We've got seven years, stuck on my eyes, seven years, what a surprise, seven years, my brain hurts a lot, seven years, that's all we've got, &c
Statistical laws suggest a terrorist attack deadlier than the World Trade Center disaster will occur within seven years, if current trends continue, two researchers say...
Terrorism and war both follow mathematical patterns, the researchers found, called power laws. A simple example of a power law is a rule that has been found to govern earthquakes: for each tenfold increase in a quake’s strength, the there is a tenfold decrease in the frequency of a quake of that strength. Similar laws govern the length of streams, solar flares and many other phenomena...
Young and Clauset reached their conclusions after studying statistics on terrorist attacks worldwide between 1968 and 2004. The statistics come from a database of the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism in Oklahoma City, U.S.A.
This is actually pretty reassuring, it's a perfect fit with my general goal of getting out of NYC by the time I'm 30. No worries!