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Imagine undergoing the backbreaking labor of tilling your garden, mixing in compost and manure, and planting, only for your precious lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers to curl up and not produce. Maybe this has happened to you, and if so, chances are it wasn’t your fault. An herbicide called aminopyralid has contaminated many common organic

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Although an electromagnetic pulse that kills electronics in a wide area is relatively unlikely, it is still realistic and one of the more serious scenarios you can prepare for. One of the most effective ways you can protect your electronics is by putting them in a Faraday cage — a scientific concept that blocks the

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Texas is still reeling after last week’s massive, state-wide power and gas outage. It wasn’t just the inability to keep warm that created problems—water pipe bursts did historic damage to homes and businesses. Here’s a pipe burst map from Austin: Plumbing aisles are packed in TX, as you can imagine: Pipe bursts coupled with people

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The massive cold front over much of the US is causing catastrophe and crisis in Texas, home to more than 29 million people. People are experiencing freezing temperatures inside their homes as the state’s energy grid and gas pipelines have failed. Approximately 4 million people have suffered from power outages during some of the coldest

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