Tuesday, January 1, 2013


In this article:
Exploring the footsteps of the human race

Just learned about this exciting endeavor from Don Belt last night… http://www.outofedenwalk.com

“ABOUT 60,000 YEARS AGO, OUR ANCESTORS TOOK THE FIRST STEPS OUT OF THEIR PREHISTORIC AFRICAN “EDEN” TO BEGIN EXPLORING THE EARTH. IN EARLY 2013, REPORTER PAUL SALOPEK WILL FOLLOW IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS DURING AN EPIC ON-FOOT JOURNEY THAT WILL TAKE SEVEN YEARS.”

Sounds like an amazing story! Being a scientist/engineer, I wonder whether bringing some ‘standards’ to the interviews Paul will be conducting along his way would introduce some means of reasonable comparisons between cultures, landscapes, geographical and sustainability factors? Furthermore, it might be interesting to capture some of the meta data being generated by the social-media ‘cloud’ somehow graphically – meaning if one could dig-out the common information/opinions/factors from this data, and display this graphically e.g. vs. region/religion/… this might become interesting data.

Looking forward – Happy walking Paul!





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