It's the end of the world as we know it.....

Hey guys, to compliment the natural disaster reading for this week we thought you might spend a few minutes poking around the World Bank's Natural Disaster Hazard and Risk Management Site.

Also, for those of you wanting to know about the odds that we are going to get smacked by an asteroid in the near future, there is an article in Science that you might want to read. And, did you know that there is actually a chance that some of the particle physics experiments we do could cause the Earth to instantly vanish? Seriously. To learn more about that risk, check out this article in Nature on "strangelets."

(If you aren't at WFU you'll have to go through the library's web site to the Science and Nature issues that are linked.)