In ‘Panicology,’ authors crunch the numbers and find many of our fears are unfounded (The Kansas City Star) No wonder we’re so stressed. Every year, it seems, there’s another boogeyman comin’ to get us. If it’s not swine flu, it’s bird flu. Or mad cow disease. Or SARS, terrorism or the worst recession since the Great Depression. [News Source]

Journey into the passed (Austin American-Statesman) "The pursuit of nothing is not a bad thing," Daniel Kalder says. "I don't mind if I find nothing." "Nothing" more or less describes what the 34-year-old Scottish writer has found on the first stop of his Saturday morning trek: an abandoned post office painted a queasy shade of pink in the middle of Sandy, a desolate place 10 miles north of Johnson City. The only sign of recent human life is two ... [News Source]

Chimp ban won’t hurt reindeer (The Register Citizen) HARTFORD — A bill banning the ownership of large primates was approved late Wednesday by the Connecticut General Assembly. [News Source]