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Welcome to Science Thought, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting June 13th.

I'm Steve Murski. This week on the podcast, renowned scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jared

Diamond, plus we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. A couple of

weeks ago, Diamond was the keynote speaker at an event for the Organization Conservation

International. At the American Museum of Natural History, I went,

here's an edited version of his talk. The president of Conservation International,

Russell Mitremeyer, did a nice job introducing Diamond, so I'll let him do it again here.

It now gives me great pleasure to introduce tonight's featured speaker, Dr. Jared Diamond.

Jared is a truly remarkable individual, and he has himself an increasingly endangered species

in today's world, a real Renaissance man. He's a professor of geography at UCLA, a professor

of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine, a world-class ornithologist, an explorer,

and one of the world's authorities on the biodiversity of the fascinating island of New Guinea,

one of CI's high biodiversity wilderness areas. He's led numerous National Geographic Society

expeditions, many to the isolated, unexplored mountain ranges of the island of New Guinea,

and as a dedicated conservationist, he has designed, comprehensive national park plans for the governments of Indonesia,

Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.

But most of you probably know Jared through his books, because he's also a world-renowned, best-selling author

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