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Ralph Roscoe Proctor was an army engineer in the US during the 1st world war. Proctor’s interest in geotechnical engineering began during his undergraduate studies at the[…]

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RISKY BUSINESS My last blog was about the game of Risk.  This one is about risk assessments.  In the past year or so I’ve been involved in[…]

When I was in high school my friends and I often played the board game Risk.  We were such hooligans.  Risk is a board game where you[…]