Doomsday Clock Unchanged

The Doomsday Clock that (arbitrarily) illustrates how close humanity is to an apocalypse remains stuck at three minutes to midnight. Continue reading →

Technology Double Bubble

Technology may be in a bubble. An interview with Robert Shiller describes two bubbles: 1) a classic technology stock bubble, Continue reading →

Majority Expect The End Is Near

Since World War II there has been a real fear of some version of global annihilation. First there was Mutually Continue reading →

Chernobyl And Nature And Us

The nuclear accident at Chernobyl was and is horrendous. Millions of people were affected, either directly by relocation (and probable Continue reading →

Nuclear Waste Sinks Into Pacific

Mistakes were made. Nuclear bomb testing in the South Pacific didn’t always produce a successful explosion. That was why they Continue reading →

Robots Do Jobs No Person Can

A robot has been sent into the reactor at Fukushima, something no human could survive. Robots are developing well enough Continue reading →

Cleaning Fukushima

The nuclear reactors at Fukushima leaked cooling water into the ocean and local land. Much work has gone into containment. Continue reading →

Fewer Nukes More Players

The number of nuclear warheads is less than a sixth of what it was in the mid-eighties. From a high Continue reading →