QotD: Godlike Humans?

Posts from This Journal “risk” Tag

• Whitewater Readiness Quiz

  This quiz is designed to help whitewater paddlers assess what class of whitewater you have the skills to run with success. For each question,…

• Scoring for Whitewater Readiness Quiz

  SCORING FOR THE WHITEWATER READINESS QUIZ Take the grand total of all the numbers you wrote down while taking the quiz and subtract 11. Done.…

• QotD: The Edge

  The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. - Hunter S.…

• QotD: Adventure

  Adventure is worthwhile. ~~Aristotle

• QotD: the Merits of the Knife

  I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him.…

• Rumi of the day: Be Notorious

  Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. — Rumi, “Bewilderment”

• QotD: Risk Taking

  I do not risk my life. I take risks in order to live. I take risks because I love life, not because I don’t. --Stephen Koch, climber and…

• QotD: Unafraid of the Sea

  A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the…

• Middle Aged White Dudes Die of Preventable Disease (Interesting Times Indeed)

  This epidemiologic analysis revealed that mortality rates are increasing in the middle-aged white male population, largely due to preventable…