Wow!

There are some images that have such an effect on you that the only thing you can do is say wow! How did the photographer get such an amazing image? What's your reaction?

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Matt Ridley: Down with Doom

By then I had begun to notice that this terrible future was not all that bad. In fact every single one of the dooms I had been threatened with had proved either false or exaggerated. The population explosion was slowing down, famine had largely been conquered (except in war-torn tyrannies), India was exporting food, cancer rates were falling not rising (adjusted for age), the Sahel was greening, the climate was warming, oil was abundant, air pollution was falling fast, nuclear disarmament was proceeding apace, forests were thriving, sperm counts had not fallen. And above all, prosperity and freedom were advancing at the expense of poverty and tyranny. 

[From Matt Ridley: Down with Doom: How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists]

There is a reason to avoid hospital visits!

Quote from SuperFreakonomics:

So it may be that going to the hospital slightly increases your odds of surviving if you’ve got a serious problem but increases your odds of dying if you don’t. Such are the vagaries of life.

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