Jared Diamond

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"The one that I admire as a person is Chouinard of Patagonia. For him, as with John Wooden, Patagonia is a model for life. He emphasized having his staff have time off. He emphasized Patagonia being sustainable."

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"Paul and his wife Anne, the book The Population Bomb calls attention to the danger of population growth... So to blame Paul Ehrlich for getting it wrong, no, he got it right, but he got it right in a broader sense than the idiots who attack him are willing to admit."

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"My first memory was the first photo that the US Army released of dead American soldiers. It was a famous cover of Life magazine. Two American soldiers dead face down on Buna-Gona Beach in New Guinea."

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"One involves doing what's called ANOVA, analysis of variance. Analysis of variance applied to sports shows that roughly 15 to 30% of the variance in sports success is due to the coach."

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"Here's one of the world's great modern scientists, and his goddamn Wikipedia entry instead harps on his book, The Population Bomb, and says it didn't prove correct."