Basic Survival
Simple Biology.
There are a lot of things that could get in our way, post apocalypse, and perhaps the most simple one is ones that post apocalypse games, literature and comics rarely…
Trivial Details
Basic Survival
Don't fight fair.
Sometimes on TV or even in real life you'll hear people say they could have won a fight if only the other person had only fought fair... Really? There's some…
Basic Survival
The Hollywood Tough Girl, and why she would die immediately.
In more recent years, Hollywood has attempted to be slightly less disgustingly misogynistic in it's treatment of women, more out of an attempt to appear forward-thinking rather than a genuine belief that…
Apocalyptic Living
What I've learned from watching science fiction shows
I watch a lot of science fiction. I read alot of science fiction, too, but I grew up watching Star Trek and Stargate. Yes, I'm a geek. (It's okay, you…
Basic Survival
Apocalyptic Travel Tips
Travel is a messy and difficult thing. Often because it involves more than just you, a point A, and a point B. There are gatekeepers who want to make sure…
Post-Apocalypse People
Why you should try to stay on our good sides.
Alright, so this is actually a post about us, because we are awesome. In March, ICoS will have been going for a year. A year! In that year, I have…
Preparedness
Non-Essential But Awesome Skills To Learn Before The Apocalypse
I have mad skills when it comes to Microsoft Excel. I can cook a mean dinner. And, I'm somehow capable of folding a fitted sheet without using curse words or outside tools.…
Alarmism
Edible microchip: good for your health?
So last Wednesday, on January 18, there was this little online movement to protest SOPA. Maybe you heard of it? (Students everywhere may have lost their minds temporarily, since English Wikipedia…
Alarmism
Sexocalypse
In a moment of madness I asked my twitter followers what they'd like me to write about. They said a Sexocalypse. Yeah. So, that's what I'm doing. Needless to say…
Alarmism
Supertuberculosis
Sadly, this isn't a post about crime-fighting tuberculosis (even though that would be cool). Ann emailed us this link last week about totally drug-resistant tuberculosis (TDR-TB). There have been at…