by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 27, 2017 | Biosemiotics, Climate Change, Communication, pollution, Talks, Uncategorized
Tonight at the San Francisco Taste of Science Festival, I’ll be giving a talk on “The effects of pollution on organism signaling and human health” at the San Francisco: Climate Change evening. Thursday, April 27, 2017 7:30pm 9:30pm TechShop...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 25, 2017 | beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, parasitism, Uncategorized
Vermont US Senator Bernie Sanders’ remarks calling for UC Berkeley to go ahead and permit the alt-right darling Ann Coulter speak despite the recent violence of neonazis descending on Berkeley and harming local citizens have been spread across the internet by...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
Here’s a guest blog post I did on the US Action on Smoking and Health website for Earth Day, titled “For an Earth Free of Tobacco Waste.” This work came out of the World Health Organization (WHO) chapter I wrote in the forthcoming The Environmental...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 22, 2017 | Bureaucratic quixotic, cruelty, death, Discursive Gap, folly, Priorities, Uncategorized
Irony: UCSF sends employees an email warning of the thousands of people descending on Golden Gate Park to celebrate the annual 4/20 Cheech and Chong-inspired marijuana fest, but UC Berkeley sends out no notice to its employees and students that hundreds of violent...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 18, 2017 | beyond idealism, object-oriented-ontology, the real, Uncategorized
Philip K. Dick once wrote: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away” (“How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later”, 1978). It is so tempting, as academics, activists, or advertisers,...
