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...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 20, 2017 | death, Discursive Gap, folly, Industrial Epidemics, normalization, Oil Barons, pollution, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
I recently published an article in Berkeley’s newspaper, Berkeleyside, about the incessant overhead air traffic, and how this likely is causing significant public health effects. Here’s the evidence base: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25332277...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
I am very pleased to announce that the Eighteenth Annual Biosemiotics Gathering will take place at the University of California Berkeley’s elegant International House grand auditorium June 17-20, 2018. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Terry Deacon and...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 30, 2017 | animals, Bees, Biomimicry, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Communication, Interspecies Communication, Talks
This Thursday, November 2, 2017, from 6-10pm, I’m very pleased to be presenting my work on interspecies seeing at the California Academy of Sciences. Their NightLife series, where the CAS becomes a 21+ venue for cocktail-fueled science, exhibits cutting-edge...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 25, 2017 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Climate Change, Discursive Gap, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Industrial Epidemics, Oil Barons, parasitism, permaculture, pollution, Priorities, Systems thinking
One of the things that resonates the most about systems theory, is that it focuses on how different pieces of large puzzles interrelate and interlock. For, it is the inter aspect that gives phenomena movement, gusto, dynamism, spark. Speaking of things, essences,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 4, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Publications, Uncategorized
The 2016 Oxford University Press book The Greening of Everyday Life: Challenging Practices, Imagining Possibilities I contributed a chapter to on “Bicycling and the Politics of Recognition,” has received a kind review from environmental philosopher Robert...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 29, 2017 | Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry, Uncategorized
In an ongoing effort to compile the corruption of science and politics by short-sighted, manipulative industries, I am beginning to list the sites that document industrial epidemics. Enjoy! CLIMATE http://climateinvestigations.org http://www.climatefiles.com MONSANTO...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 19, 2017 | Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Industrial Epidemics, Oil Barons, Priorities
A good friend of mine, from Austria of all places, found herself in Miami amongst the evacuations. She posted to Facebook: Thank you everyone for your sweet messages! Yes – I am still in Miami and not sure if I have a chance to leave before the hurricane hits...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 11, 2017 | Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Talks, Tobacco Industry
CANCER CENTER TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAM SEMINAR Does the Tobacco Industry have its own Endgame? The pharmaceuticalization of the tobacco industry and implications for public health Yogi Hale Hendlin, PhD Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 3:00 – 4:30 pm CTCRE, Kalmanovitz...
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...
