What are you currently reading?

Yeah, more in line with that article. He's saying that as hunter foragers we had a very varied diet, and because of that, a varied physical life, as well as more mentally stimulating. We couldn't over populate because traveling with babies is hard, so we'd space them out. If one food source had a bad year we'd turn to another.

When we started farming (obviously a gradual process), it meant we relied on a much narrower diet, and if it had a bad year people starved. Instead of varying activities we now have to spend whole days weeding fields and carrying water. Apparently, studying skeletons indicates that this is when we started suffering hernias, slipped discs, etc.
Also, though we could produce more food in one area, this is when we started having more children, offsetting the ease of more food.

Those are the main points, the book is more thorough. Yuval Noah Harari is the author.

 

Thats an interesting topic, and I tend to agree.

It's fun to imagine what life would be like if we were still hunter gatherers. Would we have advanced technologically to the same extent?

I think I might add this book to my to read list

 

Highly recommended.
I'm only 1/4 through it... It's about a lot more than just that topic.

 

And yes, I was thinking about this and what form it would take.

 

I definitely disagree about the agricultural revolution not being a good t hing for humans. Just inventarize what you dig in life. Or what makes it bearable.

 

Highly unlikely. As usual the best option lies in a mix of both. But developing agriculture paved the way for more time to invest in other stuff

 

Architectural books to help me with the design of a complex staircase. LOL
Retirement is supposed to make life simpler, but at least I wont die of boredom.

 

Like every advance in technology, it failed because it was used for all the wrong reasons.
As a child, my parents spent 50% of their income on food. Today, the figure is below 20% and all this has done is to inflate the price of property.

 

Introduction to Terrariums, a step by step guide
1972 Nash Publishing
Library of Congress 72-81856

No barcode
No USBN

 

Okay, well I have no idea, I haven't done my own research. The information is from the book, which cites sources but I haven't got it right here to check them.

 

I took a book from this sweet little sideways library today.

A book on state parks across America. It was published in the 80s so what I really wanna know is, is the rope swing pictured in Tishomingo Park still there?

It has a name and date handwritten in it. I love love used books for this reason. You always find little treats in them. I noticed another book I picked up recently is inscribed - "Remember when we went to the bookstore and you were so sad and I bought you this book and it made you so happy?"

 

I just finished the Rigate series by David Gemmell. It was wonderful. The best I’ve read from him.

 

Oh what book was it?

I am so glad you took the picture.
So these really do exist

 

Anyways, I read a few short stories by Dostoevsky last night.

I'm not into it.

 

I give up. I have to finish.
It's looking at me, mocking me.

 

I finally rented "Gendered Worlds" for the upcoming sociology course... It's an electronic version. I have it for 180 days if memory serves.