A California judge is requiring cancer warning labels on coffee. So we thought we’d take look at some of the other highly improbable risks associated with your cup of joe. We love a good cup of coffee at Risk Bites. So we were rather dismayed to discover that California judge William le Jeunesse ha
When something like the herbicide Glyphosate (Roundup) is labeled "probably causes cancer", what does this mean? This question was prompted by Grist, who asked us: "Hey Risk Bites guy, the WHO just said that the herbicide in Roundup probably causes cancer -- what's the deal with that? It seems lik
When people talk about "health risk", what do they mean? Here's one perspective on risk and risk assessment that's helpful for thinking about risk in ways that help understand and reduce it. Transcript: alugha Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/RiskBites
What is risk? And what is risk assessment? [Note from AM - I've been surprised at how tough it is to talk about risk in an accessible yet accurate way in just a couple of minutes. Looking back over this video and next week's, I can feel the paranoia creeping in that some of the basic concepts are
Risk is not just a number -- it also involves how we feel about things. This week Risk Bites introduces Dr. Brian Zikmund-Fisher, who will be talking more in future videos about how we perceive and feel about risk, and what this means about the risk decisions we make. This week's Risk Bites team:
Have you ever experienced that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach? It probably meant you were dreading something. But, why is it that we dread some things and not others? And how does this affect how we feel about risk? Brian Zikmund Fisher is back with Risk Bites to talk about how we tend
Brian Zikmund-Fisher is back to talk about how familiarity affects how we feel about risk, and how this can affect the decisions we make. This week's Risk Bites team: David Faulkner (post-production) Brian Zikmund-Fisher (narrative and animation) Andrew Maynard (all the other stuff) Risk Bites is
Pluto may be a former planet, but it's also a novel way to think about risk! On July 14th 2015, a small spacecraft will buzz a former planet in the less fashionable outskirts of our solar system. A lot of people will get excited by this, apparently thinking that the first close-up view of a lump o
Gastroclinix is an online resource of information for patients. We provide detailed description of all the problems related to gastrointestinal tract & its basic solutions in an easily understandable language. ----------------------- In This Video ----------------------- What are the symptoms of Sto
How do you work out how safe or dangerous a chemical or some other substance is? This week's Risk Bites takes a look at chemical safety, and estimating health risk from chemical exposure. This week's Risk Bites team: David Faulkner (post-production) Andrew Maynard (all the other stuff) Risk Bite
What is solution-focused risk assessment, and how can it help in the governance of emerging technologies? Solution-focused risk assessment, or SFRA, is a novel way of thinking about and managing risks developed by Adam Finkel. It involves analyzing the good and bad consequences of what we can do to
Smart risk-decisions require good science. But not every risk conversation is about the evidence. Responsible innovation around emerging technologies -- and a whole host of other areas -- rely on conversations about risk that are inclusive of different perspectives, concerns and aspirations. The
