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HSTR 207 Gonzales, O’Brien

December 3, 2018 Alexia Gonzales Leave a comment

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Posted in: Week 15: Webinar

Industrial Revolution: The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg

November 26, 2018 Alexia Gonzales Leave a comment

The Industrial Revolution brought industrial time tables, urbanization, disappearance of peasantry, rise of the industrial proletariat, empowerment of the common…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

Oh, just another techno-fix

November 12, 2018 Alexia Gonzales Leave a comment

CRISPR technology is undoubtedly a huge success for the field of biology, but a deservingly questionable technology as well. In…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Will the study of natural history become!

November 7, 2018 Alexia Gonzales Leave a comment

Darwin follows the consilience of induction when explaining his theory. His main argument is that it is the quantity and…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

You are now leaving the Holocene…

October 29, 2018 Alexia Gonzales Leave a comment

Geological times scales mark geological strata to time, and show the relationships of events that occur during Earth’s time. I…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

Ignorance and bliss, politics and environment: will we ever move forward?

October 22, 2018 Alexia Gonzales Leave a comment

Technological fixes have been a staple for solutions since anthropogenic environmental issues and degradation, as we’ve learned throughout this course…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Ducktown, Anaconda, and the inevitability that we will need minerals forever.

October 15, 2018 Alexia Gonzales Leave a comment

A large takeaway from the past lectures in class and this week’s readings is that mining has been an amazing…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Mining: A Great Thing At An Even Greater Cost

October 8, 2018 Alexia Gonzales 1 Comment

Technological advancements in the mining industry have definitely helped the industrial powers and mass progress of the United States, providing…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

New beginnings for Priestley

October 1, 2018 Alexia Gonzales Leave a comment

Religions, more so than governments, should fear air pumps and electrical machines. Throughout the second part of the book, Johnson…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

Scientist lives matter

September 24, 2018 Alexia Gonzales Leave a comment

“The feedback loop between science, empire, and capital has arguably been history’s chief engine for the past 500 years” (p…

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Posted in: Week 05: Harari (Part 2) and Johnson (Part 1)

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

September 17, 2018 Alexia Gonzales Leave a comment

The Cognitive Revolution was one small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind. In Sapiens, Harari described the…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Goldilocks Principle: Techno-fix Edition

September 10, 2018 Alexia Gonzales Leave a comment

“Whatever the moral, ethical, or legal implications of a technological fix, if it works even temporarily to solve an important…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

Problems, Humans, and the Future

September 3, 2018 Alexia Gonzales 1 Comment

Toxic wastes from mining, logging, forest fires, salinization, water quantity, biodiversity loss, and introduced pests are among the various environmental…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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