Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2005)

I'd read Guns, Germs, and Steel a while back and enjoyed it for how it attempted to look at history on such a high level. I was looking for something to read and found Jared Diamond's book Collapse.

While Guns, Germs, and Steel was largely about how civilizations rose to power, Collapse was about how civilizations waned and fell.

Spoilers, I guess?

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Cool stuff I saw - January 31, 2020

This is the first edition of "cool stuff I saw." I don't know how often these are going to be posted, but I'm going for once a month. It will also depend on how much cool stuff I saw during the month, but I'll play it by ear.

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