September 18, 2007

“Transportation Revolutions” – Ruth S. Cowan; America as Second Creation – David E. Nye: chapter 7 (147-152)

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September 24, 2007

America as Second Creation – David E. Nye: chapter 7 (152-173)

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September 25, 2007

America as Second Creation – David E. Nye: chapter 8; "Sounds" – Henry Thoreau

September 27, 2007

"Automobiles and Automobility" – Ruth S. Cowan; “Roads Belong in the Landscape” – J.B. Jackson

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October 02, 2007

“Industrial Tourism and the National Parks” – Edward Abbey; “The Car and the Road” – Alexander Wilson

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October 04, 2007

The End of Suburbia

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October 09, 2007

Presentations

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October 16, 2007

The Alaska Pipeline; "Nature Devastated" - Donald Worster

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October 23, 2007

America as Second Creation – David E. Nye: chapters 5 & 6

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October 30, 2007

Mill City Museum; “Why Not Electricity?” – S. Scott & K. Pellman

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November 06, 2007

“Mobile Telephony...” – Imar de Vries; “How Americans Use Their Cell Phones” –L. Rainie, S. Keeter; “The world's a cell-phone stage” - Ryan Kim

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November 13, 2007

"Doing What Came Naturally: The Home Computer" – Merritt Ierley; "Why I am not going to buy a computer" - Wendell Berry; "20 days without a pc" - David Luke

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November 20, 2007

“We are the Web” – Kevin Kelly; “How much does the internet weigh?” – Stephan Cass

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November 27, 2007

“Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing Community into Being on Social Network Sites” - Danah Boyd; “Facing the Facebook” – Michael Bugeja;“A Dad’s Encounter with the Vortex of Facebook” – Michael Duffy

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December 06, 2007

"Comfort" - Aldous Huxley; The Corrections (a selection) - J Franzen

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