Worried about nuclear war? Consider the micromorts

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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions  10.30.22 Worried About Nuclear War? Consider the Micromorts 7-MINUTE READ What is the chance that your hobby will kill you? This isn't something you need to think about if you're into, say, knitting, but most base jumpers will have felt the niggling fear that each jump could be their last. Intuitively, we know that some hobbies really are way riskier than others. In 1980, a Stanford engineering professor named Ronald Howard came up with a simple way to convey this difference in risk: He coined a unit of measurement called the micromort. Each micromort equals a one-in-a-million chance of death. Scuba diving, for example, is pretty risky at 5 micromorts per trip, but nowhere near as dangerous as base jumping, which will net you 430 micromorts per jump. Traveling 230 miles by car would add up to 1 micromort, but you'd only need to go 6 miles by motorcycle to expose yourself to the same risk of death. The reason we have micromort estimates for these activities is because we have pretty good data on how people die. Other risks are much harder to quantify. For instance, calculating the likelihood of dying in a nuclear conflict sounds like an impossible task, but it could give us a whole new way to think about the risk. READ THE FULL STORY You Might Also Like ... Is Listening to Audiobooks Really Reading? BY MEGHAN O'GIEBLYN | 4-MINUTE READ WIRED's spiritual advice columnist on bardic traditions for a modern age—and why book snobs worry about the wrong things. The Real Reason Elon Musk Wants You to Have More Babies BY VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN | 4-MINUTE READ People who complain about population aren't talking numbers—they're fantasizing about tightening the reins on workers. The Funny, Sad History of the Best Halloween Memes Ever BY AMELIA TAIT | 3-MINUTE READ From the "unemployed" costume to the 12-foot-tall Home Depot skeleton, the season's most viral moments reflect prevailing moods of the day. After the Flood, the Flesh-Eating Bacteria BY MEGHAN HERBST | 4-MINUTE READ Florida's storms unleashed deadly vibrio bacteria in their wake. They'll be a growing threat as the world gets warmer and wetter. How Google Alerted Californians to an Earthquake Before It Hit BY AMANDA HOOVER | 3-MINUTE READ People with Android phones got a notification that a trembler was about to rock Silicon Valley. WIRED looks at the tech behind that feat. The World Is Drowning in Plastic. Here's How It All Started BY MATT SIMON | 7-MINUTE READ It's the miracle material that makes cars, computers, and modern medicine possible. It has also corrupted every corner of the environment. GET WIRED Get WIRED for just $29.99 $5. Includes the print edition plus editor in chief Gideon Lichfield's column, System Update. Subscribe now. Have questions or comments? Reply to this email.   This email was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our email address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions

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