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This BBC podcast features the last wireless messages from the ship. At the 100th anniversary of its sinking, the Titanic has come to symbolize the perils of being overly confident in mankind's ability to prevent disasters.

What lessons does this hold for our initiatives with nuclear energy, fracking, and virtually anything else that retuires sophisticated technology to be "unsinkable?"

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Richmond Shreve is a retired business executive whose careers began in electronics (USN) and broadcasting in the 1960s. Over the years he has maintained a hobby interest in amateur radio, and the audio-visual arts while working in sales and (more...)

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