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April 25, 2022: Paul Salopek is walking "Out of Eden" and around the world
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Today: Paul Salopek is walking "Out of Eden" and around the world
First...
• Last week's audio has been corrected. Listen to it here. (The original glitchy live version will enter history as legend...)
• Elon Musk and Twitter Reach Deal for Sale (NYT today, April 25, 2022): glad to say I haven’t logged in since last week’s show.
Links to Paul Salopek
• Out of Eden Walk (on National Geographic's website): “Paul Salopek’s 24,000-mile odyssey is a decade-long experiment in slow journalism. Moving at the beat of his footsteps, Paul is walking the pathways of the first humans who migrated out of Africa in the Stone Age and made the Earth ours. Along the way he is covering the major stories of our time - from climate change to technological innovation, from mass migration to cultural survival - by giving voice to the people who inhabit them every day. His words, as well as his photographs, video, and audio, create a global record of human life at the start of a new millennium as told by villagers, nomads, traders, farmers, soldiers, and artists who rarely make the news. In this way, if we choose to slow down and observe carefully, we also can rediscover our world.”
• From this post by walking partner Yang Wendou in Yunnan province, China (January 19, 2022): “Looking back on the more than 200 miles I walked with Paul, I came to an unexpected realization. Walking for its own sake, while healthy and admirable, is only a small part of the benefit of moving with our feet. A deeper reward is rediscovering the world around us, shortening the distance between each other, deepening mutual understanding, and sharing each other’s cultures.”
• About Paul Salopek: “Born in California in 1962, Paul Salopek was raised in central Mexico. As a writer and journalist, he has traveled to more than 50 countries and earned most of America’s top print media awards, including Pulitzers for his reporting on human genetics and the civil war in Congo. In his past lives, Paul worked as a commercial fisherman in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, mined gold in Australia, and managed a ranch in Mexico.” See also Wikipedia.
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Paul Salopek discusses his 24,000-mile "Out of Eden Walk" and what it means for our technological society. | ||||||||||
Tomaš Dvořák |
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Mark's comments | 0:48:00 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||||||||
The Cleverlys |
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
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Listener comments!
Hey, chresti, TDK60, DanFA, James, dreamyandseedy, all!
ultradamno!
David! How have you been, me Runza?
Oops, yr show is about to end. And I JUST tuned in. But I wanna be part of the world when outside. I listened to music on my WALKMAN (bk then) but quickly learned I was uncomfortable. Anyway, mark hurst is on now…
The internet just happened to go out at work this morning on the day that I wore my Techtonic shirt. Coincidence? I bet SOMEone wishes they'd got off Google before now!
Mark, loved that Bill Bryson book. enjoying this conversation very much!
also, hellos all around!
Has anybody mentioned Thoreau’s “Walking”?
Seems to me many of my favorite historic writers deeply value and use walking as a way of facilitating the creative muse.
Great conversation!
She’s currently working on Richard Hunts’ (Sesame Street puppeteer who was openly gay) official biography.
City dwellers probably walk a few miles a day (I try to make sure I do).
As a family we quite enjoyed the Mohawk Trail when we were upstate for a bit after the pandemic hit.
I’m very intent on getting my young children to embrace and look forward to walking, around the city and on trails, as much as possible.
www.cbc.ca...
Dean, I did (and hitchhiked) when I lived in a suburb of Santa Maria, but you're right.
Empathy and compassion are the twin engines of society.
So relieved that my kid’s 1st grade teacher talks frequently about empathy.
Thanks all - really great stuff!
Stay Toniced, Technoids!
Night all.
15 yrs ago playing in a Celtic Rock band throughout the metro area drunk lads would be pestering us about not playing it.
Pretty good , or at least more tolerable.
https://www.walksydneystreets.net/
Many of the photos on this website were taken as Alan Waddell, 94,
walked every street in 292 suburbs of Sydney, Australia.