Have you ever heard of Miss Universe, and Mr. World? Who hasn’t?



But hear me out this going to be very interesting. We are looking for Mr. Statistician and Ms. Statistician.



The eligibility criteria are that you must be a statistician irrespective of age or nationality. That means Good looks don’t matter in this competition.



If you think you are a Statistician with a unique style and grace then register yourself for the competition. It’s very easy; you just need… Continue

Bolivia's Lithium Deposits - 50% of all known deposits are in the Nation's Salt Flats, salt that is also collected and sold. What about contamination?







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Currently, there is a bit of a shortage on lithium these days and most all the Lithium Mines in the world are running at full capacity, as there is a challenge to make all the ion-lithium batteries for personal tech devices, military… Continue

By Lance Winslow

Federal Government Agencies are finally living up to the fact that they have been the biggest culprits in giving away US citizen's personal identity information. Some CPOs Chief Privacy Officers are still in denial claiming that government interns do not have security background checks and they need to be educated as to the "consequences of misconduct" or that regulating morality within government will stop the… Continue

Introduction to Environmental and Health Aspects of Nanotechnology







A half day educational workshop presented by the Society for Risk Analysis.







Instructors: Jo Anne Shatkin, CLF Ventures and Bernadene Magnuson, Cantox Health Sciences International







December 7, 2008 Boston, MA, 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm.







This half day course is intended for individuals interested in an introduction to potential environmental risk… Continue

It's nice to see your faces. That's pretty cool: I have "met" many people on RiskAnal over the years, and even published several papers with them, but still don't know what they look like!

By the way, the photo I posted is about ten years old ;-). More recent ones look like they were taken with a B&W camera :-(.

October 16: OK, in the interests of photographic honesty, I replaced that old photo with a more recent one from spring '07.