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What, me worry? Author:  Mike Pearl You may think you’ve got enough to worry about.  I know I do.  Unfortunately, there are plenty of things that you don’t know about that you probably should be fretting about.   Some are more worrisome than others, but nonetheless, they’re there, even if you’ve never considered them.   In The Day It Finally Happens award-winning journalist Mike Pearl explores nineteen scenarios – some more likely than others – that may well give you pause and send your worrying mind down entirely new paths.  I found his efforts both captivating and terrifying at the same time. [...]

Loved to death... Author:  Edward Posnett We destroy what we love most.  There may be no better way to sum up the last hundred years of human civilization.  Seemingly without exception, humanity finds a way to ruin the gifts that Mother Nature has bestowed on us.  From the foods we eat to the natural resources we rely on, we seem hell bent on destruction at every opportunity.  Sustainability has become an important concept that might help us try and contain this human tendency, but it couldn’t be clearer that it goes against every instinct that modern humans possess.  But maybe [...]

She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not Author: Sandie Jones Emily is your average girl with it all: a boyfriend she adores, two best friends who think the world of her, a successful (albeit normal) job, and the not-so-hard to hear peel of wedding bells in the future. That’s before she meets Pammie, her boyfriend’s mother. That’s long before what starts off as a little bitchy in-law action verges into the malevolent and then into the insane. That’s before Emily gets in on the game and it goes beyond winning (and keeping) a man’s heart. As a matter of fact, [...]