Illustration by Lou Brooks.

What We Should Fear

Gary Marcus looks at "What Should We Be Worried About?", a collection of essays by one hundred and fifty top scientists and writers:

it may sound comforting to say that 'the only thing we need to worry about is worry itself' (as several contributors suggested), but anybody who has lived through Chernobyl or Fukushima knows otherwise... many of the essays are insightful, and bring attention to a wide range of challenges for which society is not yet adequately prepared...

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