Explore

To explore something or somewhere is to open your mind to new and potentially exciting discoveries. It doesn't matter if someone has already been there or done that, the fact that it is a first for you makes your exploration special.

Some things that you explore may be physical and regional in nature. If you scuba dive and your aim is to find sunken pirate ships for the possible recovery of loot, you'll spend a lot of time and must be equipped with the appropriate gear.

Some people prefer to get out of their comfort zones and explore themselves by trying new things to figure out their likes and dislikes. Others get their exploratory fill by tracking down information and knowing as much as they can about everybody else. These people search by address to find out who lives in the big mansion or haunted house.

On fun type of exploratory activity is looking through a cave with all of its stalactites and stalagmites formed over hundreds of years. Another fun exploratory effort is the sport of geocaching where you locate hidden items with the use of GPS technology.

Bloggers speaking about exploring can be found at sites like questingforadventure and postcards-from-the-world.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Explore”

• Riding the Nashville Greenways

  
  Let's Go Ride a Bike — Authority: 422
  Back in November, I went on my first group ride with Nashville Slow Ride through two of Nashville’s greenways: Shelby Bottoms and Stones River. It’s really criminal that I waited so long to post about this, actually, because not only was it a fun 20-ish mile ride with great people, it also marked the ...
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• Finding Time for the Attitude of Gratitude: 5 Tips and Benefits!

  
  The Time Finder with Paula Eder — Authority: 418
  Finding time to feel your gratitude and to look at life from that expansive and deepening vantage point is always time well spent!  Not only does the attitude of gratitude connect each of us with our worlds in a way that is filled with warmth and meaning, but it also profoundly affects the energy that we bring to ...
  17 hours ago

• Are You Delicious? How Can You Tell? A Del.icio.us Primer

  
  uber.la — Authority: 121
  If you dont use delicious.com perhaps now is the time to get started. Owned by Yahoo, delicious is the best way I know of to leave a bread crumb of your research for others to follow. I have screen-grabbed a few searches I did this morning on delicious. The first one is for "healthcare" and [...]
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• Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) & licensing sites issues update

  
  Microsoft SMB Community Blog — Authority: 118
  For anyone that has attempted to reach the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) website, Volume Licensing Contract Manager site, or Explore.MS recently and encountered issues, here is an update from the Licensing Team on what is happening and what you can expect: As you are aware, Microsoft recently ...
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• Find Time for 3 Important Holiday Reminders!

  
  The Time Finder with Paula Eder — Authority: 418
  Finding time for what matters most is a challenge year ’round – and can be even more daunting during the holiday season. Here are 3 pieces of helpful advice for this very special time of year: My friend and colleague Wendy Battles , The Clean Eating Coach, advises pacing ourselves in her post titled Make Your ...
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• January Explore LifePoint

  
  LifePoint Online — Authority: 131
  Date Sunday, January 10Time 6:00 PMLocation LPCIf you’re a recent visitor at LifePoint and want to know more about us, join us for Explore LifePoint on Sunday, January 10, at 6 PM. During this introductory session, we’ll introduce you to LPC’s leadership, answer your questions, and feed you dinner. To RSVP, ...
  2 days ago

• Spelunking Antargange in a full moon night

  
  Butterfly blogs...! — Authority: 119
  May 9th 2009..."Not long before, That I knew that Karnataka has got almost everything a nature lover would look for. from waterfalls to dense forest, from beaches to mountain peaks, and all ancient structures loathed inside its geography, I think its one of the states of India to explore and Now when I am back in ...
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• 94 New Species Described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2009

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 149
  This sea slug discovered in the Philippines was just one of 94 new species described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2009. Image credit: California Academy of Sciences. Proving that there’s “still plenty of places to explore and things to discover on Earth,” the researchers of the The rest is here: ...
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• BLUE THING #8: Great Websites and Blogs to Explore

  
  The National Networker (TNNW) Blog — Authority: 136
  HAVE A LOOK AT THESE INTERESTING WEBSITES! http://bx.businessweek.com/business-writing/ http://a.parsons.edu/~joseph/k2/gameoflife/ http://www.terrawind.com/ http://www.mystickies.com/ http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_51/b4160092992355.htm http://www.aim.com/acronyms.adp ...
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• Find Time to Exercise, Whatever the Season – 3 Tips!

