A highlight today was game theorist Myerson - who cautioned of dark dangers with regard to human suffering, human behavior, national imperialism, and aggression.
The vetting guidelines drawn up by the TEDx crew are probably helpful refreshers for any of us as we navigate our day-to-day lives, barraged as we are with promises of miracle cures and warnings of dark dangers that often have little to them.
In the press, you hear of the after-dark danger but rarely of this extraordinary burst of life and energy which goes before.
But I also explain to her the dangers of the dark, the dangers of isolated places, and will one day explain the dangers of male friends who in reality are her most likely assailants.
And although Clare admits he is "in love with the wonder and rough romance" of big ships, he is also cognisant of the dark side – danger, boredom and what he calls the "moral disgrace" of the low and unequal pay handed to heroic Filipino seamen.
Her aim – as is clear when a lone young girl looks fearfully around her, as if the audience itself were dark with dangers – is us.
Not you — the Samurai Shopper, slathered with baby oil and iodine at the beach, year after adolescent year, sunbathing on a bed of seagull guano, watching toddlers poke jellyfish with sticks, all the while roasting three shades darker than Danger Mouse.
While the song's lyrics are vaguely positive, especially for a woman who revels in celebrating dangerous love, the video — aside from an ineptly conceived opening image, in which Rihanna rolls and smokes a blunt full of diamonds — relies on dark, non-specific danger.
In the distance, the forlorn bellow of a buoy warns the dark of unseen danger.
