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Author: Rachel Bragg

The Industrial World: Soil Degradation

November 30, 2018 Rachel Bragg

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Posted in: Week 15: Webinar

Human Photoshop

November 12, 2018 Rachel Bragg 3 Comments

Though it’s probably the most obvious answer to this question I honestly think that the prospect of human gene editing…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Darwinistic Approach

November 5, 2018 Rachel Bragg 2 Comments

Darwin goes over a couple different arguments in the last paragraph of the theory of evolution, the biggest and more…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

Epoch of Our Destruction

October 28, 2018 Rachel Bragg

The Anthropocene Epoch is the current geological time scale that we are living in and it is unrealistic to reject…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

Climate Fatigue

October 20, 2018 Rachel Bragg

The IPCC report paints a dark picture of what will happen if the world collectively does not make an active…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Ducksmog and Dead Deer

October 14, 2018 Rachel Bragg

LeCain’s argument in the case studies of technofixes for environmental pollution of smeltering facilities shows that secondary environmental pollution caused…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Cave-ins and Cashouts

October 7, 2018 Rachel Bragg

Underground mining has been a staple of gold, silver, and coal mining that has seen lots of development since the…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Foundation of Money

September 29, 2018 Rachel Bragg

The largest revelation of the 18th century was the improvement of the technology available to the average person and by…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

System of Relapse

September 23, 2018 Rachel Bragg

According to Harari the organizations of empires as the standard for political rule fueled the exploration of science and the…

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

Revolutionary Reductionism

September 17, 2018 Rachel Bragg 1 Comment

The Cognitive Revolution was made unique as it gave sapiens the ability to communicate in fashions far more complex than…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Big Fix or Techno Fallout

September 10, 2018 Rachel Bragg

Although Douthwaite argues against the social fix for a large portion of the essay he states that through technological fixes…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

Environment of Greed

September 3, 2018 Rachel Bragg

The Bitterroot Valley of Montana is full of paradoxes, it is beautiful with its flora, yet these plants can actively…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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