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Author: Shayne Utter

Bring it on Back

November 26, 2018 Shayne Utter 1 Comment

Following the organization of large scale communities came the creation and acceptance of major power structures including governing unifying bodies…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

Science & Reason – Darwin Style

November 16, 2018 Shayne Utter

Despite his inability to prove evolution through natural selection, Darwin presented multiple thought provoking points to support what he argued…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

Socio-Genetic Gap??

Shayne Utter

With a steadily increasing socio-economic gap within the United States and around most of the world, Darnovsky’s point of the…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Accepting Our Present to Better the Future

October 29, 2018 Shayne Utter 1 Comment

Just as we have discussed in class, it is impossible to separate nature and society at this point and there…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

Ignorance is Bliss(tering) Our Ecosystem

October 22, 2018 Shayne Utter 4 Comments

Recognizing that human activity, the rise of industrialism, has been the leading contributor to the rise in global temperature, is…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Tech-No-Thank-You

October 15, 2018 Shayne Utter

As described in his two mining-based case studies, LeCain discusses three major types of technofixes, all with positives and negatives…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

With an Eye to the Past

October 8, 2018 Shayne Utter

As explained by LeCain, the industrial push in the United States, especially with the creation of and demand for electricity…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Leisurely Revolutions

October 1, 2018 Shayne Utter 1 Comment

Throughout history, there has been an undeniable trend of an increase in comfort and ease of life for the elite…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

If You’re Not First, You’re Last

September 24, 2018 Shayne Utter 2 Comments

Similar to science and all facets of society, science, empire and capitalism, are strongly interconnected and in a constant relationship…

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

Brawn vs. Brain – The Evolutionary Showdown

September 17, 2018 Shayne Utter

According to Harari and many other anthropologists and scholars, the Cognitive and Agricultural revolutions were turning points in history that…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

The Need for Humanity in Technology

September 10, 2018 Shayne Utter 4 Comments

Douthwaite contends that despite the inherent nature of technological fixes being short in scope and duration, they ultimately are needed…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

Montana and the World Repeating the Past

September 3, 2018 Shayne Utter

Imminent over-population and common effects of said over-population such as, access and quality to fresh water, changing air quality, harmful…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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