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Your consistent kindness is why I am here, Nia.

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Dec 14, 2020Liked by Antonia Malchik

Thanks for a beautiful and informative (as always!) essay. I was not aware of Vilsak, thanks for both of the articles. I read today (NYT?) that by making choices for Cabinet and Cabinet level positions, Biden (like any President) has a balancing act to do, and always there are pushbacks (look at the ones for the nominee for the Department of Defense) - sometimes more fierce than others. Also, I always like to visit https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ when I read sources I am not familiar with. To me the key is how a site does with Factual Content and prospect.org rates high.

I think the best ever travel (or adventure travel, is that a genre?) book I read was Tim Cope's "On the Trail of Ghengis Khan", an adventure across the entire Eurasian steppe. I read it 5+ years ago, but so much of that book is still very vivid to me!

Kindness. Absolutely, it's such an easy gift to give that keeps the world a better place. Thank you.

Neaderthal DNA -some poking around yields "about 2 percent of the DNA in the genomes of modern-day people with Eurasian ancestry is Neanderthal in origin". Wow! I've read at other times that it is 3%. Close enough :-)

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