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Chase on Being A Dad + Jared Diamond Interview

Nationals Talk - April 07, 2020 10:19 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 185 ratings
Chase is back from paternity leave and gives an update on what life is like as a new father, especially in the current climate. Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal joins Tim & Todd to talk about his new book "Swing Kings", if fans will boo the Astro when MLB resumes, and who he thi...

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Baseball and BBQ Episode #57: Interview with Jared Diamond, author of Swing Kings

Baseball and BBQ - April 04, 2020 12:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratings
This week, Baseball and BBQ talks to Wall Street Journal, National Baseball Writer and author of the new book, Swing Kings - Jared Diamond.   This is the inside story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution. Told superbly by Jared Diamond.   Swing Kings is on sale now and available in Hardcover, ebo...

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Combining Walt Disney World & Baseball with Jared Diamond - BOGP 1607

Be Our Guest WDW Podcast - February 24, 2020 02:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
It's becoming a tradition here on the show!  We are joined by Jared Diamond, who covers Major League Baseball for the Wall Street Journal to talk Spring Training in Florida and combining that with a great Walt Disney World vacation!  Now that the Braves are no longer at ESPN Wide World of Sports...

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Jared Diamond Interview (12/20/19)

Swings & Mrs. - December 20, 2019 21:48 - 25 minutes
National baseball write Jared Diamond joins the gang to talk minor league baseball. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Zack's Destination, Problems In Houston & "Swing Kings" w/ Jared Diamond of the WSJ | Simply Amazin'

Simply Amazin' - A New York Mets Podcast - November 27, 2019 18:33 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
In this episode of Simply Amazin', Tim Ryder of Metsmerized Online is joined by former Mets beat writer Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal to discuss the Mets approach to the off-season, Zack Wheeler's potential landing spot, the ongoing investigation of the Houston Astros and a his new boo...

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9. Wheels Down PLUS "Swing Kings" w/ Jared Diamond of the WSJ | Simply Amazin'

Simply Amazin' - A New York Mets Podcast - November 27, 2019 18:33 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
In this episode of Simply Amazin', Tim Ryder of Metsmerized Online is joined by former Mets beat writer Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal to discuss the Mets approach to the off-season, Zack Wheeler's potential landing spot, the ongoing investigation of the Houston Astros and a his new boo...


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Jared Diamond Talks World Series, MLB News, and Sports Journalism Career!

Sports Talk Chicago - November 06, 2019 22:54 ★★★★★ - 832 ratings
Jared Diamond, national MLB writer for The Wall Street Journal and author of Swing Kings, joins the show! We recapped the Nationals’ stunning World Series win, and examined the underdog mentality that led to their success. We also took a look at the beginning of MLB free agency, while also, […]

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Jared Diamond

City Arts & Lectures - July 21, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 314 ratings
Jared Diamond, the author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” discusses his new book about the rise and fall of civilizations around the globe. "Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change" combines history, geography, economic, and cultural analysis. Its broad scope and vast historical ...

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Jared Diamond, academic and author

Desert Island Discs - June 30, 2019 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Jared Diamond is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, although his interests and expertise range far wider, from physiology to ornithology, history to ecology and from anthropology to evolutionary biology. His 1997 book, Guns, Germs and Steel, asked why Eurasian c...

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Jared Diamond

TALKING POLITICS - May 30, 2019 00:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 619 ratings
We talk to the author of Guns, Germs and Steel about his new book on nations in crisis. Jared Diamond argues that personal crises are a good way of thinking about national ones. He tells us about one of his own personal crises and we see whether the lessons really apply to politics. Plus we disc...

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Jared Diamond on countries in crisis

History Extra podcast - May 16, 2019 14:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
Historian, author and geographer Jared Diamond discusses how ideas from psychology can help us understand how countries have coped with traumas through history. historyextra.com/podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastch...

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194. Jared Diamond (Historian) – Look inward, Nation

Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - May 11, 2019 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratings
Imagine yourself a German citizen the day after the end of World War II. Much of your city is bombed to ruins. A good part of the population is dead. The Nazi ideology that has dominated your nation for the past decade has been repudiated as definitively as Bambi in “Bambi Meets Godzilla”. Basica...

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Amanpour: Paul Mozur, Jared Diamond and Maddie Corman

Amanpour - May 07, 2019 19:38 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratings
Paul Mozur, a Technology Reporter for The New York Times, discusses China's surveillance system and how it is impacting the country's Muslim minority. Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, discusses his latest work "Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis" and why some countrie...

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65. Jared Diamond — Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

The Michael Shermer Show - May 07, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 361 ratings
For this special edition of the Science Salon Podcast Dr. Shermer took a camera crew to Jared Diamond’s home in Los Angeles for an especially intimate portrait of the man and his theories. You won’t want to miss this conversation, one of the best we’ve yet recorded, with one of the most interest...

