Tim Maher’s online lecture has been rescheduled. The new time is Thursday 1 August 2013, at 17:00 GMT (13:00 New York, 18:00 London, 19:00 Amsterdam). The original lecture was cancelled due to a scheduling problem. Please RSVP to me if you would like to attend...
Grant Wilson and I have gone through and updated the GCR organization directory. The directory now contains 130 organizations. The new entries are below. Please let us know if we may be missing any organizations. Reflecting back on the seven months since the directory...
The Society of Risk Analysis has just confirmed that our two global catastrophic risk sessions have been accepted for the 2013 SRA Annual Meeting. For full speaker & abstract info, please click here. For info on past SRA GCR sessions, please click here.
On Tuesday-Wednesday 25-26 June, GCRI hosted an online lecture by Itsuki Handoh titled ‘Phosphorus and Chemical Pollution as Global Catastrophic Risks’. (See the pre-lecture announcement.) Handoh is an Associate Professor at the Research Institute for...
Download Preprint PDF Dual-use technologies are technologies that can be used in both beneficial and harmful ways. Some technologies produced through biological engineering (bioengineering) are dual-use. Of all the possible harms from dual-use technologies, global...
