Weekly Pose Ponder No. 11

Summarizing the week's posts -- a couple on political thought, an inspiring urban renewal project, and a scientific bombshell

Apr 20, 2024

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A bit lighter week, only four posts. Nothing too awful heavy, but some thought provokers.

How’s your Spring springing? It’s gorgeous here in New Mexico.

Progressive History

Tracy Gustilo

Apr 16

Some musings on a book about Progressive historians: Bradley Watson's Progressivism: the Strange History of a Radical Idea.

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Wild Mile

Tracy Gustilo

Apr 17

There are so many cool projects going on in the world. Here's one!

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I’m deep into questions of how democracy might handle the Anthropocene. Here are a couple of living case studies. Anthropocene questions are represented by climate. (There are so many other issues, but climate always comes to the fore.) Democracy questions are represented by whether climate change might violate human rights and whether the courts are th…

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Mito, Chloro, and Nitro – Oh my!

Tracy Gustilo

Apr 19

Scientists have discovered a major evolutionary leap, of the kind that's only happened three times in the history of life of our planet.

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Pose Ponder

Progressive History

Wild Mile

Courts & Climate

Mito, Chloro, and Nitro – Oh my!

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