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When It Comes to Neanderthals, Humans May Be the Borg
The extinction and competition hypotheses for the demise of the Neanderthals, notably suggested by interdisciplinary scientist and author Jared Diamond, hinge on the idea that humans were more...
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What is religion?
Pascal Boyer in his book ‘The Fracture of an Illusion’ asserts that religion does not exist. Boyer points out that “religion” doesn’t exist as a concept in most societies. When Boyer, an...
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The ethics of allowing uncontacted natives to remain uncontacted
This video has also been around a while, but I just saw it this weekend. Watching this, I had three conflicting sets of emotions. The first is amazement that there are still tribes in the wild that...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed, a brief review
After my post the other day on what fields I thought someone needed to be familiar with for coming up with credible theories about why civilizations collapse, a number of people recommended I read...
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Ancient baby boom holds a lesson in over-population
Along the lines of last week’s discussion of Jared Diamond’s book ‘Collapse': Ancient baby boom holds a lesson in over-population — ScienceDaily. Washington State University researchers have sketched...
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xkcd: California drought
I’m reminded of Jared Diamond’s point in his book ‘Collapse’ about Montana, that if it were an independent civilization with the same environmental problems, not integrated with the rest of the United...
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