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Author: Nathan Rubino

The Industrial Revolution and it’s affect on today’s society

November 27, 2018 Nathan Rubino

In the not-so-distant past, the world’s population began to increase almost exponentially as a direct result of what we now…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

CRISPR: A Scientific Frontier

November 12, 2018 Nathan Rubino 2 Comments

Though aspects of biology have been studied for millennia, a promising new technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 has emerged within the…

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Posted in: blog, Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

On “On the Origin of Species”

November 5, 2018 Nathan Rubino

Throughout history, there have been a number of scientists that have generated ground-breaking–but at the same time, very polarizing ideas…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

The Anthropocene: a Scene of Disaster?

October 29, 2018 Nathan Rubino

Currently, we are officially living in the Holocene epoch–with an epoch being a unit of time that, in the case…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

Climate catastrophe by 2040? and the findings by the IIPC

October 22, 2018 Nathan Rubino

Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IIPC, for short) released a shocking (or maybe not so shocking)…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

LeCain’s techno fixes and the cases of Ducktown and the Deer Lodge Valley

October 15, 2018 Nathan Rubino

In his essay “When Everybody Wins Does the Environment Lose? The Environmental Techno-Fix in Twentieth-Century American Mining,” Timothy J. LeCain…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Mines and their not-so-minor consequences

October 8, 2018 Nathan Rubino 1 Comment

Mining has been a staple in resource gathering for the better part of human history, as the earth itself holds…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

From chimpanzees to modern man: imagined orders and the revolutions of our ancestors

September 17, 2018 Nathan Rubino

Throughout the history of planet Earth, the existence of humans–more specifically, modern humans–has occured in the relative blink of an eye.…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Equilibrium and the tech-fix

September 10, 2018 Nathan Rubino

Throughout history, the intrinsic human desire to adapt and thrive through the use of increasingly complex technological advancement has largely…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

The case of the Bitterrott Valley: one hundred and fifty-plus years of poor environmental foresight

September 6, 2018 Nathan Rubino

To thoroughly discuss the environmental issues that plague Montana’s seemingly pristine Bitterroot Valley would mean a deep-dive into a complex…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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