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: Chris Tompkins

Harari Episode VI: Return of the Sapiens

November 26, 2018 Chris Tompkins

According to the text, humans began to become attached to physical objects and belongings. Buying and selling goods became a…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

Now that’s some CRISP technology!

November 12, 2018 Chris Tompkins 1 Comment

The most exhilarating and frightening passages I read from the three articles was a sentence that caught my eye in…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

No such thing as an “Alternate Fact”

October 29, 2018 Chris Tompkins

If I was a part of The International Commission on Stratigraphy, I would add this new Anthropocene epoch to the…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

What’s mine is yours and what’s mined kills the environment.

October 15, 2018 Chris Tompkins 1 Comment

LeCain believes that the transformative techno-fix is the most reliable, safe and efficient, while the pathbreaking and delaying fixes cause…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Mine or Yours?

October 8, 2018 Chris Tompkins

As the mines developed, so did the safety risks involved with them. The mines needed to be researched and understood…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Science is Fact…?

October 1, 2018 Chris Tompkins 2 Comments

The use of the air pump and electrical machines are good, specific examples of things that kicked off the Industrial…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

Harari Part II: The Empire Strikes Back

September 24, 2018 Chris Tompkins

Science, Empire, and Capitalism, these three constructs all influenced, and continue to influence, one another. As Europeans of the 17th…

Continue Reading →

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

Size Matters: The Brains of Early Man

September 17, 2018 Chris Tompkins 2 Comments

Both the Cognitive Revolution and the Agricultural Revolution are fundamental events that lay all the ground work for the successful…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Techno-Logic

September 13, 2018 Chris Tompkins

In Douthwaite’s reading, the idea of a technological fix is presented as a necessary evil, that while there are negative…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

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