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Apocalypse now

Nic Muranaka March 16, 2020

By now you’ve probably tried to buy toilet paper and been thwarted by apocalypse preppers, who, in their genius, already bought out all the toilet paper a week ago. As of March 14, six Utah residents...

Pāhoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii provide a small-scale model of the kind of massive floods associated with exponentially larger, more violent eruptions that would have led to cataclysmic changes in the environment that wiped out the majority of life on Earth. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

I think I remember the end of the world

Cole Eckhardt March 2, 2017

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the apocalypse, and I'm starting to think it's genetic. Humans have been imagining creative renditions of the end of the world for thousands of years. Christianity,...

Zombies invade human culture

Jess Wright October 13, 2015

With Halloween quickly approaching and the return of "The Walking Dead," I started to think about zombies, and how they’ve risen from a semi-obscure legend to a spot among other classic monsters in...

Why are zombies the new black?

April 14, 2015

Post-apocalyptic pop culture is flooding American televisions and cinemas, and no other trend has escalated in popularity quite like zombie culture. AMC’s nightmarish drama “The Walking Dead”...

5 horror flicks to ward off Valentine's Day spirits

February 5, 2015

If we're truly being honest with ourselves, we're more likely to get chased down the street by an axe murderer than to find our soulmates. In the spirit of the season, here's a compiled list of horror...

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