Based on the result of our submissions topic, /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov's submission received the most votes. I will repost the information below. We have one week to read the article and next Wednesday we will come together to discuss what we read. Some things to keep in mind as you read:

• What did you like? What did you dislike?

• What did you not understand? What was explained really well?

• Did you notice any problems or issues in the premise/methodology/sources/etc?

• What would you like to know more about?

Obviously you do not have to answer any or some of these questions, but consider them as you read.

I would also like to thank everyone who submitted articles, but did not receive the most votes. All of the submissions were varied, interesting, and sounded worth reading. I hope that you will consider resubmitting them in a week and a half when we choose our next article/chapter.

If there are any issues, comments, questions, etc. please let me know in the comments below. Feedback is more than welcome and highly encouraged. Again, thank you all and have fun reading.

• Charles Mann's "1491" article from The Atlantic, which eventually would lead to the book of the same name

• http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302445/

• "Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe. New evidence of both the extent of the population and its agricultural advancement leads to a remarkable conjecture: the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact"

• Interest topic

• 1st Call for Submissions

• 1st Announcement

• 1st Discussion

• 2nd Call for Submissions