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The headline was chilling: "Chile Quake May Have Shortened Days on Earth." Unclear whose days would shrink, just when or by how much.

The change, it turns out, may well be permanent--but minuscule. Each day, I learned upon reading the full story, will be 1.26 microseconds shorter. But in these Code Orange times, we get freaked out by disasters, no matter how small. Unfortunately, because most of us are woefully scientifically illiterate, we're easily rattled by headlines like these, phrased to scare us into anxiously watching, listening or reading what follows, insignificant as it may be. Thank goodness for www.snopes.com .

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