When I was in 5th grade, the kids in my neighbordhood and I invented a great game. The game mechanics are a bit lengthy to describe here, but they involved two teams, each taking turns to question the other team on an imaginary object. The team with the most consistent answers won. We played this game for months, and enjoyed it a great deal. As time went on, we got better and better at it, making it very challenging to trip the other team up with difficult questions, and thus making the game very exciting and intellectually stimulating.

The terrorist threat continues to be exaggerated to spawn a massive and costly Security State.

“Number of American civilians who died worldwide in terrorist attacks last year: 8 — Minimum number who died after being struck by lightning: 29.”

An anonymous worker at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has written dozens of blog posts describing his experience as a lead robot operator at the crippled facility

Because of noise pollution, some birds are forced to sing at higher frequencies making them less attractive.