Film and book about KON-TIKI II

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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Гереро — одном из самых интересных и стойких народов Южной Африки. Их история переплетена с трагедиями, культурным упорством и необычайной самобытностью. Познакомимся с ними...
 

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 creation of fertile innovative ecological environment in the country is constrained by barriers of a conceptual nature. The article identifies four groups of such barriers. The authors propose a strategy for overcoming them based on a comparison of functions necessary for the innovative development of social practices and the natural mechanisms of a new life birth. This allows us to formulate a number of pragmatic recommendations for creating an innovative eco-environment for a wide range of industries. By analogy with natural dynamics of obstetrics, the approach is called placental

Keywords: Innovation, innovation infrastructure, acceleration, eco-environment, placenta, development.