Carl Lipo's guest appearances

Carl Lipo

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Web Masters

Philip Rosedale

Mark Cuban

Daniel Kahneman

Steven Pinker

Dorie Clark

Tiffany Shlain

Peter Diamandis

David Eagleman

Michael Pollan

Jared Diamond

Lawrence Lessig

Jane McGonigal

Melissa Alexander

Sara Seager

Rick Doblin

OwlTail

What do archaeology and cookie recipes have in common? In truth, not much. But that didn't stop a group of archaeology graduate students from the University of Washington from joining together to create CookieRecipe.com. CookieRecipe grew so popular that the grad students started building other similar sites, like PieRecipe.com, CakeRepice.com, ChickenRecipe.com, and ThanksgivingRecipe.com.Eventually, their network of recipe sites got so popular that they decided to combine it into one site for all their recipes. They called that site Allrecipes.com, and it's still still one of the most popular recipe websites in the world.On this episode of Web Masters, one of those archeology grad students shares the story of how he and his friends built Allrecipes. His name is Carl Lipo, and, despite helping build an enormously popular website, he decided to stick with archaeology, and he's now an archeology professor.For a complete transcript of the episode, click here.

What do archaeology and cookie recipes have in common? In truth, not much. But that didn't stop a group of archaeology graduate students from the University of Washington from joining together to create <a href="http://CookieRecipe.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CookieRecipe.com</a>. CookieRecipe grew so popular that the grad students started building other similar sites, like <a href="http://PieRecipe.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PieRecipe.com</a>, <a href="http://CakeRepice.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CakeRepice.com</a>, <a href="http://ChickenRecipe.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ChickenRecipe.com</a>, and <a href="http://ThanksgivingRecipe.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ThanksgivingRecipe.com</a>.Eventually, their network of recipe sites got so popular that they decided to combine it into one site for all their recipes. They called that site <a href="http://Allrecipes.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allrecipes.com</a>, and it's still still one of the most popular recipe websites in the world.On this episode of Web Masters, one of those archeology grad students shares the story of how he and his friends built Allrecipes. His name is Carl Lipo, and, despite helping build an enormously popular website, he decided to stick with archaeology, and he's now an archeology professor.For a complete transcript of the episode, <a href="https://latonas.com/blog/web-masters-episode-86-carl-lipo/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here</a>.

Carl Lipo @ Allrecipes: The Archaeologist Who Taught People to Cook

Terry Hunt

Was it ecocide?  The collapse of the mini-civilization on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has long been considered one of the great Green morality tales.  Once the people there cut down the last tree, story goes, they were doomed.  Their famous statues were an arms race that completed the exhaustion of their all-too-finite resources.  Moral of the story: Easter Island equals Earth Island: we must not repeat its tragedy with the planet. It’s a satisfying tale, but apparently wrong.  The reality is far more interesting.In fact the lesson of Rapa Nui is how to get ecological caretaking right, not wrong.  Its people appear to have worked out an astutely delicate relationship to each other and to the austere ecology of their tiny island and its poor soil.  They were never violent.  The astonishing statues appear to have been an inherent part of how they managed population and ecological balance on their desert island.  (Their method of moving the huge statues was clever and surprisingly easy---they walked them upright.  See the amazing demonstration video!)  The famous collapse came from a familiar external source---European diseases and enslavement, the same as everywhere else in the Americas and the Pacific.All this is in a thoroughly persuasive book by an archaeologist and an anthropologist who did extensive fieldwork and historical study on Easter Island--- THE STATUES THAT WALKED: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island, by Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo.  The authors present their case live in January’s SALT talk.

Was it ecocide? The collapse of the mini-civilization on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has long been considered one of the great Green morality tales. Once the people there cut down the last tree, story goes, they were doomed. Their famous statues were an arms race that completed the exhaustion of their all-too-finite resources. Moral of the story: Easter Island equals Earth Island: we must not repeat its tragedy with the planet. It’s a satisfying tale, but apparently wrong. The reality is far more interesting. In fact the lesson of Rapa Nui is how to get ecological caretaking right, not wrong. Its people appear to have worked out an astutely delicate relationship to each other and to the austere ecology of their tiny island and its poor soil. They were never violent. The astonishing statues appear to have been an inherent part of how they managed population and ecological balance on their desert island. (Their method of moving the huge statues was clever and surprisingly easy---they walked them upright. See the amazing demonstration video!) The famous collapse came from a familiar external source---European diseases and enslavement, the same as everywhere else in the Americas and the Pacific. All this is in a thoroughly persuasive book by an archaeologist and an anthropologist who did extensive fieldwork and historical study on Easter Island--- THE STATUES THAT WALKED: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island, by Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo. The authors present their case live in January’s SALT talk.

Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo: The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island