Lately, in the ongoing conversation about how to defeat the coronavirus, experts have made reference to the “Swiss cheese model” of pandemic defense. The metaphor is easy enough to grasp: Multiple ...

An aviation safety theory may explain a plane crash in Japan this week. The "Swiss cheese" theory argues that crashes are often caused by a series of small errors. A Japan Airlines plane crashed into ...

After the Brexit referendum, it became clear that the people had spoken. But in the days that followed, it also became clear that no one knew what had been said. And nowhere is this more apparent than ...