Risk Taking

A We run risks. Most of the time we ignore them; sometimes we stop and decide how to deal with them. That's life. Risk arise in sports, in personal relationships; they are present in the laboratory, in political calculations, everywhere. Acting individually, we often prefer to gain some benefit by accepting some danger. Acting collectively, we make similar trade-offs. B When society must assess risks, and those risks can be clarified, at least in part, by science, technology or ma...