Posts Tagged ‘MediaNews’
Negative Expectation Bias | When All News is Bad News | The Velocity of Information | SDP181
[Podcast] A popular Reddit thread is titled, “What’s a ‘Today is going to suck’ red flag. A top up-voted response was, “Waking up with a huge headache,” and another was “When you get all the red lights on your commute.” Each of us could add a comment to that thread, right? Per the National Institute…
Read MoreJuan Browne | Oroville Dam and Citizen-As-Journalist | The Velocity of Information | SDP179
[Podcast] In 2017, America’s tallest dam complex had partially, but catastrophically, failed. The Oroville Dam, located in northern California, left operators scrambling to figure out how to manage a main spillway failure, eroding secondary spillway, and a rising water level in the reservoir. Remember those tense days when America was riveted to the nightly news…
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