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Don’t want to spend the end world by yourself? Ditch your Match.com profile and find that survivalist single for you.   December 21st, 2012 is quickly approaching, which explains the huge boom in niche survivalist websites. Sites like SurvivalistSingles.com, PrepperDating.com and Kwink.com are springing up to cater to this growing demand. And with more and [...]

 Scientists say they moved the ‘Doomsday Clock’ a minute closer to midnight because nations are failing to sufficiently address nuclear proliferation, climate change, and other global threats. Citing “inaction” on renewed nuclear proliferation, climate change, and the urgent need to find sustainable sources of energy, a group of scientists has moved the “Doomsday Clock” a [...]

The National Geographic Channel has launched a new program, “Doomsday Preppers” (National Geographic Channel, Tuesdays at 9pm ET/PT) that places four to six families per episode in a theoretical, apocalyptic setting and chronicles how they respond under doomsday pressure. As part of the show, Nat Geo enlisted Scott Huntand his partner David Kobler, who run thePractical Preppers, [...]

When people look back on the period of 2011 and 2012, they may remember it as a time when the world was supposed to end. That’s assuming, of course, that the world doesn’t actually end. Fact is, these times are rife with doomsday predictions, be it Harold Camping’s failed end-times prediction this past May to [...]

There’s a new modifier on the TV grid, and we should all be afraid. Television has long been full of “Americans” (“American Restoration,” “American Chopper,” “American Hoggers”) and “Extremes” (“Extreme Marksmen,” “Extreme Makeover,” “Extreme Couponing”) and “Tops” (“Top Gear,” “Top Chef,” “Top Shot”). In recent weeks, though, an interloper has staked a claim: “Doomsday.” Last [...]