Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Did anyone make the first Ulam lecture last night and have a review?
>
http://www.santafe.edu/events/ulamAbstracts>
> Even with David Byrne playing at the Opera, I heard they had a full house.
How about lecture II? With John Sayles premiering Silvertown at the
Lensic last night?
Here's a article from PNAS arguing that the distribution of the wealth
of nations seen today is largely explained by the distribution of
biogeographical wealth available 12 millenia ago for conversion to
neolithic technologies:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/10/3715-- rec --