Another theme I want to address in the course is how we evaluate risk. This is a tricky but important task... On the one hand, there is an effective mathematical language, the language of probability theory, for quantifying risk and expectation. On the other hand, there is extensive behavioral literature which strongly suggests that when we actually make our decisions, we do not always do so in the ways in which probability calculus would suggest.
T Corona Borealis
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Sometime this year, the star T Corona Borealis will go nova and become
much brighter! At least that’s what a lot of astronomers think. So examine
the sky...
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