Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
For example, omission bias occurs when people tend to view harms from the act commission (actions) as more excellent than harms from omission (inactions); confirmation bias refers to the finding that strong initial beliefs are resistant to change because they influence how subsequent information is...
Min Jin Lee:Well, I don’t forget people in the corners of the room. I think when you’re in New Yorker, you are always aware of how many people it takes to make this thing happen. You live in such proximity to so many people who are different than you in terms of every choic...
In 2017, flood-driven landslides in Sierra Leone claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people and left thousands homeless, many to this day. Torrential rains that hit Somalia in 1997 caused more than 2,000 deaths and displaced 250,000 people. The Ethiopian drought of 1983-84, which caused...
Globally, more than 117 million people have been displaced due to poverty, food instability, and natural disasters. This staggering statistic represents 1 in every 70 people in the world. A disproportionate number of these are women and children displaced by war and conflict. ...
Many communities will get displaced. There'll be a lot more forced migration, either because places are inundated or the crops or the livelihoods that people relied on, they can no longer do. MacArthur: What we can do now to adapt? Lempert: The high-level thing is that communities across...
And these are just ideas that may not be great. But I think the plea from your question is much more to focus on, why not experiment with many things to see what can work? A few things could happen. If we believe that social security has to be adapted, inst...
And these are just ideas that may not be great. But I think the plea from your question is much more to focus on, why not experiment with many things to see what can work? A few things could happen. If we believe that social security has to be adapted, instead of giving peopl...
In firefighting every second counts – it is critical to respond quickly and effectively. But many firefighters are hampered by ageing equipment and inadequate budgets. The report emphasizes that government ministries must respond to the need for funding to boost budgets, modernize departments and upgr...
Because people with lower incomes spend a larger portion of their earnings on clothes and other goods that are cheaper to import than to produce domestically, they would probably suffer the most from a turn towardsprotectionism—just as many of them did from trade liberalization. According to a ...