But the Easter Island was the bedrock of that book, and there weren't any people there, correct?

I mean, when he says imagine being the last guy to cut down the last tree, that's Shel Silverstein level there.

Neat! Thank you! It's fantastic to have a contrary look at his assertions. What are a few that stood to you?

Salt

Author Jared Diamond might have some notes about trade routes, especially the book Collapse.

Many of the North American roads and trade routes were formed by migrating animals who traveled to find salt. Some of these routes are major roads and highways now.

That's Teflon

The bigger shock would be if it all suddenly stopped. Imagine if global free trade suddenly wasn't free or secure. Which could be a big problem soon if globalization continues to retract.

Using new machine learning techniques, researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF), in collaboration with a team at IBM Research, have developed a virtual molecular library of thousands of "command sentences" for cells, based on combinations of "words" that guided engineered immune cells to seek out and tirelessly kill cancer cells.

In the new study, Cambridge scientists discovered not just a new mechanism for metastasis, but completely recontextualized its role. It’s long been thought that metastasis was an abnormal process that arises in cancer, but the new study found that it’s a process used by healthy cells as well – cancer just hijacks it for its own purposes.