From:
Norman Watts <Norman_Watts@zzzzzzz>
Date:
Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:23:07 -0500
Subject:
Art and Numbers
On Feb 23, 2006, at 8:41 PM, Kent and Karen Ivey wrote:
Quoted text begins.Right now I am digesting Guns, Germs, And Steel..
End of quote.
I once heard Diamond give an Honorary Lecture here at NIH. Before a
large auditorium, without any props or slides (except a handful of
close-ups of human faces from around the world -but to which he did
not directly refer) Diamond walked away from the podium and
summarized his book, which summarizes several thousand years of human
history. Extemporaneously, he listed dates, place, species. He never
failed the pace. It was a stunning performance. It was the first and
only time that I have Wanted to stand up and applaud a speaker.
Afterwards people stood in lines to have him autograph his book. His
"Collapse" is next on my list...
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