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Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House

[John MacWilliams’s] more general point was that managing risks was an act of the imagination. And the human imagination is a poor tool for judging risk. People are really good at responding to the crisis that just happened, as they naturally imagine that whatever just happened is most likely to happen again. They are less good at imagining a crisis before it happens—and taking action to prevent it. For just this reason the D.O.E. under Secretary Moniz had set out to imagine disasters that had never happened before. One scenario was a massive attack on the grid on the Eastern Seaboard that forced millions of Americans to be relocated to the Midwest. Another was a Category Three hurricane hitting Galveston, Texas; a third was a major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest that, among other things, shut off the power. Yet, even then, the disasters they imagined were the sort of disasters that a Hollywood screenwriter might imagine: vivid, dramatic events. MacWilliams thought that, while such things did happen, they were not the sole or even the usual source of catastrophe. What was most easily imagined was not what was most probable. It wasn’t the things you think of when you try to think of bad things happening that got you killed, he said. “It is the less detectable, systemic risks.” Another way of putting this is: The risk we should most fear is not the risk we easily imagine. It is the risk that we don’t.

via http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis

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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

Fire and Ice (1920) by Robert Frost, as quoted by Bella in Eclipse (2007) by Stephenie Meyer 

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Rihanna Talks Chris Brown and Fame in Vanity Fair

#Shopping SInger Rihanna talks about Chris Brown in the November 2015 issue of Vanity Fair. Read more on shoppingblog.com http://dlvr.it/CPGlcR #Blog

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Caitlyn Jenner Shows Off Summer’s ‘70s Trend in New “I Am Cait” Promo

E!’s just released the second promo for I Am Cait, which premiers on the channel one month from today. In the clip, Caitlyn Jenner frolics on her terrace wearing a flowing pink dress that could’ve been plucked from any of this season’s ‘70s inspired editorials. 

We’re finally getting a good look at Cait’s personal style, after the glammed up starlet look she debuted in Vanity Fair. Jeans, sweaters, heels, lots of jewelry, and even an up-do! “I’m telling my story,” she says to anyone wondering why she’s filming a reality show. “People don’t understand…”

After over 60 years of wearing clothes with which she doesn’t identify, she’s visibly excited to be getting to express her true self. “We’re going to talk about everything,” she says. “We’re going to do a lot of fun things for the first time, we’re going to go shopping for the first time!” 

Related: Fashion’s Already in Love With Caitlyn Jenner

Bruce Jenner Reveals Caitlyn on Vanity Fair Cover