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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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Ideas, histories, anomalies and futures worth carrying into the next timeline.
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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…
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Japan’s Gates to Nowhere
About 800 meters from where the second atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki on the morning of August 9,…
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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…
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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…
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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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