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Author: Will Werner

How State and Market affected Human Culture

November 27, 2018 Will Werner 1 Comment

Harari believes that the state and the market became the central aspects of human culture when the free market came…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

Is Gene Editing immoral?

November 12, 2018 Will Werner 1 Comment

As I was reading through the National Geographic articles that detail CRISPR technology I found many things that were interesting. …

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Does everything Evolve?

November 5, 2018 Will Werner

Charles Darwin believed that the most likely cause of evolution throughout the course of history was natural selection.  He was…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

The Numbers Do Not Lie

October 29, 2018 Will Werner 1 Comment

If I had an important role and vote on the International Commission of Stratigraphy I would reject this new epoch…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

Our World May be ending but We might be to Ignorant to save it

October 22, 2018 Will Werner

Technological fixes can directly address the rising temperatures with many different ways.  First off, humans can lower the chances and…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Making Bank and Producing Waste! Can there be a middle ground?

October 15, 2018 Will Werner 2 Comments

Timothy LeCain argues that there are negative effects of mining on the environment and the air quality.  In the twentieth…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

We are Scarring the Earth’s Beautiful Image

October 8, 2018 Will Werner 1 Comment

Technological advances allow underground mining to occur by making it so that digging deep into the ground could be easier. …

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

The Dangers of Air Pumps and Electrical Machines!

October 3, 2018 Will Werner 4 Comments

The theme of Priestley’s quote at the beginning is that governments or specifically the English hierarchy had a reason to…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

Science, Empire, and Capital is Everything

September 24, 2018 Will Werner

As the chapters carry on the author narrows in on how exactly science, empire, and capitalism are tied together.  A…

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

The Biggest Revolutions of All Time!!

September 17, 2018 Will Werner

The Cognitive and Agricultural Revolution were huge.  According to Yuval Harari, “The Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. …

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Technology Makes the World go around!

September 10, 2018 Will Werner

Starting off with Johnson, he says,”While the notion of the technological fix is straightforward to explain, tracing its circulation in…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

Bitterroot Valley’s got 99 problems but beauty is not one!

September 4, 2018 Will Werner

The Bitterroot Valley faces many environmental problems such as increasing population, immigration, increasing scarcity and decreasing quality of water, poor…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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