Worried about standing in front of a crowd to give an important presentation?How about the fact that you're a month late on your car payment?
Are you wondering what your friends will think when you don that 'I HEART MCCAIN' t-shirt?
In the big scheme of things, does it really even matter?
According to the following websites below, our human race is going to hell in a handbasket sooner than later.
So why not wait another month to pay that car payment. Who really gives a rat's ass anyway?
It really brings things into perspective when you're silently cursing at your freshly poured Starbucks Choco Choca Cafe Mocha Latte Frappuccino with Extra Skim Foam because you're struggling to get the plastic lid on straight.
THE END OF EVERYTHING
Our average lifespan is about 78 years or so. After you read this article, it'll make you feel even more insignificant.
LIFE AFTER PEOPLE
If you haven't seen the documentary or read a similar book, click around this website to see what would happen if humans were eliminated from the Earth via a natural disaster or uber black plague.
THE LAST QUESTION
In several interviews I've come across, Isaac Asimov mentioned this short story was one of his favorites of the hundreds (thousands?) that he had written. It really makes you think about humanity's future and our steady deterioration as a society.
TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY
Some people believe The Terminator, The Matrix and A.I. are much more than just simple sci-fi fantasy movies. Some people actually believe it will happen. Some people, like Vernon Vinge, think it's right around the corner.
METEORITE COLLISION
An uplifting simulation of what would happen if (when?) a big-ass meteor collides with the Earth.
THE WASTE LAND
Read T.S. Eliot's popular, yet obscure, poem of universal despair. 'April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, ...'
MORE HEAVY STUFF
And finally, will we ever receive an answer to one of the biggest philosophical questions of our time? I think not.
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