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 ...

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 ...

We learned to ski when we were around 5 years old. The routine went something like this: Friday night, we gathered up our ski clothes and hunted down our gear so we were ready to go early Saturday ...