PANIC TRICKS YOU Panic is an insidious trick that makes you fear simple, everyday things: driving, shopping, socializing, traveling and more. The first attack comes out of nowhere, and then panic tricks you into responding in precisely the ways that invite the panic back, again and again. BUT IT'S JUST A TRICK The panic trick is highly effective and has drawn mi...(展开全部)

For most Americans, candy is an uneasy pleasure, eaten with side helpings of guilt and worry. Yet candy accounts for only 6 percent of the added sugar in the American diet. And at least it’s honest about what it is—a processed food, eaten for pleasure, with no particular nutritional benefit. So why is candy considered especially harmful, when it’s not so different from the othe...(展开全部)

Originally written for a conference of the Federal Reserve, Gary Gorton's "The Panic of 2007" garnered enormous attention and is considered by many to be the most convincing take on the recent economic meltdown. Now, in Slapped by the Invisible Hand, Gorton builds upon this seminal work, explaining how the securitized banking system, the nexus of financial markets and instrumen...(展开全部)

Originally written for a conference of the Federal Reserve, Gary Gorton's "The Panic of 2007" garnered enormous attention and is considered by many to be the most convincing take on the recent economic meltdown. Now, in Slapped by the Invisible Hand, Gorton builds upon this seminal work, explaining how the securitized banking system, the nexus of financial markets and instrumen...(展开全部)

Fear of cancel culture has gripped the world, and it turns out to be an old fear in a new get-up. In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a moral panic, showing that, though its object is fuzzy, talk of cancel culture in global media has become a preoccupation of an embattled liberalism. There are plenty of conservative v...(展开全部)

Influenza was the great killer of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the so-called 'Russian flu' killed around 1 million people across Europe in 1889-93 - including the second-in-line to the British throne, the Duke of Clarence. The Spanish flu of 1918, meanwhile, would kill 50 million people - nearly 3% of the world's population. Here, Mark Honigsbaum outlines the his...(展开全部)

In the 1980s, it seemed impossible to escape Satan’s supposed influence. Everywhere you turned, there were warnings about a widespread evil conspiracy to indoctrinate the vulnerable through the media they consumed. This percolating cultural hysteria, now known as the “Satanic Panic,” not only sought to convince us of devils lurking behind the dials of our TVs and radios and the...(展开全部)

Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From pneumonic plague in LA and ‘parrot fever’ in Argentina to the more recent AIDS, SARS and Ebol...(展开全部)

马克·霍尼斯鲍姆（Mark Honigsbaum），英国伦敦大学城市学院高级讲师，研究方向为医学史。曾任《观察家报》首席记者，在《柳叶刀》、Medical History等专业刊物上发表了数十篇学术书评和论文。 著有多部医学史作品，包括《与恩扎一起生活:被遗忘的英国故事和1918年的流感大流行》(被英国皇家学会提名为年度科学书籍）、《人类大瘟疫——一个世纪以来的全球性流行病》（《金融时报》2019年年度图书）等。

比约恩·隆伯格（Bjorn Lomborg） 哥本哈根大学政治学博士，斯坦福大学胡佛研究所访问学者，国际著名环保活动家、评论家、专栏作家，哥本哈根共识中心主席。2004年被《时代》（Time）杂志评为“全球100位最具影响力人物”；2008年被英国《卫报》（Guardian）列入“可以拯救地球的50人”；2012年获选《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）“全球100位思想家”。 著有多部畅销书，包括：《要事第一》（Best Things First: The 12 most efficient solutions for the world’s poorest and our global SDG promises）、《错误警报：气候变化只是虚惊一场》（False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs U...(展开全部)