Posthuman Blues

Will the world end on Wednesday?

If you think it's unlikely that we will all be sucked into a giant black hole that will swallow the world, as German chemistry professor Otto Rössler of the University of Tübingen posits, and so carry on with your life as normal, only to find out that it's true, you'll be a bit miffed, won't you?

On the other hand, perhaps an insatiable artificial black hole is the only thing capable of averting a McCain presidency.