Book Review: The Arctic Hysterias
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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The Gigantic Trap and the Eskimos
Folks has a lot of horror stories about even traditional Eskimo cultures. He attributes this to ancient polar winters, where there will be too little food and too many mouths to feed. This sounds plausible to me, but I don't know how to square it with the official Greenland data suggesting low suicide rates at the very beginning of contact.
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