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October 17, 2013
Are you ready for an earthquake? Make sure today.
What if an earthquake hit right now, the moment you read this? A big one. You get a few seconds of puzzling low rumbling to figure out what’s going on, and then the room you’re in lurches to the side and back. The floor bounces, the walls creak and crackle, books and papers topple and slide, and heavy things all around you start to wobble and flop over. You had no …
December 19, 2012
60 hours until the Not-pocalypse
This morning I woke up to this alarming warning, reminding me that the world as we know it will come to an end on Friday. Fortunately my nerves have been calmed by all manner of authorities reminding me in official terms that the world is in all likelihood not going to end on Friday. Phew. Dodged a bullet there. First off, the U.S. government says it’ll be okay: Scary Rumors about …
