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Author: Heather Schaffnit

Problems of Human Invention

November 26, 2018 Heather Schaffnit 2 Comments

Industrialization infiltrated many core structures of human culture, taking even the basic concept of time and giving it rules to…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

Social Development

November 12, 2018 Heather Schaffnit Leave a comment

Gould provided an extremely interesting discussion on the genetic progression of humanity, and how it’s development goes far beyond the…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Natural Selection: It’s Happening Now

November 5, 2018 Heather Schaffnit Leave a comment

Darwin used the example of agriculture, saying that the animals we captured and domesticated over several centuries experienced an exposure…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

Raising Awareness

October 29, 2018 Heather Schaffnit Leave a comment

The extent of human impact in modern-day goes far beyond that of any species thus far; with massive industrialization and…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

Desolate for a Solution

October 22, 2018 Heather Schaffnit Leave a comment

Throughout this course we have covered a variety of technological fixes regarding the many issues of industrialization, and how we…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

A Tragic Inevitability

October 15, 2018 Heather Schaffnit 1 Comment

LeCain realized the consistent potential for harm from toxic waste, even when it was seemingly disposed of or repurposed. In…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Developing Safety to Curate Harm

October 8, 2018 Heather Schaffnit 1 Comment

The number of deep and oxygen barren mine shafts of early 1900s mining, spurred largely by the search for the…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

The Complete, Unequivocal, yet Necessary Truth

October 1, 2018 Heather Schaffnit 1 Comment

The analogy of the air pumps and electrical machines portrays the effect of scientific process on the common culture of…

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Hope in a Future

September 24, 2018 Heather Schaffnit 2 Comments

Science is not only a tool of knowledge, but one of significant political importance. Empires provided a perfect foundation for…

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

Yeah Communication is Cool, but it’s not Everything

September 18, 2018 Heather Schaffnit 3 Comments

The cognitive revolution is rather deceiving in its title, as this wasn’t necessarily some massive progression of intellect and cognition…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

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