Why Do We Worry?

This article is interesting. Turns out, although most of our daily activities (driving to work, influenza) are more dangerous than the exotic risks that we face (avian flu), the actions which we can control in some regard we are less fearful of, probably because we can influence the outcome, and we trust ourselves. Maybe it also has to do with the fact the media outlets, the same media outlets that wrote the article, blow a lot of these far-fetched risks out of proportion. Funny how they weren't able to point the finger back at themselves.