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Human Extinction

Super-Volcano Not To Blame For Humans' Near-Extinction, Ash Study Shows

Posted 04.30.2013 | Science
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By: Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor Published: 04/29/2013 03:04 PM EDT on LiveScience A supervolcanic eruption thought to have nearl...

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Bianca Bosker

WATCH: Are We Risking Our Own Extinction?

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 04.29.2013 | Science
Read More: Technology Risks, Center for the Study of Existential Risk, Human Extinction, Video, Talk Nerdy to Me, Biology, Cyber, Computer Science, Nuclear, Robots, Bianca Bosker, Environmental Threats, Artificial Intelligence, Science News

Technology is risky business. At least, that's what some scientists fear: the proposed Center for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of C...

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Celebrating Apophis Day

Dan Mack | Posted 02.26.2013 | TED Weekends
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Dan Mack

Who cares if life as we know it can continue on the planet Earth? This is not a rhetorical question. Who, specifically, cares? As importantly, why should those of us who read this today give Near Earth Object detection and deflection any of our precious time, money, or attention?

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The Trouble With Meteors

John Geoghegan | Posted 02.22.2013 | TED Weekends
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John Geoghegan

Unfortunately for us, earth has experienced at least five mass extinctions during the past 540 million years. Some scientists believe it may be as many as twenty. In other words, mass extinction events are not uncommon.

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Facing Existential Risk: How the U.S. Survived the Atom Bomb and the Ozone Hole

William Heegaard | Posted 08.01.2012 | College
Read More: Human Extinction, Nuclear War, Ozone Depletion, Thesis Project, Cold War USSR, Existential Risk, US Foreign Policy, College Thesis Project, The Thesis Project, Cold War, Ozone Hole, College News
William Heegaard

In this project I examine the history behind American perception of human extinction. I explore how existential risk has shaped foreign policy by tracing the domestic debate over nuclear war and ozone depletion.

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8 Ways We Might Be Causing Our Own Extinction

Fred Guterl | Posted 07.22.2012 | Books
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Fred Guterl

Our own success as a species has created new a terrifying risks that didn't exist a few decades ago. By our dominating presence on the planet, we are in danger of upsetting climate systems in ways we don't fully understand.

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Superman Versus The Supermemes

Rebecca Costa | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: American Education, Human Extinction, Thining Our Way Out of Extinction, Waiting for Superman, Education, Extinction, Education Crisis, Rebecca Costa, Watchman's Rattle, Education in America, Books News
Rebecca Costa

How did we allow our educational systems to fall so far, so fast? When did the welfare of our children go the same way as health care, the safety of our food and the callous obliteration of our environment?

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Work In Groups? Tax Junk Food?

Rebecca Costa | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Rebecca Costa

We reach a "cognitive threshold" beyond which we cannot progress. Another way to say this is that humans, and human societies, can go no further than their inherited biology will allow them to.

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