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Jared Diamond on Nations in Crisis

Kickass News - Afar - May 06, 2019 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, scientist, and renowned polymath Jared Diamond reveals that many of the factors in how individuals cope with personal crises can also predict how countries survive national crises.  He profiles six nations in transition in his new book Upheaval: Turning Points for ...

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Player Development with Keith Lieppman and Labor Issues with Jared Diamond

A’s Plus - February 21, 2019 01:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratings
Keith Lieppman and Jared Diamond. Lieppman, the A's director of player development, discusses up-and-coming players such as Jesus Luzardo and Lazarito Armenteros and talks about his own disastrous first day as an A's player. Diamond, the Wall Street Journal's baseball writer, talks about the A's ...

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JARED DIAMOND 2005 Interview COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SUCCEED

Free Forum with Terrence McNally - August 25, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
In light of the Cohen and Manafort verdicts and the overturning of Obama Clean Air policy of regulating power plant emissions, let’s listen to my 2005 conversation with JARED DIAMOND regarding his book COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SUCCEED. In his earlier Pulitzer-prize win...

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Ep 294 - MMA Saturday Sessions: Jared Diamond

Mixed Mental Arts - December 09, 2017 04:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 341 ratings
We don’t know just where we’re headed. But we know Saturdays can feel weird. Technically, it's one of your chill days. At the same time, you promised Mom you'd cut her grass - and you have that thing with your girlfriend on the other side of town. Saturday Sessions are for you, my friend. It’...

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WSJ's Jared Diamond/New York Mets (Diamond #6)

Sports With Friends - July 06, 2015 01:01 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 892 ratings
Every guest is a friend. Or a friend of a friend. (We play Jewish Geography)

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30 Jared Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee

Inquiring Minds - April 18, 2014 01:04 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 821 ratings
Jared Diamond, author of a suite of massive, bestselling books about the precarious state of our civilization (including the Pulitzer-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel), calls himself "cautiously optimistic" about the future of humanity. What does that mean? "My estimate of our chances that we will...

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Ep96 - Jared Diamond

Mixed Mental Arts - January 23, 2014 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 341 ratings
Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991), Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize), Collapse (2005) and The World Until Yesterday (2012). Originally trained in physiology, Diamond's work is known fo...

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How societies can grow old better | Jared Diamond

TED Health - November 25, 2013 16:16 - Video ★★★★ - 957 ratings
There's an irony behind the latest efforts to extend human life: It's no picnic to be an old person in a youth-oriented society. Older people can become isolated, lacking meaningful work and low on funds. In this intriguing talk, Jared Diamond looks at how many different societies treat their eld...

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Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, & Steel

London Real - October 20, 2013 16:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the International Bestsellers “Guns, Germs, & Steel” .

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Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday

Point of Inquiry - May 08, 2013 04:17 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratings
Note: You can watch this episode on Youtube. In this special episode of Point of Inquiry, Chris and Indre speak with the Pulitzer Prize winning Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel. Dr. Diamond is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles and has traveled e...

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Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, “Natural Experiments of History” (Harvard UP, 2010)

New Books in History - January 20, 2010 22:18 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratings
I remember telling my wife, the mathematician, that historians typically work on one time and place their entire careers. If you begin, say, as a historian of Russia in the 1600s (as I did), you are likely to end as a historian of Russia in the 1600s (I didn’t, but that’s another story). “You’ve ...

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Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, “Natural Experiments of History” (Harvard UP, 2010)

New Books Network - January 20, 2010 22:18 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
I remember telling my wife, the mathematician, that historians typically work on one time and place their entire careers. If you begin, say, as a historian of Russia in the 1600s (as I did), you are likely to end as a historian of Russia in the 1600s (I didn’t, but that’s another story). “You’ve ...

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Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, “Natural Experiments of History” (Harvard UP, 2010)

New Books in World Affairs - January 20, 2010 22:18 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 24 ratings
I remember telling my wife, the mathematician, that historians typically work on one time and place their entire careers. If you begin, say, as a historian of Russia in the 1600s (as I did), you are likely to end as a historian of Russia in the 1600s (I didn’t, but that’s another story). “You’ve ...

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Jared Diamond on the State of the World Environment

Science Talk - June 13, 2007 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 579 ratings
In this episode, biologist, ecologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jared Diamond discusses the environmental state of the world and the relationship between the environment and economics and politics in remarks at a recent benefit for the organization Conservation International. We'll also h...

Books written by Jared Diamond

Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Jared Diamond

176 pages - ★★★★ - 4.26K ratings

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal
Jared Diamond

407 pages - ★★★★ - 57 ratings