Explore "building codes" with insightful episodes like "28. Why Can’t We Predict Earthquakes?" and "27. Death by Fire? Probably Not" from podcasts like ""Freakonomics Radio" and "Freakonomics Radio"" and more!
We talk to a U.S. Geological Survey physicist about the science -- and folly -- of predicting earthquakes. There are lots of known knowns; and, fortunately, not too many unknown unknowns. But it's the known unknowns -- the timing of the next Big One -- that are the most dangerous.
Fire deaths in the U.S. have fallen 90 percent over the past 100 years, a great and greatly underappreciated gain. How did it happen -- and could we ever get to zero?
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