Don't give up now -- that's Dr. Lucy Jones's advice to dealing with the latest COVID19 surge. Our feelings aren't what the risk actually is because as humans, we have evolved with two systems for analyzing risks we face. Dr. Jones shares the pros and cons of "going with your gut" as it relates to managing risks and explains why we don't want to believe experts telling us not to have Thanksgiving. We look at how greater benefits appear to lower the risk and discuss ways to manage the emotional conflict with the analytical response in order to get through the extremes, like the current surge in COVID19 cases in California and across the US.
Episode 117 - Hurricane Season
Episode 116 - What the U.S. Can Learn From Earthquakes in Turkey
Episode 115 - The Reality of Atmospheric Rivers
Episode 114 - All About Liquefaction
Episode 113 - The Value of Retrofits
Episode 112 - Happening Right Now: More Extreme Disaster Events
Episode 111 - Tempo
Episode 110 - When You Have a Lot of Earthquakes, You Have a Lot of Earthquakes
Episode 109 - Why Are Schools Safer?
Episode 108 - Weak Faults Have Bigger Earthquakes
Episode 107 - The Misconception of the ”Massive” Earthquake
Episode 106 - What We Can Learn from New Zealand
Episode 105 - Looking for Anomalies in All the Wrong Places
Episode 104 - The Dangerous Myth of the “Ring of Fire”
Episode 103 - Pandemic Randomness
Episode 102 - Human History of Random Thoughts
Episode 101 - Random Acts of Shaking
Episode 100 - The Magic Eyes of the Geologist
Episode 99 - Why Plate Tectonics Matters to You
Episode 98 - Is It Too Late to Cool the Earth?
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