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Author: Jay Harrison

Death of the Wolf, Birth of the Dog

November 12, 2018 Jay Harrison Leave a comment

Michael Specter’s paper, How the DNA Revolution is Changing Us, talks about the possibility of changing the genome of living…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Climate Rant

October 22, 2018 Jay Harrison Leave a comment

If one is brave and confident enough to place their trust in the words of any government agency, then they…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Abandon All Hope and Accept the Truth

October 15, 2018 Jay Harrison 1 Comment

LeCain’s basic argument about the three technofixes were that they are never a guarantee on if they’ll actually work to…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Rethinking Everything

October 8, 2018 Jay Harrison 1 Comment

Tim LeCain explains in his book Between the Heavens and the Earth that the Butte copper mines needed to new…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Why we win

September 20, 2018 Jay Harrison Leave a comment

If you were to ask Yuval Noah Harari what the foundations of human civilization are, you’d get the answer that…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

“Facts”

September 13, 2018 Jay Harrison Leave a comment

Douthwaite makes a claim that social problems should be solved by means of technology, but Johnston and Huesemann may nitpick…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

My Changing Home

September 5, 2018 Jay Harrison Leave a comment

Today in the Bitterroot Valley there lies two major environmental issues, water quality and forest fire danger. Such problems are…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

Simple answer to a simple question.

September 3, 2018 Jay Harrison Leave a comment

What is Yali’s question? Yali’s question is the entire basis for Jared Diamond’s book “Guns, Germs, and Steel” seeks to…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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