The latest update to the symbolic clock shows that there hasn’t been much improvement over the last 12 months. Maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomi… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/343413/doomsday-clock-is-still-seconds-from-midnight…
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Doomsday Clock stands at 100 seconds to midnight
The Doomsday Clock — a hypothetical clock that measures our nearness to utter annihilation, represented by the midnight hour — maintains last year’s time. Source: https://www.livescience.com/doomsday-clock-2021.html
The Atlantic Urges Humankind to Fix the Social Web
Heading into the new year, the Atlantic’s executive editor penned a scathing warning that vast social networks like Facebook “can harm society just by existing…” Even as Facebook has insisted that it is a value-neutral vessel for the material its users choose to publish, moderation is a lever the company has tried to pull again and again. But there aren’t enough…
Software Engineer Catches Intelligent Bot Posting on Reddit
“The posts were appearing at a rate of about one per minute, and the posts were lengthy, most around six paragraphs long…” writes software engineer Philip Winston. I read through some of the posts. The quality was incredibly good, no machine could have written these even a few years ago. However there were some flaws and tells that suggested they were…
Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets are melting
Several new studies released in recent weeks paint a dire picture of the ongoing melting of Earth’s freshwater ice sheets and glaciers, 99% of which are found in Greenland and Antarctica. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/ice-sheets-glaciers-tearing-loose-worst-case-vulnerable…
Forget 2012 – is the Mayan doomsday this year ?
A controversial new theory going around on social media suggests that the Mayan doomsday is actually this year. There’s no denying that 2020 hasn’t be… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337598/forget-2012–is-the-mayan-doomsday-this-year…
15,000-Square-Foot Las Vegas Doomsday Wellness Bunker For Sale For $18 Million
CIStud writes: The 1.05-acre lot near the Las Vegas Strip houses a 5,000-square-foot home built in 1978. Beneath the five-bedroom, six-bathroom home across the entire property is a 15,000-square-foot subterranean concrete and steel rectangular-shaped doomsday wellness bunker outfitted with an array of lighting control that highlights a pool, spa, waterfall, trees, guest house, barbecue, fountain and 500-linear feet of floor-to-ceiling illuminated…
Notes from an Apocalypse review: A lively romp through the end of days
Mark O’Connell’s book Notes from an Apocalypse is an exploration of doomsday preparation from Mars colonists to fallout shelter estate agents Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632800-400-notes-from-an-apocalypse-review-a-lively-romp-through-the-end-of-days/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
The Rich Are Preparing for Coronavirus Differently
The new coronavirus knows no national borders or social boundaries. That doesn’t mean that social boundaries don’t exist. An anonymous reader shares a report: “En route to Paris,” Gwyneth Paltrow wrote on Instagram last week, beneath a shot of herself on an airplane heading to Paris Fashion Week and wearing a black face mask. “I’ve already been in this movie,” she…
How Norway secured its Arctic doomsday vault against climate change
The flooding of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2016 raised concerns over the future of seed backups in a warming world – so Norway made €20 million of upgrades to the facility Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2235936-how-norway-secured-its-arctic-doomsday-vault-against-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…