by Tomas Munita

New York Times:

[&#8230-] In his haunting chapter about Easter Island, he weighed the data — radiocarbon dating, charcoal and pollen analysis and botanical and archaeological surveys — and concluded that the inhabitants had mined the forests to extinction, setting off a cataclysm. What, Dr. Diamond wondered in an often cited passage, was going through the mind of the Easter Islander who cut the last tree? [&#8230-]

[Case Studies of Civilization Decline:]

Read the previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:

• Michael Gerber – The E-Myth Revisited
• Changes to TradeFair prediction markets
• Eric Zitzewitz, laughing all the way to the bank
• Michael Bloomberg: I’m not running… but, beware, I am a King maker.
• Meet the 3 Iowa Electronic Markets co-founders: George Neumann, Forrest Nelson and Robert Forsythe.
• When Markets Beat The Polls – Scientific American Magazine
• GLOBAL COOLING