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How dangerous really is horse riding and sports like eventing? While there are risks, they can be managed, especially if we learn to understand horses better.
Cities’ metros and subways are threatened by rising flood risks but innovative engineering could protect them.
Two very similar new carbon nanotube products, released eight years apart, provoked very different reactions. What’s changed about the way we consider nanotechnology risks and benefits?
The deadly terror attack in Brussels raises the issue of safety and security at airports. But this is more about our approach to risk in any areas where people are known to gather.
Landslide researchers continue to learn more about how and where these events occur. It’s trickier to figure out how to minimize potential damage to human communities from future landslides.
America’s low-income but high-achieving kids fail to find the necessary resources, and consequently fall behind. This has huge implications for innovation as well as the GDP.
Remediation will never get radiation to zero in the area affected by the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant. Rather than safety, the conversation should focus on acceptable risk.
Relative risk is the risk one group of people has of developing a cancer compared to the risk of another group.
Doctors in South Africa have not been doing enough counselling of people who drink, smoke, don’t exercise and eat badly on ways to change their lifestyles.
Insecticides and mosquito nets only get you so far. Synthetic biologists are ready to take the battle against mosquito-borne disease to the level of DNA – which might spell the insects’ ultimate doom.
Food and water crises, energy price shocks and extreme weather are all problems for business – it’s time companies did more to tackle them
Research suggests that universities in South Africa haven’t paid much attention to the potential harm that social media could cause - and the benefits it could create.
After steam, electricity and computers come cyber-physical systems: the fourth industrial revolution. A new book by the World Economic Forum’s founder foresees a rosy future – but that’ll take work.
Taking a page from the innovators’ handbook could provide a different and better way to think about the risks that come along with – and sometimes stem from – new technologies.
Maths! It can turn poor darts players into slightly better ones.
We’ve missed plenty of early warnings about past scientific breakthroughs. Is it neo-Luddite to proceed with caution as an innovator?
New FAA guidelines call for consumers to register drones over a certain weight. As more and more drones take to the skies, we’ll see how amateur use influences the development of UAS technologies.
The innovation report fails to mention the risk of bias for researchers collaborating with industry. We must ensure that researchers maintain their independence.
We accept the risks of flooding because the costs of making our towns and cities flood-proof are too high.
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Risk Management, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Miami
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Alabama
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Associate Professor of Economics, HEC Paris Business School
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
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Professor, Finance, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Professor - Risk governance, culture, remuneration, Macquarie University
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Professeur, philosophe et politologue, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL
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Senior Visiting Fellow, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney
