November 13th, 2018 Dani D, Dani G, Elsie, and Meredith In today’s class, speaker Eric Klien spoke about Bioterrorism through the lens of the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza Pandemic and the ability to reproduce the H1N1 virus in order to enact biological terrorism on a population, as well as potential government involvement. In order to [...]
Group Post September 18th: Elsie, Dani D, Dani G, Meredith What happens to bomb shelters when a threat is no longer active? How do people cope with an immediate threat going away? http://www.history.nd.gov/historicsites/minutemanmissile/index.html This government website explores the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Site in North Dakota. The Oscar-Zero Missile Alert Facility and [...]
Group Post Sept. 11 Elsie, Meredith, Dani G, Dani D How does the future affect the present? https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/can-the-future-affect-our-decisions-in-the-present/ In this article, Radcliffe ponders the question about whether or not the prospect of the future can affect the present. People tend to be very critical about their present day actions affecting the future. [...]
Group 1: Elsie, Meredith, Dani G, Dani D What is human intervention? Destruction vs conservation http://www.endangered.org/10-easy-things-you-can-do-to-save-endangered-species/ (conservation) What is the quality of life of species in captivity? This opinion piece in The Guardian is written by someone who supports zoos for their efforts in conservation and capability to reintroduce species to their [...]