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risk = outrage + hazard

I really liked Peter Sandman's articles about risk communication. I have never thought about the correlation between outrage and hazard, that there can be so many people that are frightend but there even is no real danger and that there could also be the situation where there is real danger but no one really cares about.



The most fascinating thing for me is Sandman's suggestion how to deal with this knowledge and the different situations.

That you have to differ between the… Continue

Added by Martina on May 31, 2011 at 11:03pm — No Comments

Saving the knowledge about traditional healing

On kivu.com I found an article about women in Oaxaca, Mexico that got the possibility to share their knowledge about plants, herbs and especially their healing practices with the world. With help from organizations like UNICEF they were able to collaborate and start a health program. They also were accepted by the community and able to train other people through courses and workshops that were offered, so their knowledge will be shared with others and not get lost.



I think this is a… Continue

Added by Martina on May 25, 2011 at 9:45am — No Comments

Energy from a health club

I think this is an idea a lot of people have had before, but I don't know why no one has realized it yet.

Every time I am to a health club and see the many people that are "wasting" their energy to get a better shape, I wonder why no one would take this energy and uses it to gain electricity for example.

When I think about the method how to do so I think about a little dynamo a lot of people have at their bikes. Maybe one could connect the bikes in the studio and treadmills to the… Continue

Added by Martina on May 16, 2011 at 2:14pm — No Comments

Ushahidi while an epidemic plague

Wondering what crisis my home town could affect in future, I will imagine the situation that an epidemic plague will break out.

I remember the time the bird flu broke out and even if it wasn't dangerous for human, everyone I knew was in panic. The really collected every dead bird they found, the emergency hot-line was overstrained and in radio and TV they had no other issue to discuss, but no one really knew something for sure. I think in case of a contagion it really can be useful to have… Continue

Added by Martina on May 16, 2011 at 2:03pm — No Comments

Rape in Congo

Actually I find it very hard to write a blog post about it.

I found the article: "Study on rape in DR Congo confirms 'gross' under-reporting " from the 12/5/2011 on the womenwatch site. It says that in Congo more than 1150 women are raped every day, which means 48 women every hour! :(

Please just read further if you have a strong stomach.

It reminds me to a doc**entation I have watched not long ago from Ross Kemp. He is a person that travels all around the world in to dangerous… Continue

Added by Martina on May 13, 2011 at 2:08pm — No Comments

No money for the taxi driver ;) and other examples

At first I have to admit, that it wasn't just me who tried to use a new currency, but also my best friend.

We often go to partys, drink a lot and normally when we are trying to get home it is so late, that there is no bus or metro driving anymore so we have to get home by taxi. But the last time my friend wanted to get home, he hadn't had any money anymore. The problem was that when he realized that fact, the taxidriver had already driven him home and to be honest he was reeeeally angry… Continue

Added by Martina on May 2, 2011 at 11:37pm — No Comments

Alternative currency

When I think about the future of money I am rather sure that we won't have any coined money in the future. I think that sometimes we will have just one currency all over the world and that worth of goods will be messured by some kind of numbers in the internet.

There are a lot of examples about online currencys. The ones I know best are the fictional currencys in games, where you can buy points with real money and then buy yourself skins or weapons for your character with these game points… Continue

Added by Martina on May 2, 2011 at 10:42pm — No Comments

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