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Author: Maxwell Alvord

Maxwell Alvord And Killian Swirtz

December 4, 2018 Maxwell Alvord

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Posted in: Week 15: Webinar

state and market mean business

November 26, 2018 Maxwell Alvord

In the book Sapiens by Harari he makes it very easy to see how market and state became so central…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

christmas time gives us CRISPR

November 16, 2018 Maxwell Alvord

Our future with concern to gene editing is at the forefront with the inexplicably awesome new CRISPER technology. From the…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

we’re really warm

October 29, 2018 Maxwell Alvord

In todays world the political battles seem to burn more intensely than the nastiest forest fire in history and a…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

techno-fixes don’t fix it all

October 15, 2018 Maxwell Alvord

LeCain is not completely ignorant the pros and cons of techno-fixes and makes that point clear when he says, “Even…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

knick knack paddy frack mining is really wack

October 8, 2018 Maxwell Alvord

As the mining industry continues to develop environmental roadblocks are present problems in the work force. Luckily for the companies…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

The Air Scare

October 1, 2018 Maxwell Alvord 1 Comment

The air pump is one if the few of the few innovations in earths history that has had such an…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

A Capitalist Empire Fueled by Science

September 24, 2018 Maxwell Alvord

Maxwell Alvord September 23, 2018 With imperialism at the top of everyones mind it is not hard to find times…

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

tech fix or and environmental blitz?

September 10, 2018 Maxwell Alvord 3 Comments

(pretty sure this first question is talking about Johnson… but maybe I didn’t understand the articles) Jeff Douthwaite proposes that…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

Montana’s metal problem

September 3, 2018 Maxwell Alvord

Maxwell Alvord September 3, 2018 Under Montana’s big Sky During  Jared Diamonds interludes from New Guinea he spends time in…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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