Skip to content
Mountains and Minds
Discovering the History of Mountaineering
  • Home
  • Michael Reidy
  • HSTR 467
  • Research
  • Blog
    • Week 01: Test
    • Week 02: Diamond (MT)
    • Week 03: Technological Fix
    • Week 04: Harari (Part 1)
    • Week 05: Harari (Part 2) and Johnson (Part 1)
    • Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)
    • Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)
    • Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)
    • Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)
    • Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)
    • Week 11: Darwin
    • Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris
    • Week 14: Harari (Part 3)
    • Week 15: Webinar

Author: Patrick Wolff

Mars Colonization Webinar

December 3, 2018 Patrick Wolff

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 15: Webinar

Custom Tailored Babies

November 11, 2018 Patrick Wolff

With this CRISPR technology, the ability to solve many genetic defects in the world is within our grasp. The question…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Darwin, Finches, and Mules

November 4, 2018 Patrick Wolff 1 Comment

Darwin argued that his theory of natural selection and by extension, evolution, was correct through several points. The first point…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

One does not simply stop using fossil fuels

October 28, 2018 Patrick Wolff

I think that adding the Anthropocene as an official geologic era is a sound idea. Therefore, I would vote “yes”…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

Cow Farts and Tyndall

October 21, 2018 Patrick Wolff 2 Comments

A technological fix could buy us some time in the face of global warming, but there are other issues increasing…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Shiny stuff and your life

October 14, 2018 Patrick Wolff

LeCain’s argument concerning the types of technological fix seems to be that every type of fix eventually damages the environment…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Dirt, shiny metal stuff, and ways we kill ourselves

October 10, 2018 Patrick Wolff

Tim Lecain goes into great depth on how technological advances have made underground mining to occur. In Butte, Montana, a…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Surfing 18th cent U.K.

September 30, 2018 Patrick Wolff

Eighteenth and nineteenth century governments and religion should have feared air pumps and electrical machines for several reasons. The most…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

Progress is Ironic

September 24, 2018 Patrick Wolff

The advancement of science and economics beginning in the 16th century was not originally for the betterment of humanity or…

Continue Reading →

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

Better ways of hitting people with a stick

September 17, 2018 Patrick Wolff 1 Comment

For much of its existence, members  the homo genus were small bands of hunter-gatherers scattered across the globe. Four separate…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Descent to the Dark Side of Carelessness.

September 9, 2018 Patrick Wolff 1 Comment

The technological fix has solved countless issues in the past century. In places where politics, economics, and education fixes failed,…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

Environmental Issues: Killing Civilization since 600 BCE

September 6, 2018 Patrick Wolff

Located several miles south of Missoula, the Bitterroot Valley is unique in how it represents the problems of the modern…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

Contact Me

  • Email
    mreidy@montana.edu

The content of this website is copyrighted © by Michael S. Reidy and is used for educational purposes only. No part of this website may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means without written consent from me. (Actually, you can reproduce, distribute, and transmit the shit out of this, without any written consent from anyone, especially me.  I don’t care.)

Copyright © 2023 Mountains and Minds — Ascension WordPress theme by GoDaddy