Fred Spier

Big history, the biosphere, our common future. Senior Lecturer Big History em. @UvA_Amsterdam, biochemist, cult. anthropologist, social historian, peruanista

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Podcast | Fred Spier, "How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views… #bighistory #granhistoria #biosphere ⁦@CRCPress⁩ https://t.co/JMcHlh9Lm5

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@ONU_es Y entender como funciona: https://t.co/uarg1NXOQ1

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@robbertleusink Ever heard of the Curie family?

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@Hasselblad Wasn’t it US astronaut Walter Schirra who first took a Hasselblad camera into space, his own initiative, on board his Mercury flight in 1962? That’s how it started. https://t.co/yA43RWqLvW

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When I read the Club of Rome’s 'Limits to Growth' report in 1973, I concluded that if their numbers were reasonably correct, we would see around 2030 increasingly fierce competition for increasingly scarce resources, especially oil. That is what we are seeing now, I think.

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Remains very relevant today, or so it seems to me, almost one year after publication.

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Just out, my take on: "The State of the World Today and Considering its Future from a Global Historical Perspective": https://t.co/bWcIAads4j

In: Revista de Estudios Globales: https://t.co/fZdqFuaAoQ

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Just out, my take on: "The State of the World Today and Considering its Future from a Global Historical Perspective": https://t.co/bWcIAads4j

In: Revista de Estudios Globales: https://t.co/fZdqFuaAoQ

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‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body | Plastics | The Guardian https://t.co/I9bo4XpDpp

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@histories_arch Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam

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@konstructivizm Totally agree, well described! Saw them in action (from a distance) as an adolescent. Impressed me then, still impress me now.

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@MCCCANM What about the on-off button?

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[2512.09643] An [Earth lower] Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions [and increased risk of catastrophic consequences] https://t.co/VETxyTFLum

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@Turbinetraveler This movie cannot possibly be of the first flight, because there are two pilots. Orville Wright alone piloted the first successful flight. During the first flight one photo was taken, no movie.

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The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show | Scientific American https://t.co/yVZkEm1oM1

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@BLackgold_5 Those two jet fighters landing on the carrier cannot possibly be from the 1960s.

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‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’ https://t.co/bhgsiDJP2G

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@JuanSanchez0x0 The captain may have flown the plane to the remotest point from land in the Indian Ocean, and have crashed it there hard, in doing so scattering it into a great many pieces. If so, no large remains will be found. This possible scenario fits the available empirical evidence.

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@IntEngineering The captain may have flown the plane to the remotest point from land in the Indian Ocean, and have crashed it there hard, in doing so scattering it into a great many pieces. If so, no large remains will be found. This possible scenario fits the available empirical evidence.

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@ConversationUS Excellent study. Looks like the work of rivaling (family?) groups to me.

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Drones, physics and rats: Studies show how the people of Rapa Nui made and moved the giant statues – and what caused the island’s deforestation https://t.co/ed5P8mJoju

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@JorgeSeniorUac Me pregunto si James Scott ha leído nuestros libros de big history, parece que no.