[MR] Fwd: [johnmacsgroup] SALT: Why the West rules (for now, at least) --- Archaeologist/historian Ian

[David Chessler]

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From: Stewart Brand <sb at gbn.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:54:28 -0700
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Subject: [SALT] Why the West rules TONIGHT Apr. 13 (for forwarding)
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Do chaps or maps drive history?  Human brilliance and folly, or geography? 
Or maybe genes, or culture?  Archaeologist/historian Ian Morris goes a
level deeper than Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel to determine why
the standards of Europe and North America now prevail in the world when it
was the East that dominated for the 1,200 years between 550 and 1750 CE. 
Why did that happen, and what will happen next?

"Why the West Rules - For Now," Ian Morris, Marines' Memorial Theater,
Union Square, San Francisco, 7pm, TONIGHT Wednesday, April 13th. The show
starts promptly at 7:30pm.  (Note that this talk is at a new theater for
Long Now.  Marines' Memorial is at 609 Sutter Street, next to Mason, near
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Seminar page when you are signed in as a member. You can also purchase
tickets for $10
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Flannery, "Here on Earth"
June 7 - <http://longnow.org/seminars/02011/jun/07/viral-time/>Carl 
Zimmer, "Viral Time"

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