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Emergences and emergencies
On the limits of our ability to recognize and act upon dangerous situations before it's too late
Oct 25
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Alex Wellerstein
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Five years, that's all we've got!
Humming along to David Bowie while the Climate Clock counts down
Oct 17
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Alex Wellerstein
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Not a drop to drink
The plausible eco-horror of Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Water Knife"
Oct 11
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Alex Wellerstein
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Two generations of nuclear hopes and nuclear fears
A conversation with historian Zachary Schrag and his father Philip Schrag about their multi-generational encounters with nuclear threats
Oct 4
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Alex Wellerstein
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September 2024
Dreaming the undreamable
The narrative value of literal nuclear nightmares
Sep 27
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Alex Wellerstein
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"Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?"
The West German nuclear zeitgeist as reflected in two pop songs
Sep 18
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Alex Wellerstein
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The Occasion Instant, 1961
What can be learned from how people responded to false alarms about nuclear war in the late 1950s?
Sep 11
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Alex Wellerstein
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The Trigger Effect
James Burke's vision of a suddenly un-connected world
Sep 6
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Alex Wellerstein
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Cinéma verité, cinéma mort
How guerrilla filmmaking and the French New Wave gave birth to the modern zombie apocalypse film with Romero's Night of the the Living Dead
Sep 3
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Billy Middleton
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August 2024
Famished barbarians
The very British fears of Sam Youd's The Death of Grass
Aug 27
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Alex Wellerstein
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How much time will our civilization survive?
A conversation with historian Nasser Zakariya on "doomsday statistics" and other forms of scientific catastrophism
Aug 23
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Alex Wellerstein
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The perfect horror of Chesley Bonestell's nuked New York
Gritty realism in the artwork for a 1950 article on "Hiroshima, U.S.A."
Aug 21
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Alex Wellerstein
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