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I wrote this 20 years ago, about large oil spills. Déjà vu all over again.
Farmpress.com, Gulf oil spill disaster latest example in list of technological blunders. Aug 2, 2010
Newjerseynewsroom.com, on BP overpromising safety in the Gulf of Mexico, May 3, 2010.
New Jersey Herald, Pair paying for Prank at Lincoln Tunnel, Feb 8, 2010
Leonard Lopate, WNYC interview on Haiti and other calamities, January 2010
The Globe and Mail, Does Watching Haiti's Pain Change Us?, January 22, 2010
Leonard Lopate, WNYC interview on the end-times, December 2009
ABC News.com, The 2000s: A Decade of Doom or Diversions, Decemberr 4, 2009.
Smart article on swine flu panic, Reason.com May 2009
New York Times, The Afterlife of Near-Death, January 18, 2009
Asbury
Park Press, Hospitals Preparing for Bird Flu, January 8, 2006.
Daily
Record panel, on Iraq war, January 1, 2006.
Problems
may lie within, some say, New Orleans Times Picayune, December 8,
2005.
National
Review, Underwater Police Work, September 16, 2005.
Congressional Quarterly,
Experts Skeptical of Brown's Story on Katrina, September 27, 2005.
Christian
Science Monitor, September 22, 2005, Would you be prepared for natural
disaster?
New
York Times, September 11, 2005, Storm Warnings: Worrying about what
might happen here, because it wouldn't be the first time.
New
York Times, September 4, 2005, about the emotional impacts of hurricane
Katrina.
Chicago
Tribune, September 8, 2005, about the government response to Katrina.
Some of what I've written
on organizational failures was featured in a New York Times article,
on December 11, 1999, entitlted "Is Complexity Interlinked
With Disaster?" Unfortunately, the NYT wants to charge me $200
to reprint it.
In October 1999 The Chronicle
of Higher Education did a piece on "Normal Accident Theory,"
in which some of my
work on planning and crises is featured.
In June 1999 I wrote
an op-ed for the Providence
Journal, on Y2K planning
In March 1999, the 20th
anniversary of Three Mile Island, I wrote an op-ed for the NJ
Star Ledger, on public response to the disaster.
Campus Security Report,
November 2004, How prepared is your campus for a terrorist attack?
Press
Enterprise, January 2005, on the tsunami and mudslide in CA
Hysteria
Builds, accusations fly over vaccine, Start Ledger, October
2004.
USA
Today, on the flu shot shortage
Gloucester
Times, on the 9.11 report
Washington
Jewish Week, covering appearance at the National Press Club.
WNYC
on the federal 9.11 task force (2.5 megs, mp3 format)
American
Sociological Association coverage of my and Kathleen Tierney's work
advising the Department of Homeland Security
Dean
and Provost - a newsletter for educational administrators
Rutgers
Focus - Being prepared for terrorism at home
On
Wednesday, March 19, I was on News 12 New Jersey, talking about
problems of panic and disaster response. (6 megabytes)
Star
Ledger - State spreads out terrorism response duties
Chronicle
of Higher Education - on panic and bioterrorism
American
Association for the Advancement of Science Press Release - Fact
or Fiction: What Happens After an Asteroid Collides with Earth?
ABCNEWS.com
- The Time is Now
Rutgers
Focus newspaper
Los
Angeles Times - When Situations Heat Up, Most of Us Keep Our Cool
Reuters
- Asteroid Tracking Making Progress
Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette - Mass Hysteria Mainly the Stuff of Hollywood
Newhouse
News Service - Cities Rethink Evacuation with Terrorism in Mind
United
Press International - Scientsts See no Asteroid Threat - Yet
Reprinted in the Washington
Times
Bergen
Record - Orange Terror Alert Brings Extra Police Presence
San
Fransisco Chronicle - Sirens Key to East Bay Alert System After
9/11, Oakland Expanded Capability
Timesonline
- 'Don't Tell Public of Doomsday Asteroid'
Denver
Post - Asteroid Warnings Debated
MSNBC
- When Bad Things Might Happen
Eurekalert!
- Asteroids, panic, and planning
The
Globe and Mail - Watching For the Big One
The
Daily Telegraph - Asteroid Heading for Earth? Please, Just Don't
Ask...
BBC
- Preparing for the Big One
Space
Daily - The Human Dimensions of a Near Earth Object Impact
Daily News, Systems Fail, Not People, 2002.
ABCNEWS.com
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