At my other blog 10 questions for Peter Turchin. Turchin is an ecologist-turned-quantitative historian.
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Next Monday at NESCent:
When: Monday November 16, 2009, 10-11:30am
Where: NESCent, 2024 W. Main St., Durham, NC 27705, Erwin Mill Bldg, Suite A103
A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record:
Fortune favours the brave; but the brave are motivated by favours of another kind:
Reading Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational I was struck and concerned by his data which suggested that once social norms of reciprocity break down it is difficult to regenerate them.