Brian Kevin
@brianme.bsky.social
Mostly lurking. Features editor, National Geographic. Past: Down East mag, Wildsam. As seen in: Audubon, Outside, T+L, NYT, others. 📖: The Footloose American. WI>MN>MT>OR>ME. www.briankevin.com
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"And as he stood there in the Sierras, he couldn’t help seeking an algorithmic explanation for his awe. 'Is there a way to measure this?' he wondered."
Gordy Megroz for National Geographic:
www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ar...
Gordy Megroz for National Geographic:
www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ar...
Have we been measuring mountains all wrong?
A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out Everest has steep competition.
www.nationalgeographic.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"And as he stood there in the Sierras, he couldn’t help seeking an algorithmic explanation for his awe. 'Is there a way to measure this?' he wondered."
Gordy Megroz for National Geographic:
www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ar...
Gordy Megroz for National Geographic:
www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ar...
Amazing seeing all the ❤️ for KWF today.
Karen Wynn Fonstad was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”
Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth
She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Amazing seeing all the ❤️ for KWF today.
I was an adolescent fantasy nerd in Oshkosh, WI, when I learned that Fonstad was from my town, and it was an epiphanic realization that you could be from flyover country and do creative, ambitious things. She was a hero, and it was an honor getting to write this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...
Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth
She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I was an adolescent fantasy nerd in Oshkosh, WI, when I learned that Fonstad was from my town, and it was an epiphanic realization that you could be from flyover country and do creative, ambitious things. She was a hero, and it was an honor getting to write this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...
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Struggling to find the words.
Arthur Frommer played a HUGE role in opening travel/tourism up to the masses. He inspired my mom in the 1960s—and me, a generation later. I followed in his footsteps for my first book. Felt like I knew him.
Devastated.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...
Arthur Frommer played a HUGE role in opening travel/tourism up to the masses. He inspired my mom in the 1960s—and me, a generation later. I followed in his footsteps for my first book. Felt like I knew him.
Devastated.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...
Arthur Frommer, 95, Dies; His Guidebooks Opened Travel to the Masses
After publishing “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” in 1957, he went on to build an empire of guidebooks, package tours, hotels and other services.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Struggling to find the words.
Arthur Frommer played a HUGE role in opening travel/tourism up to the masses. He inspired my mom in the 1960s—and me, a generation later. I followed in his footsteps for my first book. Felt like I knew him.
Devastated.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...
Arthur Frommer played a HUGE role in opening travel/tourism up to the masses. He inspired my mom in the 1960s—and me, a generation later. I followed in his footsteps for my first book. Felt like I knew him.
Devastated.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...
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This feature lede by @brianme.bsky.social. A lovingly written profile of one of the internet #SciComm #SciArt originals, @rosemarymosco.com 🐡🧪
Audubon Magazine did a profile on me. It was a joy to hang out with writer Brian Kevin (I took him pigeon-watching) and get photos taken by Sophie Park. This article is personal and, well, I'm a private gal so being beheld is alarming, but I think it turned out great www.audubon.org/magazine/som...
September 29, 2024 at 8:20 PM
This feature lede by @brianme.bsky.social. A lovingly written profile of one of the internet #SciComm #SciArt originals, @rosemarymosco.com 🐡🧪
What I've been up to. https://www.wildsam.com/pages/magazine
WILDSAM magazine
A new magazine dedicated to inspiring road trips. In every issue, we discover natural wonders, scenic drives, small-town gems and the rides and gear that help you get out there. What’s around the next bend? Come on the ride with us.
www.wildsam.com
November 21, 2023 at 9:51 PM
What I've been up to. https://www.wildsam.com/pages/magazine
This is the most incredible object in my house. Scientists should study it. A perfectly lovely ceramic dripper that manages not to fit on any mug ever created, no matter the size of the mug. Quantum shit.
August 1, 2023 at 1:27 PM
This is the most incredible object in my house. Scientists should study it. A perfectly lovely ceramic dripper that manages not to fit on any mug ever created, no matter the size of the mug. Quantum shit.