Marisa’s Reviews > The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why > Status Update

~ One high-ranking official actually said he was worried that people would bite their tongues off. And how would that look? Dozens of tongue-less innocents fleeing from a library—all for the sake of research!

~ The people in the back have no way of knowing that someone in the front has fallen; all they see is a small space open up where the person used to be, and so they push forward, putting more pressure on the fallen.

Me: this makes so much sense

The word "panic" was influenced by the Greeks' belief in the god Pan

COVID chapter = not my favorite

~ In general, TV makes us worry about the wrong things. Your brain is better at filtering out media hype when it is reading. Words have less emotional salience than images. So it's much healthier to read the news than watch it.

Me: I bet that applies to social media too (being worse than reading)

~ Anecdotes, for example, as any journalist or advertiser knows, always matter more to the brain than statistics.

~ Emotions and feelings were not impediments to reason: they were integral.

~ By 2020, more than four of every ten Americans lived near a coast—where hurricanes, floods, and tropical storms are annual rites.

Me: exactly why I live in the Midwest 😎

😮‍💨 proud to say that I got the coffee and donut equation correct

People really need to leave those wetlands alone