  
  The Time Finder with Paula Eder — Authority: 418
  Finding time for physical activity can be a special challenge when the weather isn’t always conducive to getting outside.  Then it’s tempting to procrastinate about exercising, or let it drop out of your routine entirely. But ultimately, dropping the ball on exercise will leave you feeling drained of energy and ...
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• Top 10 Ski Jumping Competitions

  
  en — Authority: 141
  To celebrate the start of the FIS World Cup Ski jumping season, Skyscanner brings you 10 of the most exciting ski jumping competitions in the world. Ski jumping is a strange sport. Most people of an athletic nature could have a try at any new sporting activity and make a reasonable go of it. You could punt a ...
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• 15 Festively Themed Places: World’s Most Christmassy Destinations

  
  en — Authority: 141
  Looking for the ultimate places to get festive? Skyscanner scans the globe to bring you the 15 most Christmassy places on the planet.   Sledge (Mississippi, USA)  It’s the blues rather than the wooden contraptions that hurtle down snow covered slopes that Sledge is really famous for. Despite having a ...
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• Post-mortem: SEEK*TOR

  
  Ludum Dare — Authority: 155
  So this was my first Ludum Dare. I did the Global Game Jam back in February, so I had some idea of what to expect, although the GGJ was teams rather than solo. One thing I do regret is not interacting more with the community–IRC, Twitter, etc. I could have used more feedback than I got, instead of relying almost ...
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• Where Does a Chipmunk Sleep? Answer at Bay Area Discovery Museum

  
  California Beaches Blog — Authority: 147
  “Animal Secrets” at Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito answers burning questions that adults and youth ponder and want to know the secrets to. Questions such as, “Where does a chipmunk sleep”…or…”What does an eagle feed its young?” will be answered when you visit the museum that allows all ages ...
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• Google Earth 5.1.3533.1731 Final

  
  Engineering Where Your EyE See — Authority: 156
  With Google Earth you can explore the earth from above! Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in — Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips. Google Earth puts a planet’s worth of imagery ...
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• Find Time, Tips, piTs, and Tweeps with 3 Twitter Tools

  
  The Time Finder with Paula Eder — Authority: 418
  Finding time by targeting your Twitter efforts toward your niche is a great strategy if you are using Twitter for your business.  How can you do that?  Here are 3 Twitter Tools that can help! Twitter Search is the search function in Twitter.  It will search through the stream of Tweets for whatever search ...
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• Xanadu

  
  The Secondlife Newspaper — Authority: 426
  In the movie “Xanadu,” two men turn an empty auditorium into a successful nightclub with the help of a muse. In Rainbow Wood, it might not have been a muse behind the club Xanadu, but there are certainly a number of creative people behind it. Club Xanadu is owned by Perri Prinz (Perri Rhoades in real-life) and ...
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• Finished my first Ludum Dare!

  
  Ludum Dare — Authority: 155
  Sweet, I managed to complete my first Ludum Dare! I was thinking of learning Push Button Engine for it, but after going through a couple of tutorials I decided I’d go for straight-up Actionscript instead. PBE has some neat features, but I need more time to get my head around its component-based programming model. ...
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• LoneStranger’s Explore Incomplete

  
  Ludum Dare — Authority: 155
  I uploaded my entry, even though it isn’t near complete.  I figured it’s worth getting feedback on what I have for future reference. I’ll probably write a post-mortem in a day or so, but I know the number one thing that I did wrong was that I didn’t organize properly at the beginning.  I didn’t know where ...
  4 days ago

• Gospel of Luke Chapter 2:8-15, 25-35 Antique Commentary Quotes

  
  A 'Goula Blogger — Authority: 123
  Luke 2:8-12 CATENA AUREA THEOPHYL; The infancy of the Savior was impressed upon us, both by frequent heraldings of Angels and testimonies of Evangelists, that we might be the more deeply penetrated in our hearts by what has been done for us. And we may observe, that the sign given us of the newborn Savior was, that ...
  4 days ago

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