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Jared Diamond



Jared Diamond is an American geographer, historian, anthropologist, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books on a wide variety of topics. Originally trained in biochemistry and physiology, Diamond is known for drawing from a large swath of fields, including anthropology, ecology, history, geography, socio/political movements and evolutionary biology, often interwoven with a psychological lens.

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Jared Diamond: “Humans, 150,000 Years Ago, Wouldn’t Figure on a List of the Five Most Interesting Species on Earth”

Most people would be overjoyed to receive one of the MacArthur Foundation’s annual “genius grants”—around half a million dollars, no strings attached—but when Jared Diamond won his, in 1985, it plunged him into a depression.

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Will the 1% Act on Inequality Before the Riots Start? | Jared Diamond | Big Think

How bad is wealth inequality in the United States? About 1 percent of Americans hold 80 percent of the money. In the United States, the correlation between the income of parents and the income of their children when they grow up is higher than in any other country in the world.

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Natural Experiments of History

Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past.

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How Societies Fail— and Sometimes Succeed | Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond articulately spelled out how his best-selling book, "Collapse" (2004), took shape.

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How America Could Become a Dictatorship in 10 Years | Jared Diamond

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Jared Diamond: The World Until Yesterday

The Horace Albright Lecture in Conservation: Spring 2014 Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, and UCLA professor, talks about his latest book and what we can learn from traditional societies.

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Is Nationalism Ever a Force for Good? | Jared Diamond | Big Think

Nationalism isn't always a bad thing. When a country doesn't have self-confidence, and a collective sense of identity, that is also a problem. The optimal situation, in the case of nationalism, is that a nation's citizens have a healthy amount of it.

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The Risks of the Everyday - with Jared Diamond

How dangerous is taking a shower? Jared Diamond shares what he learnt about risk from the tribes of Papua New Guinea. This audio is taken from a 2013 conversation, ‘The world until yesterday’.

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Jared Diamond - What Is the Far Far Future of Humans in the Universe?

Consider humanity's astounding progress in science during the past three hundred years. Now take a deep breath and project forward three billion years. Assuming humans survive, can we even conceive of what our progeny might be like?

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Why Societies Collapse | Jared Diamond

Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how

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