Tag: disaster

Forecast liabilitiy

If you thought rationality is only under attack in the US, think again.

“The verdict is perverse and the sentence ludicrous”. It called for protests against the sentence’s severity and at scientists being criminalized “for the way their opinions were communicated”.

Leading political figures in Italy suggested that the case had blurred the lines between science and public life. “The risk is that doubt will no longer be allowed to form part of scientific judgement. The role of science is not the same as politics or administration.”

Against Yoga mat donations

With the near unanimous support of its Congress, Honduras recently defined a new legal entity: la Región Especial de Desarrollo. A RED is an independent reform zone intended to offer jobs and safety to families who lack a good alternative; officials in the RED will be able to partner with foreign governments in critical areas such as policing, jurisprudence and transparency. By participating, Canada can lead an innovative approach to development assistance, an approach that tackles the primary roadblock to prosperity in the developing world: weak governance.

this is great: exhorting canada to export governance, not yoga mats, to help honduras. this could actually work (see singapore). there is a TED talk on charter cities too.