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Risk and Perception - June 15, 2007

Bruce Schneier has written another excellent article on the perception of risk: ...when faced with a very available and highly vivid event like 911 or the Virginia Tech shootings, we overreact. And when faced with all the salient related events, we assume causality. We pass the Patriot Act. We think if we give guns out to students, or maybe make it harder for students to get guns, we'll have solved the problem. We don't let our children go to playgrounds unsupervised. We stay out of the ocean..
http://jalcorn.net/weblog/archives/1067-Risk-and-Perception.html

Antioch College Closing - June 14, 2007

(Yes, I know, I've been quiet. Maybe I'll get started again) I attended Antioch College my freshman year. Why only one year is a long and not pretty story, but my year at Antioch was a good year. This is the 4th time - it closed during the Civil War, in the 1880's for financial reasons, 1917-1918 and now. Antioch is a unique place. In the 50s it was a place where professors blackballed for "anti-american" activities could find work. There are no letter grades, unless you request them. .
http://jalcorn.net/weblog/archives/1066-Antioch-College-Closing.html