one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
August 14 2006
There are now more fat people in world than there are starving ones.
Watch out for the tyre-slashing vigilante if you phone while you drive in the UK.
Colin Camerer on our fear of terrorism“Statistics show that you are far more likely to die in a car accident or by a heart-attack. But we have no idea what the probability of a terrorist attack is, and that frightens us”
That’s impressive: if half of British homes buy a plasma-screen TV, two nuclear power stations would have to be built to meet the extra energy demand.