Holy cow, this sounds pretty .. er .. eclectic.
I'm in the middle of Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" and
find these rants rather interesting. Jared, btw, is on edge.org
nowadays w/ another interesting thread.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond03/diamond_index.htmlOwen
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> Date: Thu Jun 5, 2003 9:37:31 AM America/Denver
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> Subject: [Activities-announce] Reminder- cColloquium Today-Roger
> Kennedy 3:30pm
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> ***
http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/events/seminarAbstracts****>
> *** SFI COLLOQUIUM Thursday June 5, 3:30pm ***
>
> Location: Noyce Conference Room
>
> Title: "A Non-quantitative Rumination Upon Where We Are Geographically
> and Historically"
>
> Speaker: Roger Kennedy
>
> Affiliation: Director, U. S. National Parks Service (1993-1997)
>
> Abstract:
>
> The talk will be about The State of This Place -- how in the sixteenth
> through nineteenth centuries two sets of exotic culture-complexes-- one
> Mediterranean in origin and the other North Sea in origin -- including
> ideas, people, animals, and microbes, each set distinct from the other,
> met in Texas and New Mexico, and were for a time overlaid upon a
> complex
> set of pre-occupying cultures, also comprised of ideas, people,
> animals,
> and microbes. And how in the later twentieth century a range of social
> objectives ranging from aversion to depressions through Cold War
> desires
> to disperse cities and to facilitate ready transit of armies along
> interior lines, induced as unintended consequences exurban growth of
> human populations pressing upon natural systems already distempered by
> human intrusions and inept manipulation. The consequences have been in
> recent decades massive migrations into perilous places, both flame
> zones
> and flood zones, as the accumulation of past attitudes arising from the
> three commerged cultures -- Mediterranean, North Sea, and indigenous --
> made it difficult to make public policy responding to the abrasions of
> newly-arrived multitudes of humans upon natural systems.
>
> Bae Smith
> Research Assistant
> Santa Fe Institute
> 1399 Hyde Park Road
> Santa Fe, NM 87501
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