Getting ready for some travel to the south of France or the great wall of China, this Bolivian Suede travel bag from National Geographic is the perfect companion for your journals, sketchbooks and passport. Lightweight and comfort of suede, this handcrafted piece of art is perfect for that soul searching trip you've been meaning to do. Adding personality to the bag is the bolivian textile that has been embossed on the strap.

The National Geographic is having a year-long special on the population issue. Happy Parenting Journey highlighted a video that encourage everybody to think about the implications of this number "7 Billion" and the impact to our planet. The video was not all gloom and actually points to the fact that 7 billion people only needs a small space. It's only the distribution of resources that is a problem. Read the blog and watch the video.

This article from National Geographic contains interesting facts about newly discovered ancient galaxies spied by the Hubble telescope that push the known start of galaxies back more than a billion and a half years.
Also there was the announcement of the discovery of what may be the first habitable planet outside our solar system with an atmosphere, some temperate regions as well as liquid water. Another theory postulated in 2010 concerns the possibility of black holes containing whole universes of their own.