Tag: Risk
California needs to rethink urban fire risk after wine country tragedy
Max Moritz, University of California, Berkeley
We recently witnessed the wind-driven Tubbs fire blast its way through densely urbanized neighborhoods in Northern California, causing dozens...
Curbing climate change: Why it’s so hard to act in time
Timothy H. Dixon, University of South Florida
This summer I worked on the Greenland ice sheet, part of a scientific experiment to study surface melting...
Energy drinks and alcohol, a risky mix… psychologically
Pierre Chandon, INSEAD – Sorbonne Universités; Aradhna Krishna, University of Michigan, and Yann Cornil, University of British Columbia
People who add energy drinks...
Machine learning and big data know it wasn’t you who just...
Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University
You’re sitting at home minding your own business when you get a call from your credit card’s fraud detection unit...
This simple proposal could reduce risk taking at big banks
By Joel Shapiro, University of Oxford
It has long been a goal of investors and corporate governance experts to make sure our business leaders aren’t...
EXPLORING NATURE
How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple –...
Shelley Mitchell, Oklahoma State University
Pecans, America’s only native major nut, have a storied history in the United States....
