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Author: Sydney Jones

A society full of identical individuals

November 26, 2018 Sydney Jones 131 Comments

In the Harari text, the Industrial Revolution is associated with a major social change, the state and market replacing the…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

CRISP

November 13, 2018 Sydney Jones

An exhilarating opportunity that the CRISPR technology could provide was the idea of organ transplants for animals, such as pigs.…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Darweek

November 5, 2018 Sydney Jones

Darwin argues that natural selection is correct in a variety of ways, even though he couldn’t definitely prove it. He…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

Don’t Cause an AnthropoSCENE

October 29, 2018 Sydney Jones 1 Comment

If I had to vote on The International Commission of Stratigraphy, I would accept adding this new epoch to the…

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Sci-Cli

October 23, 2018 Sydney Jones 4 Comments

Rising temperatures would greatly impact the environment and cause a series of negative effects. This change could potentially be solved…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Techno-Fix This

October 15, 2018 Sydney Jones 3 Comments

LeCain’s argument, brought up in his writing, “When Everybody Wins Does the Environment Lose?” discusses both sides of the argument,…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Between Heaven and Hell

October 8, 2018 Sydney Jones

In LeCain’s Between the Heavens and the Earth, there is a lot of discussion of what technology benefitted mining throughout…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Week 6

October 2, 2018 Sydney Jones 1 Comment

This idea of governments and religions fearing these technologies is an important part of history. As Johnson states in The…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

Science Empire and Capitalism but also Religion

September 25, 2018 Sydney Jones 2 Comments

The link between capitalism, empire, and science is described well in the Harari text. His main description is that these…

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

Hararis History

September 18, 2018 Sydney Jones 2 Comments

The cognitive and agricultural revolutions were the basis for human civilizations in a lot of ways. The cognitive revolution is…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Montana and her mishaps

September 4, 2018 Sydney Jones

After reading Diamonds information on Montana, I did gain a new perspective, even as someone who was born and raised…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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