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Jan 23, 2024 · The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set its Doomsday Clock at a new time that indicates how close we are to making Earth uninhabitable for humanity.
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Sep 8, 2015 · At The Conversation, Natasha and Anthony O’Hear argue that humans have used stories of the apocalypse for centuries for all sorts of purposes: to numb people from real-world crises like poverty...
Dec 1, 2022 · The Progress Report: Why American progress has stalled, the rise of the supertall, and seeing Earth from space. Plus the end of humanity, Marjorie Taylor Greene, solving homelessness, mood...
Nov 18, 2014 · With potential sources of devastation ranging from interplanetary impacts to unstoppable pandemics, natural mega-disasters to unnatural alien invasions, global war to individual mad geniuses, there...
Jan 23, 2024 · Created in 1947 by a group of scientists who worked on the atomic bomb, the Doomsday Clock represents how close humanity might be to destruction. Over the years, the clock has been set further...
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Jul 18, 2013 · The End of the World Might Just Look Like This. Artist Ron Miller presents several scenarios—most of them scientifically plausible—of landscapes imperiled and of Earth meeting its demise
A handful of researchers, however, persist in thinking the unthinkable. With enough knowledge and proper planning, they say, it's possible to prepare for—or in some cases prevent—rare but devastating natural disasters. Giggle all you want, but the survival of human civilization could be at stake.
