According to Harari, the state and the market allowed people to become individuals in the world and have freedoms…
To preface, my viewpoint of gene modification is largely skewed by the fact that I have never been threatened…
In Darwin’s Recapitulation and conclusion, he points to phenomena in nature that can simply not be explained by any theory…
From my own understanding of human impact on our environment and after having read the pieces by Steffen, Kolbert, and…
As has always been true with effectively reducing human impact on the environment, the main change required to make progress…
The LeCain reading addresses three types of technological fixes which seem to sum up the issues that scientists and…
As technological advances occur, as does progression in ability and efficiency of technologically inclined societies. In LeCain’s “Between Heavens and…
Johnson uses a few examples in The Invention of Air about how technologies such as air pumps and electrical machines…
Harari believes that, as with many other phenomena that have shaped our world, science, empire, and capitalism are linked in…
The Cognitive and Agricultural Revolutions, as Harari extensively addresses, were crucial turns in human history and what we know as…
While Douthwaite is far from alone when stating that technological fixes are necessary to solve social problems, authors Johnston and…
The Bitterroot Valley of Montana currently faces environmental problems that are very much characteristic of the mountain west since…