World-class athlete Steve Fisher has taken on some of the most ambitious projects imaginable, including an expedition through the Congo River’s Inga rapids, the world’s biggest rapids. He
January 28, 2016 was the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into take off killing all seven
World-renowned climber Jimmy Chin and filmmaker Elizabeth “Chai” Vasarhelyi talk about making Meru, a documentary about Chin, Conrad Anker, and Renan Ozturk’s attempt to make
Emergent findings in social psychology point to the limitations of cognition and rationality; decision-making, it turns out, is highly over-rated. What this means for us:
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The Federal Aviation Administration is one of the organizations in the US that researches safety, risk and decision-making to ensure that air travel is safe.
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The Human Factor, presented by Black Diamond, is a five-part multimedia story that investigates the decisions skiers make in avalanche terrain.
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Based on an ISSW 2009 paper by Bruce Jamieson, Juerg Schweizer and Cora Shea, the presentation uses an event tree, an expert survey of triggering
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