#2549 - Jared Diamond
A Mongol empire gets a boost from unusually wet weather, a translation can turn a sweet potato into a feces-filled insult, and Korean readers get one of history’s great usability upgrades. Human history is full of brilliant people catching a very weird break.
The right leader, the right moment
How religions scale
Translation can start a fight
Writing: reinvented, lost, redesigned
Culture makes the ordinary strange
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The Joe Rogan Experience — #2549 - Jared Diamond
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