Cape Town Braces for Day Zero
Despite an exemplary record in local water conservation and water-table management, the city of Cape Town is scheduled to run out of water sometime this summer. The locals are calling it “Day Zero.”
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Extralife: A Long Way from the Best of the Best of Times
On Extralife, Darlingside casts the apocalypse in harmonious acapella Americana tones, like a version of Simon & Garfunkel for the day after doomsday.
The Answer to Thermouclear Monarchy is Regicide
In the United States, the final and decisive authority to launch a nuclear strike falls to one person: the sitting President. This aspect of the American military system has been critically dubbed “thermonuclear monarchy.”
Dark Kitchen of the Soul
Food is one of the first things that we think about in the morning. So, it’s a given that we’ll have strong feelings about our relationship to food during the collapse of human civilization.
Ten Billion And/Or Bust
What happens when the “population bomb” detonates in a land of middle-class suburbs? The jury is out in the ongoing debate between “wizards” and “prophets.”
The Birth and Rebirth of China’s Atomic City
The “Atomic City” of China is experiencing a revitalization, however many of the dark secrets of China’s nuclear program remain hidden.
The Complexities of the Technicolor Mushroom Cloud
A few notes on the carnivalesque aesthetic subtext of detonating a 75-foot-tall technicolor mushroom cloud over the University of Chicago campus.
Black Holes: The Breathing, Fire-Eating Demons of the Universe
Strap yourself in for a wild ride across the event horizon and into an apocalyptic world of infinite mass and gravity.
How to Talk About the Apocalypse With Your Family
It’s probably time you started practicing how to talk about the apocalypse with your family, no matter your particular paranoia.
It’s The End Of The Wort As We Know It
In addition to tasty notes of goji berries and rose hips, you’ll get “all the necessities to ‘potentially’ outlast the apocalypse” with a new beer from Dogfish Head brewery.