scienceoracle

This blog is focused on scientific and technical issues that apply to the environment, and global climate change.

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

What makes it the Anthropocene?

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  As I’ve collected materials cut from magazines or printed from internet documents having to do with environmental issues, I’ve wanted to b...
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Thursday, December 10, 2020

Don't throw away your two shots!

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 Despite the fact that vaccines have been hands-down the greatest life-saving invention of science, there is a persistent theme borne of con...
Monday, December 7, 2020

Has Regenerative Agriculture's time arrived?

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  In The Social dilemma , a documentary featured on Netflix, a group of young tech-savvy veterans of the social media world lay out their co...
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Sunday, October 4, 2020

Standing up for Nature's Rights

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I’ve been living in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for the past two months. I’ve come here every summer for the past 50 years. The UP, as it’s c...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

And who shall feed us, one and all?

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  The nation’s continuing crises around food and farming intersect with every aspect of our lives. Agricultural activity accounts for about...
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Theodore Brown
Theodore Brown is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Founding Director Emeritus of the famous Arnold and Mabel Beckman Institute at Illinois, devoted to interdisciplinary science. He also served as Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School at Illinois. He has long been interested in the cognitive, philosophical and social aspects of science, and authored several books, including Making Truth: Metaphors in Science and Imperfect Oracle: The Epistemic and Moral Authority of Science Most recently he has written an historical novel, The Beauty of their Dreams, a multi-generational tale situated in the tumultuous first half of the 20th century, available online.
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