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Author: Catherine Vejvoda

Imagined Happiness

November 26, 2018 Catherine Vejvoda 1 Comment

Harari says that “most of the traditional functions of families and communities were handed over to states and markets.”(Pg. 356)…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

Pushing the Limits?

November 16, 2018 Catherine Vejvoda

I have found CRISPR technology to be a super interesting topic to me, and I have enjoyed reading about it…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Evolution Confusion

November 5, 2018 Catherine Vejvoda 2 Comments

Before Darwin could convince his readers of evolution through natural selection, he had to acknowledge the reasons that people did…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

The Era of Environmental Epoch

October 29, 2018 Catherine Vejvoda

I think I would vote for the the Anthropocene epoch part of the geological calendar. I think it is important…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

Climate Crisis

October 22, 2018 Catherine Vejvoda 1 Comment

The ramifications of climate change that we could face are all quite terrifying, but what are people doing to stop…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Technological Trix

October 15, 2018 Catherine Vejvoda

Right off the bat, LeCain claims that the three technological fixes “…ultimately resulted in other environmental problems, and they thus…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Copper Crap-out

October 8, 2018 Catherine Vejvoda

LeCain stated that the absence of mining was not an option. (Pg. 25) The only option was to come up…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Power to the Pump

October 1, 2018 Catherine Vejvoda 3 Comments

I think that governments and religions fear the air pump and the electrical machine because they enabled one of the…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

The Webs of Wealth

September 24, 2018 Catherine Vejvoda 1 Comment

On page 278 of Sapiens, Harari concludes that it is hard to tell the difference between science and empire. He…

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

Whoops…How We Accidentally Took Over the Planet

September 17, 2018 Catherine Vejvoda

The Cognitive Revolution was the time in which homo sapiens began to learn how to use things like rocks in…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Temporary Fixes Turning into Terror

September 10, 2018 Catherine Vejvoda

While Douthwaite states that technological fixes are necessary, I would argue that both Johnson and Huesemann and Huesemann would argue…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

Looking Beyond the Big Sky

September 3, 2018 Catherine Vejvoda

After reading Jared Diamond’s article “Under Montana’s Big Sky,” I realized that Montana is suffering from a lot of Environmental…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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