by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 10, 2017 | agroecology, animals, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Bureaucratic quixotic, Communication, conservation, deep ecology, Interspecies Communication, permaculture, Perverse Incentives, Plants, Priorities, Side-effects, Systems thinking
With such a provocative title as “Pet Ownership Protects Us Against Allergies,” UCSF’s Dr. Homer Boushey makes the claim that children brought up with pets inherit some of their protective microbes that mitigate against developing allergies....
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Because we currently live in a throw-away economy, with devastating impacts on our psychology, social relationships, health, and environment, evolving away from this paradigm is paramount for our survival. The invention of cheap plastics in the 1950s seemed like a...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 2, 2017 | beyond liberalism, Discursive Gap, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, normalization, Oil Barons, parasitism, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Priorities, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
Cognitive dissonance is a phenomena common amongst human beings who want to have their cake and eat it too. It comes from a willing ignorance to repress and suppress the world’s inconvenient truths and hold onto the frame (or fairytale) one inhabits (or chooses)...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 28, 2017 | Bureaucratic quixotic, exploitation, parasitism, Wolves in sheep's clothing
Although many young academics rightfully complain of being used for their expertise while failing to receive either the remuneration or job security fitting to their contribution, it is always humorous to hear statements that openly admit this unspoken condition. Upon...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
In wake of the recent racially-motivated and anti-woman murder and maimings in Charlottesville, I’ve written a Medium article “Charlottesville is just around the corner” about the projected invasion of San Francisco and Berkeley this weekend by...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
To cut through the very successful and rhetorically effective branding by fascists, I’ve developed a handy guide (to be expanded): (Alt-Fact) vs. (Brutal Reality) “Alt-Right” = NeoNazi “Snowflake” = Not interested in dehumanizing people;...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 17, 2017 | beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, normalization, philosophy of science, Priorities, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Uncategorized, Wolves in sheep's clothing
Today, with co-authors Pamela M. Ling and Jesse Elias, our paper “The Pharmaceuticalization of the Tobacco Industry” appears in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Our interview with Reuters is available here. This work contributes to the study of industrial...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 12, 2017 | beyond liberalism, cruelty, Discursive Gap, Uncategorized
A recent article I wrote for The Philosophical Salon can be found here. Titled “Not an Era for Apologetics,” it looks at the systematic bullying of university students by alt-right pseudo-intellectuals, and the reinforcement of hegemonic discourse in the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dear Europe, It’s been a lovely trip. We hiked in the Austrian Alps, swam in the Baltic sea, and enjoyed the joyful chaos of Fête de la Musique in Berlin. Despite these beguiling adventures, I remain puzzled. You seem to have given a full monopoly of clear...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 6, 2017 | Biosemiotics, Communication, philosophy of science, Plants, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
In case you missed it, a chapter in Michael Marder’s Minnesota Press book Grafts on plant philosophy contains a short piece we wrote together.
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’m happy to announce that the Biosemiotic Ethics special issue in the Zeitschrift für Semiotik I co-edited with Morten Tønnessen and Jonathan Beever has come out. It’s got the great semiotician John Deeley’s last article in it he wrote before...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 11, 2017 | Biosemiotics, Climate Change, Communication, Conferences, Interspecies Communication, Priorities, Systems thinking, Talks, Uncategorized
I’m honored to be presenting on “The Ecological Self: Harnessing the Power of Our Interspecies Nature for Good” alongside Flow author and psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi this Saturday, May 13th 2017 at the Creative Edge Conference organized by...
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,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 6, 2017 | animals, Biosemiotics, Climate Change, Interspecies Communication, philosophy of science, pollution, Systems thinking, Talks, Uncategorized
For those in the San Francisco bay area, I will be giving a 15-minute presentation Thursday April 27th 7:30-9:30pm at the TechShop on “The effects of pollution on organism signaling and human health.” TechShop 926 Howard Street San Francisco California 94103 Taste of...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
In UCSF’s local online news source Synapse, I have an article about why its a good idea for preventative medicine not to axe the Chancellor’s Concert Series here.
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 21, 2017 | Perverse Incentives, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
“It was widely believed thalidomide would be useful to control morning sickness. It did – but it did other things, too. We need evidence, but unregulated marketing does not help us get needed data.” –A colleague at UCSF The epidemic of reductionism...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 14, 2017 | Climate Change, deus ex machina, folly, philosophy of science, Priorities
Today at UCSF, I had the chance to hear Michael Specter deliver the 2017 Chauncey D. Leake Lecture: “Do Facts Still Matter? And What Does It Mean If They Don’t?” It brought out all of San Francisco’s good liberals, concerned about Trump’s...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’ve been seeing on social media a new meme, which I had already been thinking about for sometime. I found it compelling, because it is true: the virtue of solidarity is lost on Americans. Unlike a more communal society that is of the belief that we cannot truly...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’m excited to share my research interests with a more diverse audience February 19th at Terra’s Temple, an earth-based spirituality center and place of dedicated practice in Berkeley. This translation process of academic research into practical knowledge...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
Last Tuesday evening, November 29, 2016, I had the honor to present at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF), in Tijuana, Mexico. Through UCSD’s Interdisciplinary Forum on Environmental Research supported by the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation...
