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Author: Jacob Lunsford

From Family Matters to Bureaucratic Stalling

November 26, 2018 Jacob Lunsford Leave a comment

According to Harari the State and the Market became a central figure in human culture during the time of the…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

Farming Organs

November 12, 2018 Jacob Lunsford Leave a comment

One of the many examples of the fact that much of the CRISPR technology is both exhilarating yet terrifying, is…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

How Animals DarWin Natural Resources

November 5, 2018 Jacob Lunsford 1 Comment

Although Darwin could not definitively prove his theory of evolution through natural selection, you could described it as an argument…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

Along Came a New Epoch

October 29, 2018 Jacob Lunsford Leave a comment

The question of whether we should adopt a new epoch to the geological time scale, the Anthropocene, is quite interesting.…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

A Streetcar Named Climate Science

October 22, 2018 Jacob Lunsford Leave a comment

The readings posted this week gave a bleak future if society doesn’t change some of their habits relatively fast. In…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Putting the Smoke in Smoky Mountains

October 15, 2018 Jacob Lunsford 1 Comment

For Lecain the three types of techno-fixes are the transformational, relocational, and the delay techno-fix. Most of the techno-fixes are…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Highway to the Extraction Zone

October 8, 2018 Jacob Lunsford 1 Comment

In the reading, LeCain examines how science has impacted mining in extreme environments. He notes that “With improved maps and…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

The Good, The Bad, and The Energy

October 1, 2018 Jacob Lunsford 1 Comment

The notion that the great English empire and hierarchy should tremble at the air pump or electrical machine, would have…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

The Journey 2 the Center of Progress

September 24, 2018 Jacob Lunsford 1 Comment

The link between science, empire, and capitalism is that they all benefit from one another. In the book, Harari notes…

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

Rise of the Planet of Homo sapiens

September 17, 2018 Jacob Lunsford 1 Comment

The cognitive revolution is argued to be the beginning of what researchers call modern cognition, Harari states that “the appearance…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Pomp and Consequence

September 10, 2018 Jacob Lunsford 1 Comment

The other two authors would argue that technological fixes are not necessary to solve social problems. In the Johnstone piece…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

A Mountain of a Problem

September 3, 2018 Jacob Lunsford Leave a comment

There are many types of environmental problems that not only the Bitterroot Valley of Montana is facing, but the entire…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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