The World the Plague Made

Belich, James

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“…Preventative and moral medicine needs to avoid being accomplices amongst the geopolitical chaos and speak and act up over malnutrition and pandemic avoidance with safer meat supplies-and in keeping with Ernest Hemmingway's "if the story is so simple it can be said in 6 words" and to avoid the weight of circumstantial but (we hope) percipient material dragging our argument down we say loud and clear Square Meals-Poverty and Pandemics Gone. The lesson of the Black Death or of imports from "settler colonies" is that doubling meat intake for the peasants creates "Golden Ages" with more equality of early developmental outcomes and opportunities but this could be done without more plagues or creating more third worlds in the post-colonial age that could "boomerang" [453,454]. As a critique of development policies, states: the silence on unequal (metabolic) rights for rich and poor made unequal by dietary not genetic or cultural "tangles of pathology",-and the lack of trust to make their own subsistence and other decisions has to end with less emphasis on blaming the victims and punishing laws and orders [455].…”

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Pellagra: Down Not Out If Down and Out (and South) – Part 2

Williams¹,

Wood²,

Hill³

2024

Vitamin B and Vitamin E - Pleiotropic and Nutritional Benefits

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North-South variation in the supply of meat has always been present. Sharing of meat was the rule but in the multi-centric Neolithic revolution when domestication of animals and plants co-evolved class differences became pronounced-aristocrats and inferior proletariats and “lesser breeds and lower orders” started to form. The distribution of natural domesticates was uneven with the near-east and a temperate band across Europe well off compared with Africa and the Americas. The Columbian exchange changed this as meat became abundant in the New World who then exported to Europe. Wars, expropriations and genocides were over the meat supply and acquiring pastureland or water. Colonial plantation profits paid for meat imports from “settler colonies” indigenous or poor peoples on low meat pro-pellagrous diets were considered inferior whatever their colour and had poorer health and life expectancy. Attempts to correct hunger in the resultant ramshackle “Third world” concentrated on calories fuelling population booms and busts and delaying demographic, epidemiological and economic transitions. High meat variances are narrowing in China and Asia but need help elsewhere in the South. Dangers of not developing with a safe and sufficient meat supply include the emergence of zoonoses and mass migration. Reparations, rehabilitation and rejuvenation should concentrate on reconstituting a meat commons giving us a shot at redemption and survival.

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Pellagra: Down Not Out If Down and Out (and South) – Part 2

Williams¹,

Wood²,

Hill³

2024

Vitamin B and Vitamin E - Pleiotropic and Nutritional Benefits

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“…Historians also point out that disease, including pandemics, has not necessarily resulted in political instability (de Waal, 2010;Wever & van Bergen, 2014). There are broad historical transformations in which infectious disease is asserted to have led to beneficial outcomes, such as the rise of new economic structures and the modern European world in the wake of the Yersinia pestis pandemic, better known as the Black Death (Belich, 2022;Cantor, 2001;Jedwab et al, 2022).…”

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How COVID-19 is reshaping U.S. national security policy

Kosal

2023

Polit. life sci.

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is actively reshaping parts of its national security enterprise. This article explores the underlying politics, with a specific interest in the context of biosecurity, biodefense, and bioterrorism strategy, programs, and response, as the United States responds to the most significant outbreak of an emerging infectious disease in over a century. How the implicit or tacit failure to recognize the political will and political decision-making connected to warfare and conflict for biological weapons programs in these trends is explored. Securitization of public health has been a focus of the literature over the past half century. This recent trend may represent something of an inverse: an attempt to treat national security interests as public health problems. A hypothesis is that the most significant underrecognized problem associated with COVID-19 is disinformation and the weakening of confidence in institutions, including governments, and how adversaries may exploit that blind spot.

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“…One interesting example of creativity becoming vibrant in the face of constraints comes from what was arguably the world's worst pandemic, the Black Death that began in 1346 [59]. This plague exterminated half of the population in many regions and caused enormous suffering.…”

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Interdisciplinary Insights That Reveal Contextual Influences on the Development of Giftedness and Talent

Ambrose

2023

Education Sciences

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There are powerful, hidden contextual influences that strengthen, weaken, or distort the discovery of aspirations and the development of talents in gifted individuals. These influences can be hidden from gifted individuals and their teachers and mentors because they are not sufficiently addressed in the gifted education research literature. This analysis highlights and describes examples of contextual influences that emerge from phenomena studied by scholars in a wide variety of fields. After these examples are presented and clarified, recommendations for educators and scholars of the gifted are provided.

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The World the Plague Made

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Pellagra: Down Not Out If Down and Out (and South) – Part 2

Pellagra: Down Not Out If Down and Out (and South) – Part 2

How COVID-19 is reshaping U.S. national security policy

Interdisciplinary Insights That Reveal Contextual Influences on the Development of Giftedness and Talent

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