Normalcy Bias – Don’t Stick Your Head in the Sand

Complacency can get you killed. That’s sort of what normalcy bias boils down to, at least for the purposes of our discussion here. An article from Yale School of Medicine defines normalcy bias like this: “The normalcy bias describes our tendency to underestimate the possibility of disaster an...

By Jim Cobb •

Karl-Gerät Mortar: Germany’s Tracked Giant

In the mid-1930s, Adolph Hitler cast his eye towards France and dreamed of revenge for the outcome of World War One. Standing in his way was the French Maginot Line, a collection of massive concrete strongpoints, casemates, armored turrets, and observation posts. Among the barbed wire, mine field...

By Tom Laemlein •
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