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Author: Patrick Phattharaampornchai

Food Supply and Population Growth by Audrey Scott, Jacob Dass, and Patrick Phattharaampornchai

December 4, 2018 Patrick Phattharaampornchai

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Posted in: Week 15: Webinar

How to Edit a Greater Good

November 12, 2018 Patrick Phattharaampornchai

CRISPR technology allows scientists the power to correct and delete genes in order to cure disease, fight pests, save extinct…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Vote For Darwin

November 5, 2018 Patrick Phattharaampornchai 1 Comment

Charles Darwin believed that all animals have descended from at most four or five common ancestors (Darwin p. 503).  Science…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

A Rational Skepticism in Rational Science

October 29, 2018 Patrick Phattharaampornchai

The Anthropocene epoch should be included in the geological calendar as it marks a period where carbon dioxide levels have…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

A Global Effort

October 22, 2018 Patrick Phattharaampornchai

Contrary to what media and political agenda may advocate, the IPCC states that climate change is not only real but…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Pollution and the Technological Era

October 15, 2018 Patrick Phattharaampornchai

LeCain describes the three primary types of techno-fixes as transformational, relocational, and delaying (LeCain p. 138).  This fixes have historically…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

The Ecological Cost of Industrialization

October 8, 2018 Patrick Phattharaampornchai

With the nineteenth and twentieth century came the rise of new powerful machines and techniques that allowed mining deep into…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Truth Found in Contradiction

October 3, 2018 Patrick Phattharaampornchai 2 Comments

Science is often seen as something that exists outside the realms of politics or religion, however, for Joseph Priestley the…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

The Cycle of Scientific Conquest

September 24, 2018 Patrick Phattharaampornchai

Before the scientific revolution much of knowledge that was not known was considered unimportant if it was not recorded in…

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

The Effect of the Cognitive and Agricultural Revolutions on Sapien Dominance

September 19, 2018 Patrick Phattharaampornchai 2 Comments

Humans were once insignificant animals with little impact on their environment (Harari p. 4).  However, the occurrence of certain revolutions…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Consequences of Technological Fixes as a Solution to Environmental and Social Issues

September 10, 2018 Patrick Phattharaampornchai

Many problems involving nature and human societies are highly complex and connected that the solution to these problems are very…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

Significance of Yali’s Question and the Questions it Poses

September 3, 2018 Patrick Phattharaampornchai 21 Comments

Survival of the fittest is a famous phrase to describe both the evolution of species and the rise and fall…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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