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Author: Garrett Hartley

Up, Down and All Around with Mars Colonization

December 4, 2018 Garrett Hartley Leave a comment

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Posted in: Week 15: Webinar

Ending Ignorance

November 26, 2018 Garrett Hartley Leave a comment

This section of Sapiens was extremely interesting as Harari does a fantastic job connecting ancient processes of human culture to…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

One Big Bummer

November 12, 2018 Garrett Hartley Leave a comment

This week’s readings entertain many of the highly controversial debates surrounding the topic of gene editing and if it should…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Interconnected Systems Through Time

November 5, 2018 Garrett Hartley Leave a comment

In Darwin’s “Recapitulation and Conclusion” he does a very thorough job at revisiting his arguments for evolution through natural selection…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

Difficult But Necessary Conservations

October 29, 2018 Garrett Hartley Leave a comment

This week’s readings have been very thought provoking as they discuss the many different sides of when did humans successful…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

Learning Outside the Classroom

October 22, 2018 Garrett Hartley 1 Comment

The articles about the IPCC report were very neat to read into and certainly illustrate the climate reality we live…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Narrow Approach Resulting in Wide Scope Consequences

October 15, 2018 Garrett Hartley Leave a comment

In LeCain’s argument about the effects of technological fixes he identifies the “transformational”, “relocational”, and “delaying” techno-fix which have which…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Sinking Deeper

October 8, 2018 Garrett Hartley 1 Comment

This week’s reading of “Between the Heavens and the Earth” sheds light on the advancements in technology which made underground…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Systems within Systems

September 24, 2018 Garrett Hartley Leave a comment

Reading about Harari’s ideas of how science, empire and capitalism have been closely linked through history has been really interesting…

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

Discussion Leading to Dominance

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In the first section of Sapiensby Yuval Noah Harari, he explains the significance of what is known as the “Cognitive”…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

The Consequences of Narrowly Defined Systems

September 10, 2018 Garrett Hartley 2 Comments

This week’s readings were very interesting as we heard from multiple perspectives on how technology should be implemented in society.…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

Montana Exemplifying Global Environment Concerns

September 3, 2018 Garrett Hartley Leave a comment

Throughout the Bitteroot Valley of Montana there are many environmental issues, some of which beginning over a century ago and…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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