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Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry
Dwarkesh Podcast
The Wizard and the Prophet Question
The Wizard and the prophet is a new podcast series. The first episode airs tonight at 9 p.m. ET on BBC Radio 4. This week, Jarrett ponders whether or not norman borlaw would have saved billions of lives if he hadn't discovered shortening wheat stalks 20 years earlier. Do you agree? Is it likely that in the absencef one scientist, some other scientist would have been able to do this same thing? Or are we talking about two different people who could have done similar things but for different reasons?
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