The Nature of Journalism and the Nature of Cognition

A lot of the a very beneficial developments consist of things that don't happen. You never see a journal reporting life from a country that's been at peace for forty years, but if a war breaks out you can be sure we'll hear about it. The easier it is to dredge up an example from memory, the more likely we think something is. People think that tornadoes kill a lot of people, but they don't realize that falling off ladders kills far more. When someone falls off a ladder, it doesn't make the news, but when there is a tornado, it does. Good things aren't built in a day, and they often consist of incremental improvements of a