{"id":2793,"date":"2011-01-06T12:19:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T20:19:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-10-23T23:34:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:34:21","slug":"human-accomplishment-and-the-black-swan-c-span-video-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/human-accomplishment-and-the-black-swan-c-span-video-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Accomplishment and The Black Swan &#8211; C-SPAN Video Library 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/program\/TheBlac\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blackswanreport.com\/media\/NasimTaleb-CharlesMurray200707.jpg\" alt=\"Nasim Taleb-Charles Murray 200707\" width=\"428\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charles Murray and Nassim Taleb discussed their research on interpretations of historical achievement and great human accomplishments, including the analysis of unexpected events throughout history. After their presentations they responded to audience members&#8217; questions.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Murray is the author of <em>Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950<\/em> and Nassim Taleb is the author of <em>The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(Click arrow to play audio) Nassim Taleb (only, please see original source for entire program).<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2793-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/media\/Nassim-Taleb-Freedom-Fest-070707.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/media\/Nassim-Taleb-Freedom-Fest-070707.mp3\">http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/media\/Nassim-Taleb-Freedom-Fest-070707.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Murray and Nassim Taleb discussed their research on interpretations of historical achievement and great human accomplishments, including the analysis of unexpected events throughout history. After their presentations they responded to audience &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,33],"tags":[418,421,422,19],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john","category-video","tag-c-span","tag-charles-murray","tag-freedom-fest-2007","tag-nassim-taleb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}