Guide to Dubai
Baba Vanga’s Predictions of “Natural Disasters”
This old baboushka was a blind Bulgarian who lived in the mountains all her life, from 1911 to 1996.
Big Haboobies: A Short History of Sandstorms
How often do you think about sandstorms? Not as often as you should, is the answer. Sandstorms have been fucking with people since the dawn of time and even if you are currently reading this while in a sandstorm, there’s still a lot you should know...
Ghost Lake: The Aral Sea Disaster
Uzbekistan’s former Aral Sea region is a toxically charged sand pit that once housed one of the world’s largest lakes. Once covering 26,300 square miles, the giant lake is now split into four pitiful puddles of what it used to be, having dramatically...
How To Build a Bunker
My Dad lives on his own 40-acre planet out the middle of redneck no-where where he does whatever strange and amazing things he wants. So it wasn’t really much of a surprise when he casually mentioned that he was thinking about building a fully loaded...
The Guide to Dubai
Welcome to Dubai, where everything is brand new, except for the customs. It's really weird.
The Guide to Dubai
Welcome to Dubai, where everything is brand new, except for the customs. It's really weird.
Guide to Surviving a Natural Disaster
Surviving a natural disaster is all about preparation. Beyond the immediate physical things, like for example, collecting massive quantities of preserved food or sharpening your longbow skills, you’re also going to need to prepare your mind and its...
The Guide to Dubai
Welcome to Dubai, where everything is brand new, except for the customs. It's really weird.
Lost Wreckage
A catalogue of the weirdest wreckage that’s been found after natural disasters. From severed human feet found in Canada from the tsunami of 2004, washed up Harley Davidsons in Oregon from Fukushima, to ghost ships in Alaska, we look at where they were...
The Guide to Dubai
It has the world's biggest shopping mall, tallest building, and most expensive hotel. And still cars here get stuck in the sand all the time because it's a massive city built in the middle of the desert. Welcome to Dubai, where everything is brand new...
Yellowstone Caldera Is America’s Favourite Supervolcano
Since 2004 scientists have noticed a giant pulsating bulge at the floor of Yellowstone Lake, which sits right on top of an unpredictable lava reservoir known as a supervolcano. It doesn't take a geologist to figure out that this cannot be good.
The Guide to Dubai
It has the world's biggest shopping mall, tallest building, and most expensive hotel. And still cars here get stuck in the sand all the time because it's a massive city built in the middle of the desert. Welcome to Dubai, where everything is brand new...