Comments on: On A Planetary Scale

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:42:28 +0000

Thanks, Elisabet! I will check it out. (The book, not the conference. I’m some distance from Edmonton.) In my last lecture for the course I tried to draw parallels between the “oxygen revolution” of our bacterial ancestors and the environmental transformations of our own time. (A story I drew mostly from J.H. & Wm. McNeill’s The Human Web and Steven Johnson’s The Invention of Air.)

By: Elisabet Sahtouris

Elisabet Sahtouris — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:33:19 +0000

Hi Rob… Love your Big Pic teachings! My book EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution might be of some interest to you in teaching your course if you want to see how bacterial ancestors previewed globalization, etc. I will be keynoting 2nd Canadian Conference on Strategic Foresight in Edmonton CA Oct 28-30.

By: Are Whales Fish?

Are Whales Fish? — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:41:43 +0000

[...] of history into twelve action-packed lectures, Bill Turkel has passed me the baton in our course on Science, Technology, and Global History. I gave my first real lecture last week (I filled in once back in October) on a critical subject: [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:08:33 +0000

All are welcome! But don’t think that reading my blog grabs you any extra grades…

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:47:56 +0000

Yes, I’d like to drop by too. (Actually, I’m on campus so this should be possible, assuming that I’m not teaching at the same time.)

By: Jess Nevins

Jess Nevins — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:20:27 +0000

You need to arrange some sort of distance-learning thing so that I can take the course.

Please?

By: The Constructivist

The Constructivist — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:43:03 +0000

Would you write my department chair and university president and explain why I must take next year off to just take this course? Please?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:09:34 +0000

Please tell me you’re planning on recording the lectures for a series of podcasts!