Mark O'Connell's new book about the end of the world is not called Notes from the Apocalypse, but rather Notes From an Apocalypse — a gesture of articular modesty that points to a larger truth: ...

What makes a person a prepper? Is it how many rows of cans are stacked in their basement? Intimate familiarity with the finest brands of water purification tablets? Or is it the glint in their eye ...

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‘All this ceaseless motion and consumption, all this hunger and money and flux: it was miraculous and terrible.” The experience of reading Mark O’Connell’s “Notes From an Apocalypse” in a state of ...

David Steeles Notes on the Apocalypse is a thought-provoking and meticulously researched exploration of the biblical Book of Revelation. Within the pages of this book, Steele delves into the symbolism ...

Some of Sir Isaac Newton's unpublished notes, including his discussion of the apocalypse, have sold at auction, for a whopping sum. The notes, which sold for $503,000 (378,000 British pounds) on Dec.

Handwritten notes by Isaac Newton on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sold for £378,000 ($511,000) at an auction earlier in December. The papers, from around the 1680s, had been almost completely destroyed ...

Apocalyptic stories usually keep us battling zombies, deadly viruses and environmental disasters, but Wayne Gladstone's Notes from the Internet Apocalypse (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, $23.99) deprives ...

Many retailers have been shuttering stores, but much of that is a correction from over-development of malls since the 1970s and, more recently, cheap interest rates that led many specialty retailers ...