A new app lets folks walking home alert their friends and family until someone among them agrees to “virtually” walk…
Browsing: safety
. My friend, colleague and hero Peter Gray, a psychology professor and author of “Free to Learn” (one of my…
Safety hysteria is everywhere, but nowhere more obvious than in “must read” warnings to parents, like the ones discussed below.…
There are two ways to approach a risk: Try to spend your whole life avoiding it, or learn how to…
. This is the article everyone’s talking about: The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt,…
Here’s the latest “Parents, Please Commence Freaking Out” video. It reminds me of the Joey Salads video, obviously, but also…
This perspective brought to us by psychologist Sarah Heavin in Tacoma, WA. Better Safe Than Sorry? Not if you care…
This is a lovely piece about Free-Range Kids from the CBC (Canada’s public broadcasting station). Couldn’t have said it better…
Hey folks — Researchers at the University of California-Irvine are studying how people perceive risk. They need people to take…
This is how insurance companies think, blame and change our culture. The paragraph below appears at the top of the…