Should We Be Worried? Risk in Modern America: Part 1

Participants run next to Cebada Gago fighting bull on the third day of the San Fermin bull run festival in Pamplona, northern Spain on July 9, 2018. Each day at 8am hundreds of people race with six bulls, charging along a winding, 848.6-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city's bull ring, where the animals are killed in a bullfight. Jose Jordan/AFP/Getty Images

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We do many things astonishingly well as a modern society. Our communications technology rivals anything Gene Roddenberry contemplated when he dreamed up the “Star Trek” universe.