My goodness, Time prints an article worth reading! "Why we Worry About the Wrong Things."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1562978,00.html

Definitely an obvious article, yet at the same time it makes you think for a split second. I recommend it, if only to put things into perspective.

Pretty decent article, makes a lot of sense to me. Humans like to pretend that we are above the simple fact that we are just animals that are aware of mortality, and we end up ignoring, forgetting, or overthinking our basic animal responses to threat.

I read an interesting article about a risk analyst who was in London, fresh off the plane and jetlagged, and on the same street as one of the 7 July bombs. He commented that his major risk was not getting blown up; it was the combination of jetlag and cars driving on the "wrong" side of the road (i.e. not the side he's used to).