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Book Review “The Undoing Project”

…casinos wouldn’t exist. And people bought insurance, paying premiums that exceeded their expected losses; if they didn’t, insurance companies would have no viable business. Any theory pretending to explain how…

Retail Theft

…and that they were now to blame for nearly half of all retail “shrink,” an industry-devised metric for merchandise loss that includes retail theft, theft by employees, and loss by administrative or operational errors….

Global Health and Climate Change

…Climate change continues to drive record-breaking health threats, including heat-related mortality, sleep loss due to rising nighttime temperatures and the expanding geographical range of infectious diseases such as dengue, malaria…