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| b1eba03 | I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the Levant, and passing through Eastern and Central Europe before crossing to the British Isles. And all of this knowable by an analysis of the cells on the inside of my mouth. I almost prefer the more rambling and indirect and journalistic investigation, which seems somehow less... deterministic. | history determinism british-isles central-europe eastern-europe genealogy genetics investigation levant mediterranean-sea national-geographic savanna sub-saharan-africa journalism ancestry | Christopher Hitchens | |
| cf17b16 | "Incluso en esos dias, los fotografos de Geographic tenian fama por algo mas que las fotografias. Como uno de ellos expreso recientemente, "me encantaria haber vivido la vida que la gente cree que he tenido". Si la dinamica imagen del fotografo de Geographic parece exagerada en novelas, folclore y cine, bueno, su vida es todavia nada aburrida. Nuestros equipos fotograficos han sobrevivido a ataques de tiburones, ejercitos invasores, aviones estrellados y volcanes en erupcion." | photography leah-bendavid-val national-geographic-society steve-mccurry national-geographic | Leah Bendavid-Val |