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- I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them…
- We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority…
- We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of…
- Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of…
- The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could…
- Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term…
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