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Author: Jason Pichette

Analysing the Fesibility of Clean Energy Transitions

December 3, 2018 Jason Pichette

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Posted in: Week 15: Webinar

How the State and Market Dethroned the Family

November 26, 2018 Jason Pichette

After an in-depth analysis of past generations and Sapiens in particular, towards the end of his book, Harari takes a…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

CRISPR Technology: Moral Dilemma or Groundbreaking Invention?

November 12, 2018 Jason Pichette

Progressing faster and faster each day, CRISPR technology presents many new outcomes for future societies. One example from the reading…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Darwin’s Defense of Evolution

November 5, 2018 Jason Pichette 2 Comments

Ahead of his time and pushing an unpopular theory, Charles Darwin argues for the theory of evolution in The Origin…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

The Anthropocene: An Era of Humans Ruining the Earth

October 29, 2018 Jason Pichette 3 Comments

The Anthropocene, as defined by Will Steffen, is “the current epoch in which humans and our societies have become a…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

More Climate Problems and Less Time

October 22, 2018 Jason Pichette

Contrary to previous beliefs, the new IPCC report has shown us that the impacts of climate change are coming, and…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

More Techno-Fixes or Less Mining?

October 15, 2018 Jason Pichette

Returning to the topic of technological fixes visited earlier in the year, author Timothy LeCain revisits this conservation topic and…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Mines and Dead Zones: The Consequences of Cooper

October 8, 2018 Jason Pichette 1 Comment

As discussed by LeCain in “Between the Heavens and the Earth”, mining underground not only comes with a slew of…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Science: Pursuit of the Truth

October 1, 2018 Jason Pichette

Throughout The Invention of Air, author Steven Johnson outlines some of the many important revelations during the study of oxygen,…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

Science, Empire, and Capitalism: The Growth Trifecta

September 24, 2018 Jason Pichette

After a descriptive recap of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific revolutions, Harari now explains arguably the three biggest parts of…

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

Ever Advancing Sapiens

September 17, 2018 Jason Pichette

Throughout the beginning of Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari touches on many aspects of primitive life, primarily the Cognitive and Agricultural…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Newton’s 3rd Law and Technological Fixes

September 10, 2018 Jason Pichette

Newton’s third law of motion states: ‘For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction’. I can’t say I’m…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

The Big Sky State and Bigger Problems

September 3, 2018 Jason Pichette

As Jared Diamond thoroughly explained in Under Montana’s Big Sky, Montana, and more specifically the Bitterroot valley faces many environmental…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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