survival

The view from 1980

Doomsday scenarios have been around probably since the first two humans started gossiping to one another about how the saber tooth tigers were learning to read minds. Sometimes...

What is your disaster personality?

What kind of person do you become when the ever-lovin' excrement hits the fan? Do you function calmly and rationally or go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel? In...

Preparedness by the numbers

As humans, sometimes we put off a task forever if it seems too complicated to think about all at once. And if the proposed action doesn't provide immediate critical benefit, so...

Surviving a plane crash

It's every traveler's worst nightmare – a plane crash. Specifically YOUR plane crashing. Certain death, right? It turns out that between 1980 and 2000, almost 90% of airplane...