Fwd: Amity Shlaes: Islam blamers ignore real Mideast trouble source

[Owen Densmore]

Today's New Mexican has and interesting article on rainfall and democratic processes.  Here's a copy from a different newspaper, the New Mexican site did not include it, alas.
        http://goo.gl/lIzX5

This is a bit like the direction of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond .. looking for correlation, explanation outside of the political domain.  Interesting anyway.

        -- Owen


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[Pamela McCorduck]

Fascinating--and quite persuasive. How about New Mexico's acequia system? 

On Apr 10, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

Today's New Mexican has and interesting article on rainfall and democratic processes.  Here's a copy from a different newspaper, the New Mexican site did not include it, alas.
http://goo.gl/lIzX5

This is a bit like the direction of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond .. looking for correlation, explanation outside of the political domain.  Interesting anyway.

-- Owen


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