7 years ago, while on a Live Parallel expedition in East Africa, I witnessed a scene. In the middle of the Savannah, on the ground cracked by the heat of brick-red color, from which stick out, straw-yellow, as if in response to the sun killed them, rare and dry bushes with short spines, on the old, with peeling paint stool, was ... TV! But not as big as we draw imagination, and little else with a picture tube, in which the wretched plastic dirty-gray color with completely missing buttons. And this dinosaur technique, imagine, works! From him like a snake, stretching the wire, to standing nearby... the motorcycle, which is operating as a generator, provides electricity to the TV. But that's not all! Another snake-the cable is routed from the television to the nearest tree is antenna. Semicircle, about this miracle of engineering, right on the ground, on which now and then crawling scarab beetles and numerous insects, get out to the surface after sunset, sit or lie people from small to large, spellbound by the action on the screen... as you guessed it, on the screen... football!
All this is quite entertaining, but really I was surprised by one boy who was put next to the motorcycle – to pour into his tank gasoline from a plastic bottle, which he periodically did, but he, crouching, stretching on socks, occasionally jumping, trying through the live wall of his tribesmen, to see (he still could not see because of the rumbling motorcycle), but to see at least the edge of the world that shone pictures of the broadcast football match. For this boy, it was all a real embodiment of his dream of another life!
Piogenic cocci, in the case of weakening the properties of the immune system of the skin (Yes, it is in the case of weakening the properties of immunity, because the normally functioning skin easily copes with numerous attacks of pyogenic microorganisms), can provoke the development of an island-inflammatory disease – pyoderma. Read more...
The only one of the three places on the planet covered with snow on the equator is Mount Irian Jaya. Along with other mountains it seizes the Baliem valley around the perimeter while I’m seized with the feeling of being carried to the primeval world...
В подборке утренних новостей в мире, читаю сегодня новостную заметку о том, что «в очередной раз самец гориллы убил человека…» Поразительная однобокость посыла! Теперь большинство людей, читающих хотя бы по утрам, будут думать, либо усилят свои представления, об агрессии этих исчезающих, как вид, приматов. Это вызвало во мне желание рассказать, как однажды, 7 лет назад, находясь в составе экспедиции Живая Параллель в Африке, будучи в коротеньком переходе через джунгли Руанды, наш проводник вдруг резко остановился и быстром движением руки остановил всю шеренгу исследователей. Читать далее...
Казалось бы, что может быть общего между коренными народами Крайнего Севера и африканцами? При всем желании очень трудно найти сходство между ненцами, хантами и представителями племен датогов и масаи, проживающих в Танзании. С таким же успехом можно пытаться сравнить раскаленный африканский песок и жидкий азот, лед и пламя, жару и холод, черное и белое. Тем не менее, побывав в экспедиции в Африке, удалось увидеть то, что роднит народы, никогда не пересекавшиеся друг с другом.
