SIGNS OF THE TIMES: PROFESSORS OF CYBERPSYCHOLOGY AND EXTREME-WEATHER RISKS

My email today included notices of two new academic posts that I found eye-opening:

KIT, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, in Germany, has endowed a new professorship dedicated to the study of the risks from extreme weather events. I guess they haven't been convinced by the arguments of climate-change deniers.

Tornado, Andarko Oklahoma, May 1999/Credit Dizpics1/Wikipedia
Intense, large-scale tornado outbursts like this are happening more frequently

The University of Warwick, in the UK, has appointed its first cyberpsychologist, Monica Whitty. Professor Whitty joins other researchers at the university's Cyber Security Centre. Her focus is "on the human element . . . behaviour online to identify cyber criminals and in turn protect people from becoming victims."

Maybe if Hillary Clinton had known about Dr. Whitty a year or two ago, we'd have a different person taking the oath of office on January 20.