Research Perspectives / Public Policy / Social Science
Lost Person Behavior Facts | 4 Ways to Make it Easier to Be Found | SDP184
Between 2004 and 2014, in the US National Parks alone, there were 46,609 individuals who became lost and required a search and rescue campaign, which cost about $51.4 million in total (Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2018 NCIC Missing Person and Unidentified Person Statistics. Tech. Rep., National Crime Information Center). What are characteristics of lost persons…
Read More$50K Bonus for Teachers | Unpacking Educator Free Agency | SDP183
Des Moines Public Schools is offering a $50,000 incentive to teachers, nurses, and administrators who are nearing retirement to stay with the district through the 2022-2023 school year. A few states over, Michigan’s Jackson Public Schools is offering a $10,000 signing bonus for new teachers willing to stay at least two years. Unheard of five…
Read MoreBipartisan Safer Communities Bill | Biggest Impacts on School Safety | SDP182
Doc highlights what has changed in school safety since the May 24, 2022, Robb Elementary School shooting that ended the lives of 19 students and 2 teachers in Uvalde, Texas. He interprets how schools will be impacted by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (signed into federal law July, 2022). Doc peruses each website to critically…
Read MoreSmoky Mountains Wildfire | The Collapse of Physical Time | The Velocity of Information | SDP180
[Podcast] It is legally recognized that time is cleanly divided into years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. But in certain chaos conditions, the construct of time might distort and collapse into what is known as a flow state. All that matters is the moment. And while we convince ourselves that we will observe…
Read MoreMeasuring the Wet Bulb Effect on Attention and Information | The Velocity of Information | SDP177
[Podcast] Stagnant, sweltering summer days cocoon us with unshakable pulsing heat and sticky humidity in what is known as a wet bulb effect. It’s downright uncomfortable. Our attention deviates from things at hand and centers on making an escape to our air-conditioned cars and dwellings, but the reprieve is temporary – and some of us…
Read MoreDeep Fakes and False Takes | The Velocity of Information | David P. Perrodin | SDP176
[Podcast] In June, 2019, U.S. lawmakers held their first hearing devoted primarily to the threat of artificially generated imagery. Then in October, 2019, California banned political deep fakes during election season. But, such actions have raised questions. What might be consequences looming at the intersection of deep fakes and public policy? DIRECT LINK to MP3…
Read MoreBreaking Parkinson’s Law in Chicago | The Velocity of Information | David P. Perrodin | SDP175
[Podcast] Remember fiddling around until the final hour to hunker down and complete an assignment for school or a project for work – even though you knew of the deadline for weeks? There you were, confident you could serviceably complete the task and submit it in a nick of time. Welcome to Parkinson’s Law! DIRECT…
Read MoreCrisis vs. Chaos | Bifurcation and Strange Attractors | The Velocity of Information | SDP174
[Podcast] What are the differences between crisis and chaos? Is a sudden bifurcation better than a gradual bifurcation? How might a “strange attractor” contribute to the sometimes long duration, and difficult-to-recognize, patterns in chaos? Doc will discuss these questions and read an excerpt pertaining to them from his book ‘The Velocity of Information: Human Thinking…
Read MoreComorbid Chaos | 90 Days of Uncertain Times | Velocity of Information | David P. Perrodin | SDP173
[Podcast] What is comorbid chaos, how is it different from other types of chaos, and what are its consequences for societies and individuals? Doc explains the markers of uncertain times and reads an excerpt from his book, The Velocity of Information: Human Thinking During Chaotic Times. DIRECT LINK to MP3 of this Episode: https://tinyurl.com/SDP173-AUDIO COMORBID CHAOS.…
Read MoreUnpacking Normal Box Theory | Perception of Normality is Everything | Guest Lee Jarvis | SDP171
[Podcast] Guest William Wesley Lee Jarvis returns to the show to discuss “Normal Box Theory”in society and how it applies to how people, and cultures in identifying the illusion of priorities. What is “thinking in averages?” Why is perception of normality everything? What are counter-processes and fixes? How do we analyze processes of culture relative…
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