10 Skills You’ll Need to Survive the Apocalypse

If surviving is even worth it, that is….

The Garbage Dump in Ethiopia Where Death comes to Life

This town’s Waste Management solutions keep…

The Primary Component

I worked as a wildland firefighter for a couple of seasons, and it’s an interesting job—sometimes. There’s an unusual…

The Pursuit of Protein

Excerpted from ‘The Disaster Diaries’

What’s in the 1% DNA Difference From the Chimps?

Humanity can hope for a better future only if quality…

Pack Your Lunch

An excerpt from ‘The Disaster Diaries’

Crying. Wolf.

Saipan, 2001:
I'm on the bed in the bedroom of the ground floor apartment that I no longer share with my first husband. He's standing over me and I feel very, very tired. And desperate. But mostly just exhausted. The kind of soul-grinding exhaustion that makes me want to curl in on myself and disappear…

Accuracy of Data Stored in Human Brains

The invisible powerful dimension that shapes human lives and…

Survival: When startups do what they gotta do

A triumph of perserverence and implimentation over brilliant ideas

Three years into operations Fred Smith’s company, costs of supplies started rising sharply, he was losing…

What world do you want to live in?

Seeing unhappy faces around yourself decreases your chances for…