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2013/2014 Winter Storm Season in Europe
This winter storm season has seen the most severe sequence of storms since 1990. Another windstorm to affect the U.K., Windstorm Christina,…
A Tale of Two Storms
“Horror and confusion seized upon all, whether on shore or at sea: no pen can describe it; no tongue can express it; no thought conceive it…
A Debate About The Numbers
It depends on who you ask. The insurance, real estate, and banking industries are lobbying forcefully for a renewal, citing the difficulty of…
Rumbling Below the Waves
Which of the following would you say has the shortest odds? a) Someone getting injured by a firework b) A meteor landing on a house c)…
Social Change is Outperforming Medical Science
We are in the middle of a health awareness revolution. Attitudes to fitness, health, diet, and social risk factors are changing more rapidly…
The Dangerous City of Tacloban
The city of Tacloban, on the island of Leyte, is the largest city in the eastern Visayas region of the central Philippines. In a 2010 survey…