by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 14, 2019 | Aphorisms
With research, be as exhaustive as possible without it becoming exhausting. (March 13, 2019) Superstitions are killing the planet. (Viz., the idea that we need x in order for y to happen or not to happen; that we need more bunkers, armor, weapons, food, etc., in order...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
In Erasmus University Rotterdam’s weekly online magazine Erasmus Magazine, a condensed version of my speech I gave Monday March 4th, 2019 for the Opening Ceremony of the Erasmus Sustainability Days is now published. It’s also available in Dutch [in...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 3, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Talks
March 4th, 2019, I’ll be giving a keynote to 1500 or so students at my home university, Erasmus University Rotterdam, as part of their Sustainability Days. They asked me to be fiery and inspirational, so I’ll try my best. The paper will be put online...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 1, 2019 | agroecology, Conferences, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, folly, glyphosate, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, Plants, pollution, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Talks
My Erasmus University Rotterdam colleague Alessandra Arcuri and I are organizing a day-long workshop on the most used pesticide in the world: glyphosate. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, Monsanto’s flagship herbicide, has been linked with cancer by...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 5, 2019 | Communication, Talks
I’m pleased to be giving my welcome lecture to the students and faculty of the Erasmus School of Philosophy, where I have been an Assistant Professor since November 2018, on March 13, 2019. In this lecture, I will survey my research career thus far, in light of...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 20, 2019 | beyond idealism, Climate Change, conservation, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, Energy, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, normalization, object-oriented-ontology, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Priorities, Side-effects, Systems thinking, the real, Wolves in sheep's clothing
I was perusing Kickstarter when I happened upon a solution to a problem that I didn’t know was that big of a deal: spices going bad. As it turns out, it’s not that big of a deal, it’s what could easily be classified as a “first world...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 20, 2019 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Communication, cruelty, death, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, exploitation, folly, Industrial Epidemics, normalization, Perverse Incentives, Priorities, the real, Wolves in sheep's clothing
There is an epidemic of thoughts and prayers in America. It seems the more politicians think and pray, the more school shootings happen, the more places of worship get gunned and burned down, and the more people die. Maybe to reverse this trend, politicians need to...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
My article, “I Am a Fake Loop: the Effects of Advertising-Based Artificial Selection,” just appeared in the journal Biosemiotics. You can read it here for free. In this piece, I explore Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz’s ethological understandings of...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 15, 2018 | beyond idealism, e-waste, Extended Producer Responsibility, Industrial Epidemics, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry, Uncategorized
My op-ed in the American Journal of Public Health that appeared this week discusses the new tobacco waste stream of electronic cigarette waste. Electronic waste is already the fastest growing waste stream globally. Creating a new product that has no current...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
A couple weeks ago, UCSF launched our newest collection of industry documents. The UCSF Industry Documents archive is a repository of almost one hundred million pages of previously secret industry documents now searchable for the public due to discovery and legal...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
The great American newspapers have shot themselves in the foot. In the race against online media and decentralized user-based content, when they haven’t been bought up by conglomerates with the intention to destroy them or use them as organs of ideology, newspapers...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 12, 2018 | beyond idealism, Climate Change, e-waste, Energy, Extended Producer Responsibility, Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
My new article, “Is This Man the Elon Musk of E-Waste?” in my favorite popular science online magazine Nautilus, describes the Right to Repair movement, and the necessity to move from a linear manufacturing process built on planned and perceived...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 29, 2018 | agroecology, conservation, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Indigenous Peoples, Perverse Incentives, Publications, Uncategorized
As part of my project on land rights in Latin America, a recent paper titled “Environmental justice as a (potentially) hegemonic concept: a historical look at competing interests between the MST and indigenous people in Brazil” appears in Local...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
The 2018 Biosemiotics Gathering at UC Berkeley organized by myself and Terry Deacon takes place June 17-20 at the International House. Please see www.biosemiotics.life for more information. The Biosemiotics schedule can be found here.
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 1, 2018 | death, exploitation, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Publications, Syndemics, Tobacco Industry, Uncategorized
PLOS Medicine just published an article I wrote with Jesse Elias and Pam Ling at UCSF on “Public versus internal conceptions of addiction: An analysis of internal Philip Morris documents.” This article discusses previously secret industry documents...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 30, 2018 | agroecology, Climate Change, Discursive Gap, Industrial Epidemics, parasitism, philosophy of science, pollution, Syndemics, Tobacco Industry, Uncategorized, Wolves in sheep's clothing
Here I will attempt to gather and decode euphemisms (saccharine words covering up the dismal reality, e.g., climate change for global warming) and dysphemisms (derogatory terms for neutral ones, e.g., warmist for people who acknowledge the facts of global warming) of...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
My new lexicon entry in the Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics on “Fungi Ethics” is online. It can be accessed here. Fungi ethics, which is closely allied to plant ethics, describes how fungi–both for better and worse–are forever...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
I am inspired by recycled electronics. IT Asset Partners (ITAP) recently posted a video about it’s ragtag recycled electronic car surpassing in range the major three manufacturers’ (Tesla, Chevy Volt, and Nissan Leaf) top vehicles. ITAP director Eric...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
In the Bay Area, and probably all around California, I have been seen at bus stops and on buses a very disturbing ad. What is disturbing about this advertisement, is that whoever made it failed to understand adolescent psychology. The ad says: Underage drinking and...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 18, 2018 | Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Discursive Gap, Energy, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, folly, Oil Barons, pollution, Priorities, transportation
As the New York Times recently reported, State SenatorScott Weiner’s California Legislature bill to increase density allotments along transit corridors is a much-needed method to solve both housing and environmental burdens. Driving, no matter how you slice it,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Out of the almost 500 shellmounds that existed in the greater bay area, over the last few centuries, these have been systematically destroyed. The Berkeley Shellmound is the earliest of those shellmounds established in the greater Bay Area region by the people...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
One of the great things about empire is it doesn’t attempt to hide its monstrosity. The latest “Military Parade” stunt, normally reserved in Western cultural imaginations for Stalinist USSR, Maoist China, and North Korea, has now come home to roost....
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
I just came upon a great little app/website Are Men Talking Too Much? that is a simple and humorous counter that allows tracking the gender of the person speaking in a meeting. I like this because I am prone to talk too much, and over the years, through great effort,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 26, 2018 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Communication, Systems thinking, the real
There’s this popular pro-science YouTube video. I like it–it’s bold, brash, and has good knock-down arguments. It also espouses a defensive attitude against stances which I too find abhorrent. There’s only one problem with it. It’s wrong....
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Washington Post’s alarming story about teenagers intentionally imbibing Tide detergent “pods” (or “pacs”) due to dares by other teenagers, is not a story about teenagers being dumb, but really one about faulty design. The increasing...
