On Peter Turchin, Yuval Noah Harari, and Jared Diamond
Urbanomics,
I have read and listened to Yuval Noah Harari and Jared Diamond and have (after being deceived by the first impressions) become…
I have read and listened to Yuval Noah Harari and Jared Diamond and have (after being deceived by the first impressions) become…
Historians believe that the past is irreducibly complex and the future wildly unpredictable. Scientists disagree. Who’s right?By…
Alvin Toffler, futurist and author of Future Shock and The Third Wave, died recently at the age of 87. Future Shock and The…
The concept of "ultrasociality" is becoming increasing popular as a tool to understand the characteristics and the evolution of…
What’s the magic ingredient to make your civilization grow? If you thought agriculture, good guess but wrong. Same with religion…
What is history? And what, if any, are its practical uses? These are the questions I’ve been pondering since being introduced…
What is history? And what, if any, are its practical uses? These are the questions I’ve been pondering since being introduced…
Many posts on this blog are critical–we slay zombie ideas, we call out statistical machismo, we try to derail bandwagons, we…
A controversial new would-be science attempts to find and apply the quantified laws of history. Even if it fails, the attempt…
I just read an interesting essay in Nature by Peter Turchin called "Arise Cliodynamics," and it got me wondering why more…