things that scare me

large hadron collider
infinity
time ("i think what deep time did was to make people realise that the earth was not unchanging. the biggest transformation since the enlightenment has been a shift in our attitude to time, the feeling that time is effectively infinite, both the time that's gone and the time that's to come. it's worth remembering that the summit of everest, not long ago in the context of deep time, was at the bottom of the ocean; and some of the best fossils of whales are actually found high in the himalayas.")
moral depravity
facebook
lizards/cockroaches
bar soaps/lack of liquid soaps
suspended highways