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Two Additional Global Demography Lectures Uploaded Two additional lectures on global demography have been uploaded on the GeoCurrents YouTube channel....
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Two additional lectures on global demography have been uploaded on the GeoCurrents YouTube channel. The first covers the period from 700 to 1500, focusing on the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century and its repercussions.  The second lecture covers the period from 1500 to...
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Two New Demography Lectures Uploaded on YouTube Two new lectures in the series on global demography have been uploaded on the GeoCurrents YouTube...
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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...
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Does Creativity Decline with Age? The Case of Bob Dylan (Part 2) The previous GeoCurrents post examined critical rankings of the best Bob Dylan songs, which I...
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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...
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Third Global Demography Video Available The third lecture in the current series on global demography has been recorded and uploaded on the...
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The third lecture in the current series on global demography has been recorded and uploaded on the GeoCurrents YouTube channel and can be found here. This lecture covers demographic patterns and processes from the origin of modern humans some 200,000 years ago to the initial...
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Does Creativity Decline with Age? The Case of Bob Dylan In a recent lecture on declining birthrates, I mentioned pronatalist worries about a corresponding...
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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...
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Demography Lecture # 4: Historical Population Patterns and Processes with the Spread of Agriculture... The fourth GeoCurrents lecture on global demography has been uploaded on YouTube and can be found...
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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...
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New Demography Video: Pro-Natalism vs. Anti-Natalism The second GeoCurrents YouTube video has been posted, which examines the current debate between...
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The second GeoCurrents YouTube video has been posted, which examines the current debate between anti-natalists, who think that the world is severely overpopulated and therefore want to reduce birthrates, and pro-natalist, who are concerned about plunging fertility and therefore...
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The New York Times Maps Trump as Having Defeated Biden in 2024 I have long been a fan of the political cartography of the New York Times and have often used its...
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I have long been a fan of the political cartography of the New York Times and have often used its maps in my courses and blog posts. But this year I am not so impressed. Consider, for example, the map detail that I have posted below, taken from a full-page cartographic exercise...
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Highway 61 Revisited Revisited in 2024: Bob Dylan, Geography, and the Blues Watching the superb and sublimely acted recent film A Complete Unknown has inspired me to revisit...
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Watching the superb and sublimely acted recent film A Complete Unknown has inspired me to revisit the songs of Bob Dylan. In doing so, I have once again been impressed with his geographical vision, marked by effective invocations of place. His frequent use of place names in...
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New GeoCurrents Lecture Series on Global Demography I have posted the first of an estimated 16 illustrated lectures on global population on the...
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I have posted the first of an estimated 16 illustrated lectures on global population on the GeoCurrents YouTube channel. These lectures are derived from a class that I am currently teaching in Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program (adult education) called “Population...
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Declining Human Fertility and Urbanization in the United States A recent GeoCurrents post on Utah’s declining birth rate included maps of the Total Fertility Rate...
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A recent GeoCurrents post on Utah’s declining birth rate included maps of the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of the U.S. by state in 2008 and 2022. Comparing the state-by-state data from these two years yields a map of total fertility change during this period (posted below). As this...