Exhibit: Race to the End of the World

The National Georgraphic Museum has a new exhibit entitled, The Race to the End of the World. Which according to the curator Ross MacPhee of New York's American Museum of Natural History is,

”Race to the End of the Earth” is partly a presentation of a true-life adventure story and partly a display of classic and modern methods of polar travel, science, and technology. But overall it is a celebration of what motivates us as humans to go out to explore and understand our world."

All I know is that it sounds amazing especially after the recent, Walking with the Wounded expedition to the North Pole. Seeing how people are still testing the limits and seeing how far man can go in their explorations is fascinating to me. I'm at Busboys and Poets on 14th St in DC as I write this and they are assisting in the promotion of this exhibit with their staff wearing exhibition shirts and with an ice sculpture outside the restaurant. Once the ice sculpture, pictured below, melts five lucky people will have a pass for free admission to the exhibit.