Very reassuring

How nice. Scientists are now "pretty certain" that their New York toy won't create a black hole liable to suck the planet to a mysterious doom. So that isn't top of the list of threats.

Personally I'm much more worried about climate change and Aids than about human threats like terrorism or nuclear war. Mostly because while those might be a problem, global warming and Aids already are, and nobody seems to be doing much of anything about it. Not where it counts, anyway - viz, there's a total lack of adequate action on Aids in Africa (thanks, Mbeki) and on carbon emissions in the US (thanks, Dubya).

Not to put a downer on your day, or anything.

So how about that super-volcano, then? What makes the likelihood of that happening in the next 10 years "very high"?

Also not that bothered about the robots, because for one thing, we've been hearing this since at least 1930, and somehow we're never quite as close as we're supposed to be. And for another, we all know that Will Smith will be there to save us when the time comes, so that's all right. Even the combined might of Jeff Goldblum and Jake Gyllenhaal were not enough to avert global warming-induced global freezing, though.