The government’s latest probability figures for a long-expected Nankai Trough megaquake show that even Japan’s best scientific minds still cannot accurately predict earthquakes. The Earthquake ...

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Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...