Anthropocene ABD Postmortem
So I am officially ABD as of Friday afternoon. One more hurdle cleared on the long march towards completing my PhD studies here in New York. Having completed my dissertation proposal defense this...
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Anthropocene Proposal Defense – Here We Go!
Come hell or high water tomorrow, which in New York these days it’s hard to know which is more likely, my PhD dissertation proposal defense will be over. I’m expecting it to be...
Robert Reich and the Liberal Myth of Wasted Votes
I recently had a friend post the following post written by Robert Reich, the author of Beyond Outrage, pleading for people to vote for Obama and save the country. His post has slowly...
George Dyson and the Almost Apocalypse
“It really is an apocalyptic change,” said Dyson, referring to the power of the digital revolution. I recently attended a public talk by noted science historian and writer George Dyson as part of...
2016: Deconstructing Dinesh D’Souza’s Right Wing Fantasies
[Updated 9/25/12 with extended fact checking of film at end of post] This post offers a media analysis and political commentary on Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie 2016: Obama’s America. I had assigned both...
Monsters in the Greenhouse: Risk, faith and science in the Anthropocene
In short, this project is looking at the concept of the Anthropocene, a scientific proposal to designate a new geologic epoch covering the past ~250 yrs that would mark the increasing impacts of...
