This is one I have to share
Found on an excellent website – http://www.copenhagenize.com/

18 September 2009

“Here’s an appropriate little ‘wedgie’ in the Fear of Cycling series. The Isle of Wight County Press Online [big name for a little paper ] reports that the Hampshire Constabulary has cut off supplying unclaimed stolen bikes to a charity [...]

Letter NOT published in the Guardian. Submitted 30 April.
My two favorite commentators on the subject of risk have fallen out. Simon Jenkins (29 April) predicts that swine flu will end up with bird flu and Sars in the category of over-hyped scare that never happened. Ben Goldacre (30 April) says that if Simon turns out [...]

Risk Now available as Risco in Portuguese. See Deus é Brasileiro? for new preface – in English.

I began my inaugural blog on this website – On becoming Vashti – as follows: “My nomination for the most prescient work of science fiction is The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster.”
A recent comment on this posting by a former student, June Gibbons, has prompted a further re-reading of The Machine Stops. With each [...]

John Adams and (even older – positively venerable) Mayer Hillman are looking for a younger enthusiast to carry on a research project that Mayer and Anne Whalley began at the Policy Studies Institute. In 1971, they conducted a survey of English children’s independent mobility – how they got to school, visited friends and so on, [...]

God, I suspect, finds Photoshoppers especially amusing. Grudging thanks to Peter Holtham for spoiling my tutorial. See http://www.cargolaw.com/2005nightmare_catch-day.html for the answers to the questions posed at the end of my last post.

Most risk assessments, warning notices and disclaimers are the legal equivalent of juju charms to ward off lawyers – and probably as effective as the kind that believers wear around their necks. This disclaimer for Nelson Rocks Preserve in West Virginia was sent to me by Paul Winston, editorial director of Business Insurance [...]

Arboricultural Journal 2007, Vol. 30, pp. 95–103
 This is the published version of a paper prepared for a conference on The Future of Tree Risk Management, held in London on 15 September 2006.
 Abstract
Britain, in the view of former Prime Minister Blair, is “in danger of having a wholly disproportionate attitude to the risks [...]

Draft for WHO Workshop, Rome, 13-14 December 2007. The cost of inaction: economic valuation in environment and health.
Contemplation of the costs of inaction usually provokes questions about the benefits of inaction, which leads to cost-benefit analysis. Cost-benefit analysis, as a method for settling arguments about action or inaction is enormously seductive. You simply [...]

In 1971 Mayer Hillman conducted a survey of how English children got about: at what age were they allowed to play in the street, ride a bike, get to school on their own, visit friends and get about the neighbourhood? In 1990 Mayer persuaded me to join him in re-surveying the same schools he had [...]