The Risk Paradox

Risk protection is normally done to minimize the harm a particular activity can do to us. There are various things we do to reduce our risk, to make ourselves safer.

Behaviour scientists point out that taking measures to reduce the harm we can do to ourselves, can actually make us take mo...

Boredom isn’t about not having something fun to do, but about not wanting to do the activities which are at one’s disposal.

Boredom by itself isn’t a desire, but a desire for a desire to arise. Man cannot sit quietly in a room and do nothing, and that inab...

 “Jill Fredston is a nationally recognized avalanche expert. . . She knows about a kind of moral hazard risk, where better safety gear can entice climbers to take more risk— making them in fact less safe.” Like opportunities to make money, the degree of risk present in a market derives from the b...