Book blog: The numbers don't lie

In the novel " The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" a quote that really struck me as interesting was " Sometimes a whole population of frogs, or worms, or people, can die for no reason whatsoever, just because that is the way the numbers work."

This quote was used to explain how many frogs there were in a certain ecosystem. With a equation and many variables, scientists found a way to predict the number of frogs in a certain area. But when the numbers where a certain way, they described it as being chaos. Unpredictable deaths for no reason. This amazed me that he compared this way of thinking to peoples lives. Is there a equation that can predict when large amounts of people will die? if people could determine when "chaos" would occure, what could they do to prevent it, or maybe they cant prevent it... What if numbers would eventually catch up to us, and somehow kill us?

A Battle for the Books

In the past couple of years there has been much debate on which superhero could beat up who, and today I'm going to answer one of the most grueling conflicts. Who would win, the ghastly Ghost Rider or the daring Dare Devil? I am here to end this conflict once and for all! While Dare Devil is blind, he has a sonar-like ability that allows him to see objects, along with intense hand to hand combat skills. Ghost Rider is a man who sold his soul to the devil, cursed to forever to ride around on his chopper with a flaming skull head, his weapon of choice is a flaming whip that he uses to banish his foes to hell. The answer to this dilemma is obvious, Ghost Rider would kill Dare Devil because of one simple fact, Ghost Rider is a hell spawn, he cant die, while Dare Devil is just some blind guy with some fighting skills. If Dare Devil even tried to get close to Ghost rider, he would be grabbed by the hell whip, and burnt to a crisp.