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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Jared diamond - Caught on Camera

Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings by Jared Diamond review – how to change the course of history

The author of Guns, Germs and Steel falters in this flawed study of whether individuals really make a difference

The Guardian - UK

Genghis Khan got lucky with the weather. Mark Zuckerberg was lucky too, says the Pulitzer-winning author of ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel’

Author Jared Diamond told Fortune that a leader’s impact depends almost entirely on the industry—and utility bosses may be the most replaceable of all.

Fortune

Friday essay: how societies evolved into fear-dominated goliaths – then collapsed

We think of ancient civilisations as operating very differently from the way our economy works today. Yet the Bronze Age Assyrians living in Mesopotamia, around 4,000 to 3,000 years ago, began the basis of modern capitalism, in a region spanning most of modern-day Iraq, eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. The…

The Conversation

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The Agony of Defeat, Not Winning, Is What Makes Sports Exciting

Plus: MLB’s labor showdown, and maybe referees really are biased for the Chiefs

Reason

Global apartheid: A secret history

Israel and the US share a form of colonial arrogance: Certain people have the right to move; others don't

Salon

‘We need dramatic social and technological changes’: is societal collapse inevitable?

Academic Danilo Brozović says studies of failed civilisations all point in one direction – today’s society needs radical transformation to survive

The Guardian - UK

'Why Men': A criticism of the inevitability of male dominance

Our Perspective guests are two anthropologists who are challenging established critical thinking that violence, oppression and inequality are the natural order of things. They criticise the well-established work of professors like Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari and Jordan Peterson – claiming that their views on male dominance being…

France 24

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Jim who? Chalmers may not have Keating’s cut-through but this budget is his chance to serenade Australia

The treasurer’s biggest challenge is not making the numbers add up, it’s making sure the words take voters with him

The Guardian - AU

What Are Billionaires Reading? Musk, Bezos, Gates, Buffett & Others Recommend These Books

Berkshire Hathway’s (NYSE: BRK.B) Charlie Munger once said, “In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time.”

Benzinga

‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human history

Wengrow and his late co-author David Graeber caused a sensation with their revisionist view of humankind’s development. But then came the attacks…

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