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Tag: science

Invest in Disaster Management

By Michael Coyle Posted on 23/07/2012 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with emergency, management, rant, risk, science

Climate change means less stable weather, and more disasters. We have to be more efficient at managing emergencies.

On the Language of Science

By Michael Coyle Posted on 02/11/2011 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with numbers, science, technology
On the Language of Science
Words Matter

In some posts on this blog I make a big deal about things like “error” and “uncertainty”; I’ve used these terms when describing points on a map that are generated from a GPS, and in describing statistics pertaining to accidents …

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