CV Pandemic Daily Notes 201214, 201215, 201216, 201217, 201218, 201219, 201220
-1. Beyond Biology, Anthromes, 2. Russia, UN Bioweapons Investigations, 3. Corn Domestication, 4. Archaeology of French Mass Graves from Plague, 4.1. Plague Vaccine Mixup
-1. In many ways homo sap has pushed outside the envelope of the biosphere of its origins. Able to live in environments that other great apes are unable to survive in (whilst destroying what remains of their cousins), replaced instincts and learned skills with accumulated knowledge (language), creating habitats (anthromes). All of these are based on biology and the interactions of the biosphere, but go well beyond the limits of random gene selection.
-A. Humans, however, are still biological entities. They still must have a habitat that supplies for its physiological needs, but their foibles and fortes of evolution remain. They still cannot live in environments that are outside a certain range of temperatures, nutritional needs and contaminations. Some of this is accomplished by creating even more artificial ecologies and cultures to provides for and mitigate technosphere creations. This ability to adapt to anything is limited by increasing conflicts between human biology and psychology, with what they create via technology and ideology, harming both the biosphere and anthropospheres, resulting in even more selective pressures for survival, that develop even more omnicidal potentials.
-B. Mankind still has not acquired and developed the knowledge needed to manage either themselves or the anthropo and natural environments that they live within. We are getting closer to such knowledge, in part because by pushing so many systems beyond breaking points, one learns how they work and interact with other systems. The harder step will be creating mitigating measures and adopting them. This step will require accepting responsibilities to others and that humans are no where as important as they consider themselves.
-2. What Journalists Need to Know When Covering Climate Change. Whenever extreme weather occurs people often ask, did climate change cause that. Scientists will say that’s the wrong question. The way to think about it is, Did climate change make it worse. In many cases, climate science is already answering that question.
-3. Ancient DNA Continues to Rewrite Corn's 9,000 Year Society Shaping History. Some 9,000 years ago, corn as it is known today did not exist. Ancient peoples in southwestern Mexico encountered a wild grass called teosinte that offered ears smaller than a pinky finger with just a handful of stony kernels. But by stroke of genius or necessity, these Indigenous cultivators saw potential in the grain, adding it to their diets and putting it on a path to become a domesticated crop that now feeds billions.
-A. Domestication – the evolution of wild plants over thousands of years into the crops that feed us today – is arguably the most significant process in human history, and maize is one of the most important crops currently grown on the planet. The Environmental Impact of Corn, Industrial Corn Farming Is Ruining Our Health and Polluting Our Watersheds. How Ancient DNA Unearths Corn’s A-maize-ing History.
-4. The Archaeology of the Second Plague Pandemic: An Overview of French Funerary Contexts. Over the last 20 years, several plague mass graves have been unearthed in France, thus enhancing our knowledge of historical plague pandemics. Moreover, recent archaeological and palaeo immunological investigations have shown that abruptmortality crises caused by plague have been handled differently in urban and rural communities. In this paper, we report on the different funerary contexts and the related practices adopted by some French urban and rural communities during the Second Pandemic (1348-1722 CE)*A. 201215-CV15.2A *B.
-*A. This second global wave of Plague includes of the European epidemics and surges known as the Black Death. The first global wave dates from 541-704 CE until in went into dormancy (with some outbreaks until 1347. The Third Pandemic global wave began about 1894-Present, albeit the outbreaks are more controlled with modern medicine and public health, largely limited to zoodemics that sometimes spill over. The History of Plague – Part 1. The Three Great Pandemics.
-*B. If one looks for the stub in the PDN link one may not find it. The curator is going to be cleaning up, adding and editing the 2020 notes. Likely this will take a year to do. 201218-CV28.
-4.1. The Deadly Bilibid Prison Vaccine Trials. In 1906, physician Richard Strong's already unethical vaccine experiment went horribly wrong. Then it was swept under the rug.
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