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The Risk Issue
Airlines, storms, nuclear ledgers, hospitals — institutional risk as narrative and number.
AIRLINES: How Incident Counts Hide Exposure Differences
336 airline records show capacity dominates safety rankings—United leads at 7.1B seat-km/week, but incident counts don't scale linearly with size. HURRICANES: Maria's 2017 Peak Hammered Puerto Rico in a Three-State Season
Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico absorbed 100% of measured 2017 hurricane impact in 153-record TidyTuesday extract; median reading 703, ceiling 5,072. NUCLEAR: Nuclear Test Magnitudes Peaked at 7.40 Across 2,051 Detonations
Public seismic catalogs reveal a median magnitude of 0.00—mostly missing data—while maximum recorded yields reached 7.40. PLASTIC: Plastic Mismanagement Stayed Uneven as GDP Doubled Since 1700
22,204 country-year records show high income funds collection but does not guarantee low leakage; coastal economies face mismanagement risk at any income level. WASTEWATER: Singapore's Wastewater Plants Discharge 200× the Global Norm
Facility-level data show median discharge at 1,079 m³/day; Singapore's plants average 223,683. READMITTED: The 3% Stick Medicare Keeps Swinging
In CMS's latest Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program extract, 48.15% of hospital–condition pairs still exceed the expected readmission ratio after a decade of penalties capped at 3% of Medicare payments. This R2 report maps HRRP history, who pays, safety-net effects, observation and mortality debates, international comparators, and eight charts for hospital executives. LONGEVITY: Global Life Expectancy Nearly Tripled in Five Centuries
Global median life expectancy rose from 33.9 to 73 years between 1543 and 2015, yet top countries still outlive the lowest by more than two-to-one. EXERCISE: Colorado Leads U.S. Exercise Participation at 32%
Colorado leads at 32.0; median across 52 U.S. jurisdictions is 23.0, with Western and New England states dominating the top tier.