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Systemic Risk: What it Means and What we can Do

Systemic Risk: What it Means and What we can Do

by Len Fisher | 19 Sep 2017 | Planning for Life's Crises: Media and Writing

Some basic references for a talk that I delivered to the Aon Benfield conference “Risk Re-imagined” (Gold Coast, Australia, September 18-20 (2017)) IRGC Concept Note “Preparing for Future Catastrophes”...
Making the best decisions

Making the best decisions

by Len Fisher | 31 Jul 2017 | Planning for Life's Crises: Media and Writing

Several years ago I was invited to write a book chapter on how we can make the best decisions in our complex, interconnected world. I wrote the chapter, aimed at a general audience and containing some interesting stories about how Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin,...
Superbowl for politicians

Superbowl for politicians

by Len Fisher | 14 Feb 2017 | Planning for Life's Crises: Media and Writing

Op-ed submitted to Boston Globe after Patriots’ Superbowl LI win. Pity they didn’t take it, but here it is anyway. The message that it contains is rather important; like footballers, politicians need to adapt quickly to circumstances! When wide receiver...
127. How can we cooperate? A new lesson from the bees

127. How can we cooperate? A new lesson from the bees

by Len Fisher | 1 Feb 2017 | Game Theory & You: Media and Writing, Mini Stories from Science, Planning for Life's Crises: Media and Writing

The world is rapidly going down the road of competition rather than cooperation. In doing so, as I have shown in previous posts and in my book Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life, its citizens face the deadly dilemmas exposed by game theory – in...
126. The ethics of game theory: Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby & Mrs Bedonebyasyoudid

126. The ethics of game theory: Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby & Mrs Bedonebyasyoudid

by Len Fisher | 31 Jan 2017 | Game Theory & You: Media and Writing, Mini Stories from Science, Planning for Life's Crises: Media and Writing

I avoid political commentary on this website , but in the current climate (31st January, 2017) I believe that it is very important for as many of us as possible to look dispassionately at what is happening and  try to understand what is going on below the surface...
119. Science in the real world: predicting society

119. Science in the real world: predicting society

by Len Fisher | 30 Jul 2016 | Mini Stories from Science, News, Planning for Life's Crises: Media and Writing

If you think that science, and scientific thinking, have little to do with the rough-and-tumble of the real world, think again – and take a look at this wonderful paper by a group of psychologists and mathematicians from the Cornell-Princeton-Yale triangle...
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