http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1562978-1,00.html
911 effect led to an additional 1000 deaths on the road, viz: ”
So white-knuckle flyers routinely choose the car, heedless of the fact that at most a few hundred people die in U.S. commercial airline crashes in a year, compared with 44,000 killed in motor-vehicle wrecks. The most white-knuckle time of all was post–Sept. 11, when even confident flyers took to the roads. Not surprisingly, from October through December 2001 there were 1,000 more highway fatalities than in the same period the year before, in part because there were simply more cars around. “It was called the ‘9/11 effect.’
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Archive for the 'PopSci' Category
How Americans Are Living Dangerously – TIME
July 9, 2012Global Warming Deniers Well Funded – Newsweek and The Daily Beast
July 9, 2012http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2007/08/13/the-truth-about-denial.html The truth about denial from Newsweek
Building an organ on a chip
July 5, 2012http://www.technologyreview.com/demo/427992/building-an-organ-on-a-chip/
Interesting video
Fetal tests spur legal battle : Nature News & Comment
June 30, 2012Data in High Energy Physics
June 26, 2012High-Energy Physicists Set Record for Network Data Transfer
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111213144715.htm
High-energy physics: Down the petabyte highway
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110119/full/469282a.html
Particle physics has been a trendsetter in developing the
infrastructure to push petabytes from central detectors (often at CERN) around the world.
Article: Why we owe it all to Alan Turing
June 23, 2012Data in High Energy Physics
June 22, 2012High-Energy Physicists Set Record for Network Data Transfer
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111213144715.htm
High-energy physics: Down the petabyte highway
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110119/full/469282a.html
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