Dylan Evans' animated introduction to risk intelligence

Also, Dylan Evans on "Gamblers as role models"

BBC: The MIT Card Counters

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

The Gambler: 60 Minutes on Billy Walters

Novelist and social commentator Max Barry on risk

Max Barry on Risk from Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Australian Broadcasting Corporation on FORA.tv

Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon

How might the world end? Stephen Petranek lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle collider gone wild?

When he was editor-in-chief of Discover magazine, Stephen Petranek tangled with questions as big as the universe. Here he confronts the biggest question on the planet: What are the 10 most likely ways that life on the Earth could end?

Star Trek TOS sickbay medical scanner (1966-69)

Design by Gil Keppler

Aliens motion tracker (1986)