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Ep. 260: Make Haste Slowly
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Origins of the Nile
European's knew so little about the interior of Africa until surprisingly late. In fact, you can't even get boats through it because it's so choked with vegetation and this and that. They came in from over by the Arabian Peninsula in East Africa, by the Horn of Africa. That's how they eventually found it. There's a cool Lincoln Child book. He has a thriller that takes place in that swamp part of the Nile. And the premise is there's this tomb, this lost tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh that's under the waters of this swamp.
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