What Preppers Get Wrong About the Apocalypse
A few years ago, the media theorist Douglas Rushkoff was driven deep into the desert to a luxury compound, where five very wealthy men sat him…
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Our Entire Universe May Exist in a Black Hole
In February 2025, a paper appeared in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reporting a small…
Japan’s Gates to Nowhere
About 800 meters from where the second atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki on the morning of August 9,…
Why Did Sasquatch Endure as America’s Most Recognizable Folklore Monster?
On the morning of August 27, 1958, a bulldozer operator named Jerry Crew climbed onto his machine at…
The View From Inside: Why Almost No One Knows They’re in a Cult
Just before midnight on December 20, 1954, a small group of believers gathered in a house in the…
What Rock Climbing Exercises
In bouldering, the standard unit of the sport is not a route or a climb. It is a…
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