Two new lectures in the series on global demography have been uploaded on the GeoCurrents YouTube channel.  The first, number 5 in the series, looks at the ancient world, and the second (#6) looks at late antiquity and the early medieval period (roughly 400-750 CE). The second of these lectures focuses on the Mediterranean world, […] The post Two New Demography Lectures Uploaded on YouTube appeared first on GeoCurrents.

The previous GeoCurrents post examined critical rankings of the best Bob Dylan songs, which I graphed in terms of Dylan’s age when he wrote the songs in question. In this last of three posts on Dylan, the same technique is used for other rankings of his songs. The first graph depicts Dylan’s song that have […] The post Does Creativity Decline with Age? The Case of Bob Dylan (Part 2) appeared first on GeoCurrents.

In a recent lecture on declining birthrates, I mentioned pronatalist worries about a corresponding decline in our ability to solve problems and address crises, due mainly to the aging of the population. Creative thinking, according to this argument, is primarily an attribute of youth. Most environmentalists find this thesis unconvincing if not absurd. Creativity, they […] The post Does Creativity Decline with Age? The Case of Bob Dylan appeared first on GeoCurrents.

The fourth GeoCurrents lecture on global demography has been uploaded on YouTube and can be found here. It examines population issues that arose after the development of agriculture, as well as those following the initiation of horse-based nomadic pastoralism. It first looks at the spread of neolithic farming into Europe, noting that the expanding agricultural […] The post Demography Lecture # 4: Historical Population Patterns and Processes with the Spread of Agriculture and Nomadic Pastoralism appeared first on GeoCurrents.