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...This is not a mere logic game. If there is a single "big idea" to have emerged in the first decade of the new millennium - from the September 11 attacks to the financial crash - it is the notion of the "black swan," the danger posed by difficult to predict, high-impact events. The short history of nuclear weapons is already scattered with unplanned and seemingly improbable incidents that suggest we feel more secure than we should. In 1995, a communication failure with the Russian Embassy led the Russian military to believe that a weather rocket launched off the coast...
...well as your regular down-home royals news, the site contains of lots of handy advice, such as what you might say to a member of the Worshipful Company of Vintners if you're invited to watch the annual Swan Upping. (A safe line of discourse at such swan-counting events would be to inquire how they are getting on with fellow swan enthusiasts, the Worshipful Company of Dyers.) And if you're looking for decorating tips for a larger than average residence, you can take an interactive tour of several ceremonial rooms to see what might be whipped...
...Watch a TIME video on the annual Swan Upping...
...people become aware that a sick child is not getting care," says Dr. Sara Sinal who co-authored a July 2008 article on religion-based medical neglect in Southern Medical Journal. "It is suspected that many deaths go unreported and unrecognized, particularly in closed communities." Former Christian Scientist Rita Swan, executive director of the nonprofit Children's Health Care Is A Legal Duty, estimates that since the 1980s 300 children have died of "religion-based medical neglect" in the United States. Shawn F. Peters, author of the 2007 book When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law calls...
...housekeepers being approved for million-dollar mortgages - have only hastened their demise. "This crisis needs to be understood as something that has developed over the past decade," says Joseph Mason, a finance professor at Louisiana State University's E.J. Ourso College of Business. "This isn't just one black swan. It's a bunch of black swans that have hung out for a while and created a giant problem." (Read George W. Bush's top 10 economic mistakes...