News is supposed to be informative. It keeps us updated, it keeps us educated and sometimes, like Patrick Swayze's doctor, it gives us just a few months to live. Such was the case with an article that appeared on the front page of the New York Times this particularly frigid Saturday morning,
The story: two Hawaiian scientists are trying to get a judge to halt the construction of a giant particle accelerator set to be finished this summer, for fear that it will create a black hole that could consume the planet, possibly the universe. What the machine is originally designed to do (obviously it wasn't engineered to eat the Earth up) is probably explained further down in the article, but I (like most people) only read the first few paragraphs, then jump to extreme conclusions as I have only ingested the often sensationalized lede plus a few more explanatory sentences.
After committing to enjoying my last few months Queen Latifa-style, but with much more casual sex, I began to wonder: if scientists can make a proton-crashing/black hole-producing thingamabob, why can't they create a working hoverboard? Or an iPod that lasts more than two years?
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