The causes of disasters fall into a small number of repeating patterns. These lessons apply not only to the operation of complex, high-energ...

Well, maybe not a lot on the "why" (writers are supposed to get out there and promote for the publishers) but here's some on t...

Those curious about the history of mine and other collapse rescues might check out my article for Invention&Technology on heavy rescue. ...

A post of political history, in honor of the primaries yesterday. Before Karl Rove, before Lee Atwater, before Dick Morris, there was Quig...

I've been interested about why decision-makers at BP, Transocean, and the ol' MMS felt that deepwater blowouts were so unlikely, or ...

The factor called "time to first oil" is a key concept in drilling economics, in some way more important than how much cash is spe...

An idea I mentioned in my disaster book, and one that I usually include in lectures when talking about learning from close calls, is the ...