Journey of Mankind
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Anyone watch this last night? If not and you're in the UK catch on iPlayer. Very interesting. Journey of Mankind[^] "Astonishing genetic evidence reveals that everyone alive today who is not African descends from just one successful, tiny group [according to the programme, just a few hundred people] which left the continent in a single crossing, an event that may have happened around 70 thousand years ago." Related to the documentary - interactive version. It will take you about 10 minutes. Peopling of the World[^]
Kevin
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Anyone watch this last night? If not and you're in the UK catch on iPlayer. Very interesting. Journey of Mankind[^] "Astonishing genetic evidence reveals that everyone alive today who is not African descends from just one successful, tiny group [according to the programme, just a few hundred people] which left the continent in a single crossing, an event that may have happened around 70 thousand years ago." Related to the documentary - interactive version. It will take you about 10 minutes. Peopling of the World[^]
Kevin
Only saw the last few minutes of it but it looked good. Luckily I had left the recorder going by mistake after the previous program (South Pacific? - documentary, not "There ain't nothing like a Daaaaaaaame, nothing in the world......etc etc) so I can watch the whole thing. My daughter is hopefully going to Kenya in Summer 2010 for a month witha school expedition so it might be interesting for her too.
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Only saw the last few minutes of it but it looked good. Luckily I had left the recorder going by mistake after the previous program (South Pacific? - documentary, not "There ain't nothing like a Daaaaaaaame, nothing in the world......etc etc) so I can watch the whole thing. My daughter is hopefully going to Kenya in Summer 2010 for a month witha school expedition so it might be interesting for her too.
Joined Folding@Home 12 March 2009. Laptop probably not up to it but it's chugging away.
Baconbutty wrote:
My daughter is hopefully going to Kenya in Summer 2010 for a month witha school expedition
When I were a lad, it were the Tower of London! Kenya - just ask her what it'll do to her Carbon Balance, that'll worry her...
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Baconbutty wrote:
My daughter is hopefully going to Kenya in Summer 2010 for a month witha school expedition
When I were a lad, it were the Tower of London! Kenya - just ask her what it'll do to her Carbon Balance, that'll worry her...
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We had to settle for a visit to Hartlepool nuclear power station :(( The only exciting bit was when we saw a very large open oil drum type container filled the the brim with a fluorescent green liquid. It was like something off the Simpsons. We got shouted at to get away from it, and they wouldn't answer questions about what it was. Looking back, it was probably just Swarfega, but it seemed exciting at the time.
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
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We had to settle for a visit to Hartlepool nuclear power station :(( The only exciting bit was when we saw a very large open oil drum type container filled the the brim with a fluorescent green liquid. It was like something off the Simpsons. We got shouted at to get away from it, and they wouldn't answer questions about what it was. Looking back, it was probably just Swarfega, but it seemed exciting at the time.
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
That's still more excitement than I had in my nuke plant tour in grade school. All we got was an extremely stern lecture about what would happen if we touched anything during out walk-through of the control room. :rolleyes:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
