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 97 - Predicting Earthquakes, California-style
Episode 96 - How the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Changed the World
Episode 95 - Lessons Learned from the Pandemic for the Next Disaster
Episode 94 - How Seismologists Can Tell if You Washed Your Hands
Episode 93 - How We Know What We Know... About Earthquakes
Episode 92 - Lucy’s Adventures in Scienceland
Episode 91 - Imagining the Impacts of Big Disasters
Episode 90 - Quake or Nuke? How Do We Know?
Episode 89 - Pandemic to Endemic and What It Means for You
Episode 88 - Why Fear Fails You
Episode 87 - Predicting the Next U.S. Volcanic Eruption
Episode 86 - Locked and Loaded Faults
Episode 85 - An Earthquake Felt 300 Years Later
Episode 84 - A Blast Heard around the World
Episode 83 - Will We Have a Big Earthquake in 2022?
Episode 82 - Don’t Look Down
Episode 81 - Surviving Omicron
Episode 80 - Our Dubious Distinction: U.S. is #1 in Tornadoes
Episode 79 - What is Risk?
Episode 78 - The Earthquake Weather Fallacy
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