I'll be picking up this issue of Archaeology Magazine

[james_davis_nicoll]

Diamond on the Carpet

Archaeologists think Guns, Germs, and Steel author Jared Diamond misrepresents the downfall of ancient civilizations to score points for today's environmental movement. What does their criticism of the Pulitzer Prize winning biologist tell us about his biases, and how does it reveal their own?

Nicked from talheres

Comments

Re: link

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I live to entertain....

Re: arriving when a conversation is almost over

[tsm-in-toronto.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.

How that you've fixed it, as I've only just got here, you've got me wondering what the amusing Oopserlink was.

Re: arriving when a conversation is almost over

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Rather than memorize the proper forms to use, I have a template that I cut and paste into an article, after which in theory I put in the url and a suitable comment.

A lot of the time, I forget to include the url. (insert URL within quotes here)

Re: ... almost over

[tsm-in-toronto.livejournal.com]

Oh.

I thought maybe you'd gone past the end (http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm), and fallen over the edge (http://www.wpclipart.com/cartoon/_falling_cow_zone.png).

Re: arriving when a conversation is almost over

[laetitia-apis.livejournal.com]

It was the all-important element of surprise: I mouse-overed expecting some subtle, hard-to-see error, probably one that I couldn't spot at all without knowing what the URL was supposed to be -- and understood exactly what had happened at the first glance.

Joy