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Originally posted by rainmaker
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Originally posted by bard
It's interesting trying to figure out the backgrounds, interests, and beliefs of some of the people on this board. 750 pages on the geologic history of the earth?!?
Is Juulie...
A) suffering from insomnia?
B) a closet rock hound?
C) a pun detective who will go to any length to "dig up" material? or
D) really desperate for basketball to start this fall?
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Bard --
You forgot to include "E) All of the above"
And I may not be getting any basketball for a while, since I may be physically incapacitated for a few weeks. It's enough to drive someone like me to insomnia, closet rocks and desperate puns.
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I hope you're ok...
Another book sort of along the same lines is Gun, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond. The basic question he asks is "How were a handful of Spanish soldiers able to travel across an ocean and defeat tens of thousands of powerful Incans and why didn't the Incans come to Europe first to defeat the Spanish?" His starts with the assumption that all humans have equal abilities and then explains the disparities between various cultures on a purely environmental basis. He does a good job making his case.
Mon Aug 12, 2002, 11:38am
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