Food for the Brain

I thought I was going to be able to claim that I had read the March issue of National Geographic from cover to cover, but, alas, I cannot. I used to subscribe to the magazine many many years ago, but since I couldn't manage to read them, it seemed a waste of money and I chose to not renew my subscription. But, while browsing the hospital gift shop a few weeks ago, I noticed the cover of the March issue was a topic of interest to me - the ancient migration of man out of Africa and how our DNA show markers of that ancestry. Of course I immediately grabbed it for purchase! Surprisingly though, despite enjoying the DNA article, I was also fascinated by the other articles in the magazine and found myself reading page after page of interesting material....until the end, that is. I just couldn't force myself to read an article about the socialite of Houston. I'm sorry. It seemed to be a topic that is more in tune with E! or People, not a magazine of more intellectual topics. I learned so much with this one issue - Ukraine's struggle towards democracy and President Yuschenko's efforts to bring two cultures into some sort of unity, Celtic cultural revival, coal as a fuel source for electricity and the escalating environmental costs, Ethiopia's endangered wolf species, and a history of Civil War ironclad ships vs wooden ships and how naval warfare changed after the Battle Hampton Roads. Fascinating stuff....

I just may have to resubscribe!