Perhaps the strongest words to describe insignificance is the question "Who cares?".  Those people or things that we are concerned about are also those people or things that we care about.  Some people have a large list and some have a very short...

Most people say they want to simplify their life but don't know how, or as Confucius said "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated". In all areas, a genuine simple life is how you define a balance between excess and deprivation. ...

The discussion about the current Swine Flu pandemic brought up the term relative risk, which is the ratio of the proportion of those exposed to the non-exposed. The raging health care debate brought up the term risk continuum, which is often a...