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Sugar can also be useful as a substitute for the fuel source within gunpowder. Everyone forgets that these trade routes also were protecting potassium nitrate / saltpeter mining operations. https://t.co/TWJdN0dIKV https://t.co/4WjNq8eyhd https://t.co/VyS86cDLKF
Bird shit turned into fire arms.https://t.co/DS40Gk2Wv3
You can grow your own sugar beets.https://t.co/BWL49dSAU1https://t.co/HKMIbfu4Mx
In farming, forces behind the trend was Cost gravity. Amplification of output due to cheap fertilizer. Mining bird shit, then synthetics / mining mountains. In service economy, driving force is also price gravity. Technology lowers barriers = low friction = cheap effort.
The history of the world can be described in terms of trade routes and soil.https://t.co/KCdLoEvrjX
No one really gets it. I have only understood but a sliver.https://t.co/IOZ5GS4t7t
I literally have "Guns, Germs, and Steel" on my desk sitting next to Emile Durkheim's collected works. My specific interest was trying to figure out why Sociology seems to ignore biological framing of the mind. It's really cool to see someone else is exploring it like me!
Unwinding the clock and imagining alternate futures.https://t.co/3mZxhd0ROi
Tracking the spread of ideas as they creep across land, sea, and air.https://t.co/f2B0byOmHt
Studying Darwin's early childhood and collegiate career, you quickly see how Museums influenced his early habits of collecting and identifying species of plants. A cultural interest in fossils and working in museums influenced how he was able to reach conclusions that he made.
I know the name of one of the technicians that likely worked on the factory that build the GPS guided tractor that planted the cotton in America soil.https://t.co/BpGWQHcz18
I, T-shirt.https://t.co/cA5vtePHxS
One grain of corn at a time.https://t.co/yKgy7tkBAz
We are blind to the labor that goes into the food we eat, the wood that houses us. The microbes that accumulate iron that build our car.https://t.co/KjAaqlqPoe
Geologic Time.https://t.co/ptITnCJsqYI don't want to see the world from a bird's eye view. I wonder what it is like to see as a god.
A death march. I see a death march.https://t.co/e1iuLEutpp