The Distance We Invent to Feel Safe There is a particular kind of lie that modern civilization tells itself, not out of malice but out of necessity—the belief that certain endings are too large, too absolute, to truly happen. Nuclear war has quietly settled into that category, filed somewhere between historical trauma and speculative fiction,Continue reading “The Day the World Didn’t End — It Just Stopped Working”
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How will the Universe end?
I would say that the Big Freeze scenario is the most likely, as the Universe keeps expanding on forever, and ever, and ever, and ever, until nothing but sub-atomic particles remain. I’m no real expert in this field and there are plenty of answers here which explain Universe Death much better than I do, so IContinue reading “How will the Universe end?”
How To Survive When The City Turns Off The Taps
Here in the United States, we rarely hear much about what’s going on in the rest of the world. Our news media is so focuses on the latest scandal, many of which are of their own creation, that they tend to ignore what’s going on in other countries. Yet every day, people around the worldContinue reading “How To Survive When The City Turns Off The Taps”