Film and book about KON-TIKI II

The Himba tribe is one of the most colorful and unique peoples of Africa, living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene region, near the border with Angola. It is a mistake to assume that these people are wild. Many Himba have dual citizenship - Himba and Namibia (not many of us can boast passports from two countries :)), but they do not fully recognize Western laws. Their culture, way of life and appearance have remained virtually unchanged for centuries despite globalization. It is understandable that young people leave for the cities, but they also often return to their roots. And why? Let's try to figure it out together...

The history of dermatology remembers many attempts to transform human skin, a dense tissue, into a liquid. The search for a method to separate the skin's cellular substrate to obtain a suspension and study the phenotype of its constituent cells became the basis for a long-term research, resulting in a patented method for digitally assessing the subpopulation composition of skin cells - the skin cytoimmunogram... read the full article

Surprisingly, there are 14 years between these books. That's exactly how long Leo Tolstoy felt one cycle of human maturation constitutes. He had an almost intimate idea of ​​dividing life into periods—conditional periods in which, every fourteen years, a person reaches a new level of understanding.

If, putting aside excessive modesty (briefly and strictly for scientific purposes), we apply this logic to ourselves, a curious picture emerges.

On January 4, 2026, it will be exactly three years since I returned to the pool after a thirty-year hiatus...

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