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Author: Logan Vining

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December 4, 2018 Logan Vining

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Posted in: Week 15: Webinar

Life is Short, Become an Historian

November 26, 2018 Logan Vining

Harari argues that the Industrial Revolution ultimately allowed state and markets to trump family and communities by weakening the bonds…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

With Great CRISPR Power Comes Great Responsibility

November 12, 2018 Logan Vining 1 Comment

The example presented by Michael Specter regarding the modification of mosquitoes to eliminate the transmission of malaria, yellow fever, dengue…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

From Beagles to Barnacles: Darwin’s Theory of Descent With Modification

November 5, 2018 Logan Vining 1 Comment

Charles Darwin attempts to prove his arguments on descent with modification using inductive reasoning, meaning that based on his observations…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

The Whitlock Method: Framing Climate Change to Meet Unique Perspectives

October 29, 2018 Logan Vining

If I were to vote on the formal adoption of the Anthropocene epoch to the geological time scale, I would…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

Global Warming In Mirror Is Closer Than It Appears

October 22, 2018 Logan Vining 1 Comment

After reading the IPCC’s report on the severe and imminent consequences of global warming, I thought of several avenues regarding…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Big Business and Little Plants: The Winners and Losers of Mining’s Trophic Cascade

October 15, 2018 Logan Vining 1 Comment

Tim LeCain’s argument concerning transformational, relocational, and delaying technological fixes very much follows the logic of trophic cascading and socio-trophic…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Ironic Copper: The Story of Copper’s Environmental Destruction

October 8, 2018 Logan Vining

Technological advances allowed underground mining to occur because they allowed mining companies to push underground mining to its absolute limits,…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

The Checks and Balances of Science, Institutions, Power, and Control

October 1, 2018 Logan Vining

Governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines because they have the power to keep these institutions in…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

We Grow, We Earn, We Discover: The Scientific-Empiristic-Capitalistic Link

September 24, 2018 Logan Vining

Harari effectively links science, empire, and capitalism through one basic diagram: a self-looping graph that moves from Power to Resources…

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

It Was All In Our Heads: How Sapiens Dominated With Their Imagination

September 17, 2018 Logan Vining 1 Comment

The Cognitive Revolution represents the presence of new customs of thought and communication between approximately 70,000 to 30,000 years ago…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Douthwaite’s Controversy: A Glimpse into the Conundrum of Technological Fixes

September 10, 2018 Logan Vining

Michael and Joyce Huesemann would critique Douthwaite’s technological fix argument by showing how approaching social problems with a reductionist mindset…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

The Environmental-Societal Cycle

September 3, 2018 Logan Vining

When discussing the environmental issues facing the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, Jared Diamond begins by highlighting the toxic wastes produced…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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