Posts from the ‘ASIC200’ category

Replication, a doodle (a la Breakfast of Champions) version of last night’s lecture.

To begin with, we’ll start with a chicken scratch drawing of a DNA molecule, which you know is double stranded. My poor pathetic attempt at illustration…

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Wishes. Do you have one?

A couple weeks ago, I ran a few lab exercises that revolve around the use of software to city planning, especially as it pertains to issues…

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Climate Porn

At the risk of posting some hot & sweaty climate porn, I’d like to respond to a question that was asked in class last night. We…

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“Science of Climate Change” lectures: hits and misses.

This week, I get to relax a little for the ASIC course, since Allen will now take the reins and look at some of the social…

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Since we’ll be doing a bit of math today in class (plus this video kind of makes me think of how climate change science is debated)

In my hunt for things to incorporate in a lecture later today, I came across this great video (Ma and Pa Kettle) on the mathematics divide.…

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It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)

Talking zeitgeists – the whole we’re all gonna die mentality that is somewhat prevalent in the culture of global issues. Here the talk was to break…

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Global from the science (history) perspective.

For our first lecture in ASIC 200 we decided to define “global” in our respective contexts (Allen in the humanities, and myself in the sciences). This…

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What does “global” mean in the social sciences and humanities?

(Click on the movie to move through slides) As seen in last thursday’s class.

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Language of Arts vs Science

Have you ever noticed how scientists and artists seem to talk a different language? I admit there is a lot of similarity between the passion and…

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