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Designer Babies Webinar

December 4, 2018 Natalie Carlson

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Posted in: Week 15: Webinar

Family Feuds and Minds for Sale

November 26, 2018 Natalie Carlson

The chain of arguments which Harari uses to explain how state and market became central to human culture begins with…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

I’ll Take One CRISPR Edit, With a Side Of Concern

November 12, 2018 Natalie Carlson 1 Comment

Like humans, various animal can have diseases that will significantly impact the population. In the case of the Black-Footed Ferret,…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Darwin-er Winner, Chicken Dinner.

November 5, 2018 Natalie Carlson 2 Comments

Darwin’s final arguments, meant to summarize his view and convince his readers, began with a few statements that he thinks…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

Them Are Fightin’ Words

October 29, 2018 Natalie Carlson

If I had a vote on the commission about the adoption of the Anthropocene epoch and its addition to the…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

People Who Are Mad About Climate Science Need to Chill

October 22, 2018 Natalie Carlson

  The New York Times article phrases the impending global problems to occur by 2040 as “a world of worsening…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Blame it on the Fix, Hon.

October 15, 2018 Natalie Carlson

LeCain gave two case study examples which showcased the various types of techno-fixes found in environment/mining issues. In Ducktown, there…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

They Used To Use Birds As Death Timers, Just FYI

October 8, 2018 Natalie Carlson 2 Comments

As was it was put on page 38 of the reading from LeCain, ” As mines began to sink thousands…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Why it’s Worse to be Afraid

October 1, 2018 Natalie Carlson 1 Comment

Within Johnson’s book and Priestly’s life, governments and religions had reason to fear things such as air pumps and electrical…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

Capital Consequences

September 25, 2018 Natalie Carlson 5 Comments

In his book, Harari claims that Science, empire, and capitalism are linked because of how one can support the advancement…

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

Wheat Imagine the Possibilities

September 17, 2018 Natalie Carlson 1 Comment

According to Harari, the “Cognitive Revolution,” which separates us from other animals, began when humans developed the ability to have…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Never Gonna Give You Up, Never Gonna Let You Down, Never Gonna Do More Science and Destroy You

September 10, 2018 Natalie Carlson

Douthwaite believes that using technology to fixes the problems within society is both the best and only true way. However,…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

People Don’t Care, and They Never Have.

September 3, 2018 Natalie Carlson 4 Comments

Diamond summed up the environmental issues that Montana is currently facing as  “almost all of the dozen types of problems…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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