News Roundup

• Masters of Disaster At Wharton's Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, researchers are investigating why humans do such a poor job planning for, and learning from, catastrophes.
• ECONOMIC & POLITICAL WISDOM - JERRY POURNELLE

• An energy strategy for grown-ups; Wind power is not a realistic substitute for oil
• Meet the Radical Homemakers
• Picture Show: The 37 or so Ingredients in a Twinkie