Culture versus Culture. You know you want it.

[stephbg]

I'm in the process of agitating for the Culture versus Culture (What a good plague can do for your overcrowding problem) panel to be included in Swancon 2009, and have recruited emma_in_oz for actual historical content.



For future reference (and ideas to reap) the last occasion this was raised was here:
http://community.livejournal.com/swancon/63990.html

I include the link because it was so damn hard to track down! I eventually found it in an e-mail I sent to myself so I would be able to find it again. Thank god for that. Is there some magic trick to searching the lj backblocks? Even google couldn't crack it, and my gogglefu is great.

Ooh, I'm getting all inspired. And Em has given me permission to poke at her with a handpuppet for disciplinary and educational purposes, so anyone who remembers my stirling (albeit censored) purple octopus work in 2007's "101 Uses For A Dead (Or Possibly Live) Squid", come on down. Or maybe it was 2006?

Hey drhoz if you're reading, want to join us and recreate pathological magic in front of a paying audience? If you're not I'll just have to track you down, infect you with something, and then withhold the antidote until you agree to participate. That's how we arranged it last time, yes?

Comments

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

Tehre were numerous murrains in the 1300s, killing the cattle (and thus, indirectly, the people) before the 1349 plague removed lots of the people and meant there was less pressure to keep lots and lots of cattle.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

sure, sounds good to me - i'll dig out some details on Iceland volcanic fluorine poisoning, the rinderpest outbreaks that destroyed civilisation in sub-Saharan Africa, sand so on