<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><br><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Cambridge Forum<br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>www.cambridgeforum.org<br><br><font size="3"><i><b>Release </b></i></font> January 2, 2013<br><br><font size="3"><b>Jared Diamond Discusses The World Until Yesterday at Cambridge Forum</b></font><br><br>On <b>Wednesday, January 16, 2013</b>, Cambridge Forum hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning author <b>Jared Diamond</b>
discussing his latest book The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn
from Traditional Societies? The forum takes place at 7:00 pm at the
First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue in Harvard Square.
Dr. Tim Weiskel moderates.<br><br>In his most personal book yet, best-selling author <b>Jared Diamond</b>
reflects on the profound differences between so-called “traditional”
societies and our modern industrialized society, differences in
everything from the way we count to the way we meet strangers. Today’s
traditional societies represent a window onto the human world as it was
until yesterday, measured against the six million years of human
evolution. While we wouldn’t want to give up running water or electric
light, Diamond makes the case that we can still learn from traditional
societies. What do they have to teach us? How can they help us make a
better future for the world? <br><br>Jared Diamond is a professor of
geography at UCLA. He is also known for his academic work in
evolutionary biology, ornithology, environmental history, and
linguistics. Among his many awards are the National Medal of Science,
the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Japan’s Cosmos Prize, a
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Lewis Thomas Prize honoring the
Scientist as Poet, presented by Rockefeller University. Diamond’s
previous books include<i> Why Is Sex Fun?; The Third Chimpanzee; Collapse</i>; and<i> Guns, Germs, and Steel,</i> which won the Pulitzer Prize.<br><br>Cambridge
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