jared diamond

I tivo'ed this the other night. The overarching 'eyeball-grabber' is footage of people '200 years in the future' digging up the pieces of our vanished civilization, trying to determine why we collapsed. In between the program is looking at past civilizations that either collapsed or didn't...

Just reread parts of Jared Diamond's essay - Agriculture: World's Worst Mistake. I was impressed with this essay when I was younger, but now that I'm older, I'm starting to wonder if it is seriously misleading. Jared Diamond does admit that it isn't solely just agriculture that is the...

My friend (father of the Jr Skepchicks) wrote me that he's taking his girls here, at Midland College this night. Dr Diamond is speaking at their Distinguished Lecturers Series. Here's the link

I'm part way through the Easter Island chapter. So far, an excellent book. I really am enjoying it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/opinion/01diamond.html Registration Required, although, see www.bugmenot.com toy bypass compulosry web registration. See also Malcom Gladwell's _New Yorker_ review of Diamond's forthcoming _Collapse_: http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/050103crbo_books

Excellent article found here on what helps spur the creation of wealth: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond_rich/rich_p1.html Also very interesting is that Bill Gates appears to be a Jared Diamond fan: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond_pulitzer/diamond_index.html In any event...

Jared Diamond: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond03/diamond_p4.html And the National Academy of Sciences: and: http://www4.nationalacademies.org/onpi/webextra.nsf/44bf87db309563a0852566f2006d63bb/e4dcc6e935831fc885256a8400588146?OpenDocument Both Jared Diamond and the NAS are...

So I just finished reading this book. While I found much of it informative, I also have some grave misgivings about the book´s outlook and conclusions. I really enjoyed and learned a lot from the author Jared Diamond´s last book, THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE. But GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL basically seems...