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October 29, 2008
Jared Diamond: Why Societies Collapse
I’m a big fan of Jared Diamond, in particular his books Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel. both of which are laudable efforts to take on massive and highly complex subjects, albeit at opposite ends of societal evolution. Anyway, I see that a 2003 TED talk of his is now available online:
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