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Author: Cameron Durfee

Historians are the Future

November 29, 2018 Cameron Durfee

Harari discusses at the end of his book Sapiens, how humans went from living in a peaceful state of nature…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

How Intimidating is CRISPR Technology?

November 12, 2018 Cameron Durfee 1 Comment

The argument for and against gene editing through the CRISPR technology has created a lot of controversy within the last…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

The Struggle of Convincing People Evolution Exists

November 5, 2018 Cameron Durfee

This chapter we read from Darwin came as the final concluding chapter of his work The Origin of Species. In…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

The Industrial Revolution: The Beginning of the End

October 29, 2018 Cameron Durfee 3 Comments

The International Commission on Stratigraphy is voting on whether or not to add the Anthropocene epoch to the geological time…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

It’s Not to Late to Try and Save our Planet

October 22, 2018 Cameron Durfee 1 Comment

If the average global temperature keeps continuing to rise at the pace it’s at, we will soon reach catastrophic levels…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

The Three fixes to the Negative Impact of Mining

October 15, 2018 Cameron Durfee

According to Lecain there are three different kind of technological fixes for the negative issues that mining creates. These three…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

The negative consequences of mining

October 8, 2018 Cameron Durfee 1 Comment

In the mining world there were many advancements that were made from the beginning of the mining era to its…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

The Power of the Air Pump

October 1, 2018 Cameron Durfee

Joseph Priestly states at the beginning of Steven Johnson’s book The Invention of Air that the English hierarchy should fear…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

Progress and its connection to all parts of the empire

September 24, 2018 Cameron Durfee 1 Comment

Science, empire and Capitalism are all closely linked together because they all work together to progress and better the empire.…

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

The Evolution of Human Culture

September 17, 2018 Cameron Durfee

In his book Sapiens, Yuval Harari argues that the cognitive and the agricultural revolutions shaped our modern civilization. The cognitive…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT), Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

The dangers and the positive impact of technology

September 10, 2018 Cameron Durfee 1 Comment

Jeff Douthwaite states in his paper that we as a society need to use technology to fix our problems. He…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

The collapse of the Bitterroot Valley and Montana

September 3, 2018 Cameron Durfee 1 Comment

The Bitterroot valley in Southwestern Montana faces many environmental issues. Many people would not think of Southwestern Montana as a…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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