Cliodynamics in Popular MediaNovember 2009 Historical Dynamics (in Russian: Историческая динамика) by Valery Tyrnov An article about cliodynamics in the Russian popular science journal Science and Technology. PDF October 2009 Die Presse on Cliodynamics The influential Austrian newspaper Die Presse discusses cliodynamics based 0n materials posted on this site and uses our PNAS article as an example of how one might do history as science. Die Presse article (in German) October 2009 Our PNAS Article on Roman Censuses and Coin Hoards in the Popular Press Several major world newspapers discussed our results: New York Times (USA), Spiegel (Germany), Standaard (Belgium), and Folha de S. Paulo (Brazil). Other media that discussed it include N-TV (the German TV channel for financial news), ORF (Austrian Public TV), and Echo Moskvy (a Russian radio station). The article in Science includes a rejoinder from a proponent of the high count hypothesis (which we reject in our paper). The story was featured in the science sections of Yahoo, Yahoo-UK, Lenta and Infox (Russia), and EuropaPress (Spain). Other web-based sources that covered the story are Wired, EurekAlert, and NSF News (the latter includes a video interview). The story also appeared in a variety of popular science magazines and web sites. The ones I know about are: FirstScience, WorldScience, ScienceDaily, e!ScienceNews, Wissenschaft-Online, Epoc, Huscarl, Gallileo, Elementy, and MultKor. Last, but not least, is our own UConn Today, which perhaps lacks the wide readership of New York Times or Spiegel, but was the only publication that managed not to garble any aspects of the story. July 2009 Long-Term Oscillations in Population Numbers of Human Societies (in Russian: Долгосрочные колебания численности населения в исторических обществах). This is a reworked and expanded translation of my 2009 review for the Russian popular science website The Elements. Go here. January 2009 Demography and Political Crises: the Historical Aspect (in Russian: Демография и политические кризисы. Исторический аспект). An on-line interview with Peter Turchin on the web site of the journal Science and Life. The text of the interview is here. November 2008 On the Threshold of Great Discoveries (in Russian: На пороге великих открытий). My interview for Science & Technology in the Russian Federation: click here October 2008 A Science of History? My talk at the conference Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark. The video of the talk can be watched here On the Eve of a Great Revolution (in Russian: Накануне великой революции). My interview in the Expert magazine: click here September 2008 Ursachen der Krise: Kollaps aus dem Nichts (Causes of the Crisis: Collapse from Nowhere) An article in Sueddeutsche Zeitung mentions my work in the context of nonlinear dynamical approaches to the study of collapse. August 2008 Cliodynamics in the Blogosphere "Cliodynamics, a science of history?" a blog by Massimo Pigliucci, with my responses "Cliodynamics, the rise & fall of empires and asabiya" a blog on Gene Expression. July 2008 Editor's Summary (Nature, 3 July 2008) "For much of human history we have plenty of facts. The job of historians is to select and arrange those facts to support a range of subjective interpretations. Peter Turchin thinks that at that rate, we are doomed to repeat our mistakes. Instead, he says, we need unifying theories. We should use the data to construct general explanations, and test them on all the data, not a subset chosen to make a point. To learn from history, first we must make it science." Can History Become a Real Science? (in Russian: Может ли история стать настоящей наукой?) A report on my Nature essay by Alexander Markov at the popular science site The Elements. To read, click here Clio with a Calculator (In Russian: Клио с калькулятором). A news article by Yury Drize in Poisk, the popular science magazine of the Russian Academy of Sciences. To read, click here February 2007 Mathematics and History (In Russian: Математика может оценить движущие силы истории и морали). My interview on Radio Liberty. The Rise and Fall of Empires – Cycles of War, Peace, and Again War (in Polish: Imperiów wzloty i upadki – czyli wojna, pokój i znów wojna): a review by Piotr Tryjanowski in the Polish magazine Nauka (Science) read the text January 2007 Commentary on my work in the American Conservative Steve Sailer argues that multiculturalism doesn’t make vibrant communities but defensive ones. Go to the article June 2006 The New Scientist on Overconfidence in War, with my comments Roxanne Khamsi reports on the recent study by Dominic Johnson (Princeton University) and colleagues go to the article (if not available on NewScientist.com, click here)
April 2006 The commentary on Evolution of Cooperative Strategies from First Principles on the German Radio (here) March 2006 Commentary on my work in the Russian magazine Politichesky Klass (The Political Class) Nikolai Rozov discusses the implications of asabiya for modern Russian politics (see the text in Russian) February 2006 A very nice review of cliodynamics in the French popular science magazine Sciences et Avenir. The PDF of the article (2.6 MB!) is here. October 2005 A review of War and Peace and War in The New Scientist by Mark Buchanan "Are there 'laws of history', patterns or regularities that would let us make predictions? Karl Marx thought he saw a steady progression in history, leading inevitably to a future of world government by the workers. British historian Arnold Toynbee saw cyclic patterns in the rise and fall of civilisations. But most historians today think that Marx and Toynbee were deluded, and that the pursuit of historical laws is, in general, a fool's errand. Refreshingly, Peter Turchin doesn't agree." Mark Buchanan's latest book is Small World full text of the review September 2005 Publicity associated with War and Peace and War: in TO BHMA (Greece), and Haaretz (Israel). August 2005 Advance publicity for War and Peace and War War and Peace and War is not yet out but is already getting press: in the August 25 issue of the Guardian, Empire of the Sums by Philip Ball. The article was also reprinted by the Sydney Morning Herald, which gave it a rather sensationalist title: The US Collapses: A Scenario. There is also a quick review in the Publishers Weekly (here it is). |