Minutes February 24, 2009 by Nick
Class started at 9:29 a.m. “Sometimes you are the windshield,
Everyone was present and sometimes you are the bug…”
-M.C. Carpenter
Class Topics:
• Assignments due were to have read chapter four, and to have prepared a “heart felt” response to a question pertaining to a given article
• Due next class was read about proposals online (which we all seemed to have trouble finding), and to start on chapter three of Science and Society
Some Initial Concerns:
• Weltenshuang-“world view”→scientific world should bridge gap with social world
• Our book tries to convey different ideas/theories within the scientific world, but addresses to the all
Articles/Questions Addressed by Students:
• 3 people addressed Leopold→ as well as the whole class has experienced a dying pet or animal, at one point or another
-1lb of coal lights a house lamp per week
• 1 person addressed “Ice Memory”→ talked of uncertainty of climatic events, erratic until present
-Was the establishment of Iceland luck, or just Vikings? Erik the Red 1150 ad→ Parents fled Norway
• 5 people answered questions for “Warm, Warmer, Warmest”
-Addressed feedback loops→Any change in the environment leading to additional and enhanced changes in that system is the result of a positive feedback mechanism(1)
-Most of us are a part of the current positive one
-Present connections, think in the here and now→ would this reasoning help?
-Would anyone give up the luxuries (security) they have?
-Not going to get rid of hardcore conservatives any time soon (brainwashing?)
• 0 people addressed “Frankenfoods”
-Forced farming→ Who does it benefit?
-Monsanto or “Monster Manipulators”
-Do we even need chickens anymore?
• 2 individuals answered for “Easter Island”
-Small Earth in a sense→ May be what is happening to our present world today (on a larger scale but still do not realize it)
-Who will become a cannibal?
-Retrospect→ life expectancy, political figures/structures
• The rest of us did “Earth Without People”
-Visual article, able to “emotionally engage”→World needs more DMZ’s
Class terminated after getting Proposal Handout
10:45 a.m.
1) Carpenter, M.C. “The Bug”. Available online: http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/
current/lectures/samson/feedback_mechanisms/index.html
Everyone was present and sometimes you are the bug…”
-M.C. Carpenter
Class Topics:
• Assignments due were to have read chapter four, and to have prepared a “heart felt” response to a question pertaining to a given article
• Due next class was read about proposals online (which we all seemed to have trouble finding), and to start on chapter three of Science and Society
Some Initial Concerns:
• Weltenshuang-“world view”→scientific world should bridge gap with social world
• Our book tries to convey different ideas/theories within the scientific world, but addresses to the all
Articles/Questions Addressed by Students:
• 3 people addressed Leopold→ as well as the whole class has experienced a dying pet or animal, at one point or another
-1lb of coal lights a house lamp per week
• 1 person addressed “Ice Memory”→ talked of uncertainty of climatic events, erratic until present
-Was the establishment of Iceland luck, or just Vikings? Erik the Red 1150 ad→ Parents fled Norway
• 5 people answered questions for “Warm, Warmer, Warmest”
-Addressed feedback loops→Any change in the environment leading to additional and enhanced changes in that system is the result of a positive feedback mechanism(1)
-Most of us are a part of the current positive one
-Present connections, think in the here and now→ would this reasoning help?
-Would anyone give up the luxuries (security) they have?
-Not going to get rid of hardcore conservatives any time soon (brainwashing?)
• 0 people addressed “Frankenfoods”
-Forced farming→ Who does it benefit?
-Monsanto or “Monster Manipulators”
-Do we even need chickens anymore?
• 2 individuals answered for “Easter Island”
-Small Earth in a sense→ May be what is happening to our present world today (on a larger scale but still do not realize it)
-Who will become a cannibal?
-Retrospect→ life expectancy, political figures/structures
• The rest of us did “Earth Without People”
-Visual article, able to “emotionally engage”→World needs more DMZ’s
Class terminated after getting Proposal Handout
10:45 a.m.
1) Carpenter, M.C. “The Bug”. Available online: http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/
current/lectures/samson/feedback_mechanisms/index.html
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