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In late 1993, a reinforced Swedish-Danish-Norwegian mechanized battalion (Nordbat 2) deployed to Bosnia as part of an ongoing UN peacekeeping mission ;The battalion was under Swedish command, and with the exception of a Danish tank company and a Norwegian helicopter detachment, was comprise
A rant on the significance and meaningfulness of metrics, or lack thereof
Progress came only after a fundamental and unremarked shift in the investigative approach, one focusing on the specific circumstances surrounding an accident—the “messy details” that the heavy siege guns of the epidemiological approach averaged out or bounded out. These “messy details,” rather than being treated as an irrelevant nuisance, became instead the focus of investigation for Cooper and colleagues and led to progress on safety.
Daniel Sarewitz on why scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world