Which came first. That is an important question in legal and game contexts. However, in science this is an unimportant distinction as there are better questions to ask that would give more insights. Continue reading

-Excerpt: In researching biocalamities that devolve into parademics, social and biosphere chaos is consistently present with the biocrisis. Diving deeper into chaos it is disturbing to note that chaos is an universal constant norm, not an occasional anomaly in an otherwise stable universe. Chaos is an oscillation of only a few degrees of difference between what appears stable to human limited perceptions. Chaos as a persistent temporary state that is tenuous and precarious dynamic equilibriums. The law of inevitable entropy will eventually always cross tipping points into extinction that rebound to eventually tip again. The oscillations between the states of nonexistence that are utterly stable and the absolute chaos of existence there is a narrow range of the universe(s) that creates, stimulates, sustains, ends and regenerates that ineffable state of being that humans label life. Continue reading

Parademic interrelations from open source media for week prior to 240623 (June 23, 2024). Continue reading

Parademic interrelations from open source media for week prior to 240616 (June, 16, 2024). Continue reading

Restarting Parademic Weekly Notes (PWN). The research, literature and articles on the interaction of people/ society and health/ environment is improving with inclusive accessible knowledge for the lay public – at least for the majority who appear to have improving critical thinking skills and consider long chain consequences. What is still missing from available media is making the connections between topics that appear unrelated. Hopefully PWN will fill that need despite that it will still appear disorganized until the patterns and relations become familiar. The single subject synthesis posting will continue but the self imposed deadline of producing one a week is unrealistic. Continue reading

Disease outbreaks and natural disasters consistently attract and accelerate scams, frauds, pseudoscience, Othering, quackery. This post explores Means, Motives and Opportunity for exploiting the vulnerable from biocalamities and social disruption of those who are least able to weather even more loss and emotional manipulation of hope/ fear/ guilt/ addiction/ shame. Continue reading

-Excerpt: Denial was a popular label for those who refused to consider evidence of environmental change, destruction of the biosphere and increasing frequency and lethality of disease. Biocrisis planning needs to include the problem of denial as both a cause and persistence of accelerating biocalamity and parademic. Continue reading

What happens when an alien microbiosphere consisting of a single cell microbe that covers the whole planet surface encounters macrobes with more complex internal microbiomes. Continue reading

The way information is categorized influences perception and interpretation of what the information means in relation to other information. The communication of this synthesized information becomes a wicked problem if the categories and vocabulary are unfamiliar, are possibly in conflict with other systems of organization of information and if the information is of low priority. It can take centuries to develop taxonomic systems to categorize what belongs where. There is always the possibility that new information can cause the collapse of a paradigm, or worse result in a backfire effect where the knowledge of a taxonomy that is no longer valid becomes intransigent to adapt and survive. Continue reading

Parademic information for planning is both mundane and exotic. The effects of this spectrum tend to be ephemeral microbes through to biospheres, which rapidly change and/or stagnate. The different forms of transportation that humans use assure pathogenic spread. Continue reading

There is an elegant beauty when complex concepts and solutions to wicked problems can be communicated to lay audiences. This is rarely achieved with oversimplifications that misrepresent the concept and/or make a wicked problem more vicious. Available communication mediums and skills may not be up to the task, of used by the unscrupulous despite potential harm. The brilliance of an explanation may be misleading if not completely wrong. Over time cumulative understanding and contrary experiences can reveal flaws and fallacious logical limitations. Continue reading

Will there ever be circumstances when contributing human decisions (parademic) that lead to a cascading global catastrophic accelerated biocalamity will have neutral impact, possibly even positive ones. Continue reading

It is an important safety practice to always point out dangers associated with equipment used to perform tasks, as well as other potential dangers to mitigate or remove before performing a task. Repetition of safety practices is a good habit for those who are around hazards on a daily basis, including disaster responders, medical personnel, whole communities during biocalamities, and when providing humanitarian aid/ consequence management during and after biocrises have resolved into new norms. Continue reading

It is important to always point out potential dangers associated with equipment used to perform tasks, as well as the potential dangers to mitigate or prevent before performing a task. This includes disaster response, biocalamities, and when providing humanitarian aid/ consequence management long after the biocrisis has resolved into new norms Continue reading

The negative applications and connotations of the concept of “race” are public health hazards influencing parademic behaviors and contribute to the acceleration of biocalamities. It is possible to nudge the meaning of “race” via linguistic drift to have a neutral, even beneficial, influence on human behavior in relation toxins, disease and environment. Continue reading

The beauty you see may not be what you would see if you knew more. Continue reading

Deaths and missing people during and after a biocalamity is more of an issue than it would seem. Continue reading

If it happens, a collapse of the biosphere will not directly result in global mass mortality, nor will a biosphere collapse be a sudden event. Biosphere collapse will have, and may already be having knock on effects of slow inanition as it necrotizes through the biomes. Continue reading

The concept of synergy is often taught via the heuristic that “the whole is greater than its parts”. Is this true or is that a partial (mis)understanding of the concept that interferes with a larger and deeper understanding of the synergy of parts when creating a whole. Development of a new whole of systems is likely critical to solve the existential threat of biosphere collapse. However, what makes a whole system that is functional with other interacting open systems is currently ineffable/ incommunicable via linguistics, math, images, experiences. Continue reading

Criticisms about aid and assistance provided for natural/ manmade disasters and disease outbreaks are to be expected. The complaints may be legitimate, but there is almost always a theme that supports an agenda not related to improving the provision of aid. Frankly, much of the aid provided is usually a Band-Aid fix that does not address root causes, systemic problems, consequences of the aid, aid being used to gain concessions, and are political theater to give the appearance that something worthwhile is being done. Continue reading

he most fraught military operations are domestic support. Being in a situation where force may have to be used to enter areas denied life saving measures or where there is widespread physical violence of US Citizens attacking each other are two such minefields. Continue reading

How does learning (behavioral change) occur when emerging conditions dramatically diverge from what is known about people and the biosphere, rendering past information and experience inapplicable, possibly dangerous to follow, There are few models to help anticipate the future of global biocalamities, and even fewer to forecast the parademics of what people will do. Continue reading

When sorrows come, they come not (as) single spies, but in battalions. The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability. Continue reading

Human cognition tends to form categories of what they can perceive of the physical world and life. The categories then have added interpretations that go far beyond descriptions but are interpretative projections adding information that isn’t necessarily inherent parts of the category. Once formed, categories persist in behaviors as if they are immutable. This insistence of using previous categories includes the biosphere as a living system. The interactions of living complex systems are dynamically fluid and constantly changing from previous states, making a priori labels and definitions no longer applicable. As models for how to behave in the context of life, these now inappropriate categories for the current diverging circumstances can cause harm if not discarded or adapted to the reality of the evolving/ collapsing biosphere. Continue reading

Thoughts of individuals and societies are reflected and expressed in their stories and plans, whether fiction or nonfiction. It is also informative when stories and plans change, or are barely developed, resulting in preparations that are too late. Continue reading