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...more complicated than that. John Adams, risk expert and emeritus professor of geography at University College London, was an early skeptic of the seat belt safety mantra. Adams first began to look at the numbers more than 25 years ago. What he found was that contrary to conventional wisdom, mandating the use of seat belts in 18 countries resulted in either no change or actually a net increase in road accident deaths...
...understanding keeps widening between those who create a technology and those affected by it, and a deft writer of fiction can close it because he controls the facts and the narrative, aiming for a satisfying conclusion. The tensions between science and nature, knowledge and wisdom, between what we can do and what we ought to do, have always been great narrative engines. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Birthmark in 1843, in which a brilliant scientist, obsessed with his beautiful wife's Georgiana's tiny handshaped birthmark, is determined to use his vast skills to remove it, and render her perfect...
...miracles, so central to Christian thought, are anathema to the scientific method, as Dawkins reaffirms. "Why am I here?" and "Is there a God?" are questions that cannot be answered by science. God comes to those who have the insight to think in another dimension and have the wisdom of a child. Collins has both; Dawkins has neither...
Hedge funds play an important role in markets by providing liquidity and contributing to the collective wisdom that figures out prices for everything from companies to coffee futures. This function has only proved more important over the past 30 years, as the number and diversity of financial instruments have surged. But there's a dark side. Complexity and linkages across markets--tight coupling, in the language of systems analysts--make problems more likely to spread to other players, such as Wall Street banks, especially since hedge funds often leverage their investments, which magnifies gains. Or losses. "In most areas, risk...
...been on an export drive for more than a decade, particularly with its biggest-selling bottle, a nonvintage Grande Réserve Champagne, made of 60% Pinot Meunier. The Specialist Growers A young new generation of small growers is making a name for itself by challenging conventional wisdom about how to make Champagne. These vignerons reject the use of pesticides, borrow winemaking techniques from Burgundy and produce small-batch cuvées that seek to reflect the particular character of the vines they lovingly tend. At Larmandier-Bernier in Vertus,