Amanda Ripley Author of The Unthinkable

Teach for America (whose research I wrote about here last year) is having a big geek-out festival in DC from Feb. 11-13. Along with James Carville, Whitney Tilson and Kira Orange Jones, I’ll be doing a panel on the media’s role in the country’s noisy education debate.

I remember when Wendy Kopp came to my high school to recruit for a wacky start-up called Teach for America. Hard to believe that was 20 years ago…

Teach for America is now bigger than the Peace Corps, which is nice. But more…

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I’ll be speaking at the House of Representatives tomorrow about how the brain responds to fear and uncertainty. I suppose it’s good timing...

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I’ll be moderating an event at THEARC in S.E. DC on Monday night, Feb. 28th. School leaders, parents and students will be talking about how to enroll parents in the quest to find, choose and help build outstanding schools. We’ll break it up with a few video clips, just to make things interesting. *And there will be refreshments & gift bags.* What’s not to love? See you there, I hope…

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On Aug. 4, I’ll be in New Orleans at the NCS4 conference—talking to about 400 men and women whose job it is to make sure tens of thousands of people can come to a game or a concert and leave in peace a few hours later. That is a complicated job. I look forward to hearing their stories.

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I’ll be in Vegas this week giving a talk to the International Association of Emergency Managers. Incredibly, I’ve never been to Vegas before. I know, I know. I’m an embarrassment to my country. So it’s time, and I’m looking forward to catching up with old friends and sources. Plus, what better place to talk about risk, denial and panic?

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