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The title is obviously taken from Brad Werner's presentation at the American Geophyiscal Union conference in San Francisco: "Is Earth F**ked? Dynamical Futility of Global Environmental Management and Possibilities for Sustainability via Direct Action Activism". Coming from a group of scientists and academics, this is an uncharacteristic call to arms against the status quo. And with that, we count down to the end of the world as told by believers in the Mayan calendar.
Speaking of activism, here is Alan Moore’s Essay for the Occupy Comics Anthology.
Watch the anime-inspired Greenpeace video for their Detox our Future campaign.
Climate change deniers are hard to convince. What else is new.
In one of the odder moves to jump on the 2012 bandwagon, Australian prime minister Julia Gillard issued her own tongue-in-cheek announcement.
The second season of Doomsday Preppers recently began airing on Nat Geo Asia. I wander about the tenuous grasp on reality exhibited by some of the people in the first two episodes. Here's my review of season one.
Alex Kane notes the sillier side of this December 21st hullabaloo.
Watch Decay, a zombie movie filmed by physics PhD students at CERN's Large Hadron Collider facility. I can't even begin to imagine how cool that must have been to film.
Know what? If the doomsayers are right, my fat ass will be among the first to fall to the starving cannibal horde.
Here are Hollywood's dumbest apocalypses put on film.
In case you're not frightened enough, here are the ways technology can run amuck and kill us all.
The Chinese government is treating 2012 believers as serious threats.
Watch this lovely video based on Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot.
Annalee Newitz gives school survival tips to young geeks. I wish someone had given me this advice when I was younger. It could have helped.
I missed the memo stating that geek dads are the new MILFs.
Batman is superhumanly tough. How else could he still be fighting crime, despite enduring a long injury-prone career.
Is Superman Boring? No more than most superheroes who've been around for decades.
