Whether talking about disasters, college acceptance, or election results, humans aren’t wired to manage the stress of not knowing what’s happening next. In this episode, we look at uncertainty and why seeking answers -- even if they’re bad -- is more comforting than not knowing. Dr. Jones offers her approach to dealing with uncertainty, and shares one of the letters she’s received over the last 30 years that demonstrates the way humans seek some sort of explanation in the face of no certain answer.
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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