Page 6 - Risk Lab News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Professor Helweg-Larsen Prof. Helweg-Larsen is the Director of the Social Identity and Risk Lab and the Glenn E. & Mary Line Todd Chair in the Social Sciences at Dickinson College. She uses social psychological methods to examine why smart people do dumb things. She has examined the causes, consequences, and correlates of optimistic bias (thinking you are less at risk than others) as well as other health-related behaviors and cognitions. In two NIH-funded grants she has examined cross-culturally how moralized beliefs about smoking affect risk perceptions and quitting intentions as well as the...

What Is Universal Market Access (UMA)? Mar 13 2021 · 18:05 UTC by José Oramas · 6 min read Photo: Shutterstock You have successfully joined our subscriber list. The guide deals with Universal Market Access (UMA) protocol – an open-source infrastructure that allows DeFi developers to create their synthetic tokens and derivatives in the Ethereum network that can keep track of any asset’s prices. The decentralized finance (DeFi) boom has resulted in the value of the frozen assets frozen surpassing $9 billion. Many of these projects break the rules of traditional finance and implement t...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Sustainability DataPool, powered by the Office of Sustainability (MITOS), gives the MIT community the opportunity to understand data on important sustainability metrics like energy, water use, emissions, and recycling rates. While most visualizations share data from past events, the newest dashboard – the MIT Climate Resiliency Dashboard (MIT certificate required to view) – looks to potential future events in the form of flooding on campus. The dashboard is an essential planning tool for ongoing work to build a climate-resilient MIT, one that fulf...

Ten years after 3.11, Richard Samuels answers three questions about the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011.