 - Ramen carts and street stalls arise in Tokyo and Yokohama after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

1950s - The word “ramen” — speculated to originate from the Chinese word for hand-pulled noodles, “la mien” — becomes the preferred term for noodle soup.

1958 - Momofuku Ando invents instant ramen for poor post-World War Japan, discovering that frying noodles dehydrates and preserves them.

1971 - The Ando-found Nissin Foods company release cup noodles after five years of research, developing waterproof styrofoam cups that help push ramen’s popularity overseas.

For the full, detailed timeline visit here – and while you’re at it, we also recommend checking out Lucky Peach‘s illustrated breakdown of 20 different types of regional ramen, too.

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Whistler, British Columbia-based visual artist Owen Perry commandeered the Filson blog to produce a three-part photo and essay series documenting his solo journey across Canada. His trip opens with a six-day stint through Northern British Columbia and Yukon, which begins in the quaint municipality of Stewart whose population count was recorded at a mere 494 people in 2011. Perry also finds his way to Hyder, Alaska before veering north to the Yukon and eventually turning south to take the Alaska Highway route toward Prince George.

Accompanied by stunning outdoor landscapes and hauntingly empty expanses of wilderness, Perry’s vivid written descriptions of frontier lifestyles and age-old traditions come alive. For maximum effect and his own pleasure, Perry carefully frames photographs of charmingly dilapidated buildings like the Empress Hotel which was built in 1908 by a German financier during the railroad boom.

Juxtaposing the manmade testaments to long-passed histories are photographs of the sparkling Kinanskan Lake, touched by winter’s icy breath and sprinkled with downy flakes of snow. At its edges are pine trees, still verdant and lush though crystalized to their tips in blankets of ice. Above them hang light layers of fog which seem to settle somewhere between dissipating and remaining ever-present.

Perry’s camera catches it all, and with the patience of a true adventurer, he treks through these untouched landscapes, penning the best and worst moments of his journey along the way. You can follow his full expedition on Filson.

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Artists Cave

Photograph by Stephen Alvarez, National Geographic

Perched near Africas southern tip, Blombos Cave has yielded some of the earliest evidence of symbolic expression, including shell beads, engraved ocher, and ocher-processing kits that are 100,000 years old.

See more photos from the January 2015 feature story First Artists.

Rams Eye

Photograph by Dawn Wilson, National Geographic Your Shot

During a recent trip to Wyoming to photograph wildlife, I made a point of stopping in the North Fork Canyon outside Cody, Wyoming, to photograph the bighorn sheep during their annual rut, writes Your Shot member Dawn Wilson. The weather had been warm, so activity was a bit low. But on my final drive out of the canyon before heading home, I came upon two rams fighting nonstop, to the point that each had a bloody nose. An hour into the battle, this ram, which wound up being defeated, stopped for the briefest of moments to look at me, almost like a plea for help.

Wilsons picture recently appeared in Your Shots Daily Dozen.

This photo was submitted to Your Shot. Check out the new and improved website, where you can share photos, take part in assignments, lend your voice to stories, and connect with fellow photographers from around the globe.

On Saturday, December 27, 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie issued a joint press release “accept[ing] the comprehensive and wholesale changes recommended by the Bi-State Special Panel on the Future of the Port Authority,” a panel commissioned by the two governors. The report includes a recommendation to “Implement PATH service changes” including eliminating overnight service.

“I will vigorously oppose any efforts to cut PATH service,” said Mayor Dawn Zimmer. “This irresponsible proposal is a classic example of being penny wise and dollar foolish. Shutting down overnight PATH service will cost the State of New Jersey many times the supposed savings in lost economic activity, sales tax and business tax revenues. Cities like Hoboken, Jersey City and Newark are growing because residents and businesses want good access to transportation options like the PATH. It is incomprehensible that any New Jersey official would be willing to even consider this proposal that would only hurt the State’s economy.”

“We should be investing to expand, not limit our regional transit system,” added Mayor Zimmer. “I applaud the report recommendations to build a new Port Authority Bus Terminal and pursue additional trans-Hudson tunnel capacity and hope the recommendation to undermine the PATH system is quickly scrapped.”

The report can be viewed at: https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/files/atoms/files/SpecialPanelReporttotheGovernors2014-12-26FINAL.pdf

A Days Work

Photograph by Hemad Nazari, National Geographic Your Shot

A shepherd carries heavy luggage on a snowy mountain in northern Iran. According to Your Shot member Hemad Nazari, shepherds must walk 12 miles a day when moving their flocks of sheep from the high mountains to the valley.

Nazaris picture recently appeared in Your Shots Daily Dozen.

This photo was submitted to Your Shot. Check out the new and improved website, where you can share photos, take part in assignments, lend your voice to stories, and connect with fellow photographers from around the globe.

Sartorial Trailer for Kingsman.

"Kingsman: The Secret Service isn’t just a movie that reinvigorates the spy genre; it also injects new life into the classic British gentleman’s wardrobe.

MR PORTER has worked in concert with director Mr Matthew Vaughn, costume designer Ms Arianne Phillips and a dream team of British heritage brands to create a new menswear label that refreshes that wardrobe. The result is a 60-piece collection that includes suits, watches, ties, umbrellas, briefcases and more, and lives both on and off the big screen.

This is Kingsman. A new brand for the modern gentleman - available only at MR PORTER.”