Survival Week

What’s the One Device You Need to Survive the Apocalypse?

The zombie horde is coming. The pandemic is spreading. An EMP just fried the grid. One way or another, you need to get out of this soon-to-be-godforsaken city. You gaze forlornly at your glorious pile of technology, knowing you’ve gotta make a hard choice about what to bring. All week at Gizmodo, we’ve been exploring…

Tech News Maddie Stone Sep 19

The Last Man On Earth Proves That Survival Doesn’t Always Have to Suck

I love a good post-apocalyptic tale. The Road, The Walking Dead, The Leftovers—these are all fine examples of end-times entertainment. But the problem with all these things is that they’re so damn depressing. Why does the demise of humankind have to be so sad? That’s why I was so pleased to discover the show The…

Tech News Alissa Walker Sep 18

Meet the Engineers Trying to Prevent the Destruction of Humanity

From asteroid impacts to robot takeovers to superbug pandemics, there are a thousand ways human civilization could be destroyed. Most of us prefer not to dwell on the End Times, but for the folks at the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, the apocalypse is just another day at work. In the spirit of Survival Week, I…

Tech News Maddie Stone Sep 18

What Japan Can Teach Us About Prepping for a Major Earthquake

Earlier this year, it was revealed that the US Pacific Northwest could face a 1-in-10 chance of a suffering a catastrophic, 9.0 earthquake within the next 50 years. We have to do a better job preparing for it. That’s where Japan comes in. Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. We…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Sep 18

How These Structures Were Engineered to Survive a Global Catastrophe

Whether spurred by the Cold War, climate change, or just the seemingly inevitable arrival of an asteroid strike, humans have gone to extraordinary trouble to plan—and build—for the worst. These buildings range from the underground bunker where FEMA will broadcast emergency radio alerts to the arctic vault where the Norwegian government is amassing a collection…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Sep 17

14 Dumbest Ways That Humans Will Survive The Apocalypse

The whole point of a post-apocalyptic story is that someone survives. But when you have a calamity that wipes out 99.9 percent of all humans, then how exactly do you explain the survivors? In honor of the new Maze Runner movie, here are the 14 dumbest ways people survive the apocalypse. 1) God swoops in…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Sep 17

Do You Have A Crazy Survival Story?

It’s Survival Week here at Gizmodo, and we want your tales of how you got out of life-threatening situations. Indefinitely Wild’s Wes Siler compiled an exhaustive guide to How to Survive Almost Anything, from avalanches to plane crashes to being forced to be your own doctor under dire conditions. I feel lucky in that I…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern Sep 16

Does Canned Food Ever Really Go Bad?

Why, hello! We’re so glad to see you made it past the velociraptornadoes, sinkhole maze, and fire ants made of literal fire to join us here in our Survival Week bunker. Please help yourself to a single (one, please!) rationed water bottle as we discuss our now increasingly urgent question: Does tinned food go bad?…

io9 Ria Misra Sep 16

Close Calls: Three Times When Humanity Barely Escaped Extinction

Today it looks like humans will have to launch themselves into space to get enough room for our collective population, but we weren’t always so robust a species. There are three times in history during which humans nearly went extinct. Here’s what threatened us, and how we survived. 1.2 Million Years Ago: Humanity Before We…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 16

Why Do People Take Selfies In Emergencies?

When a United Airlines flight made an emergency landing this summer due to medical situations on board, as the oxygen masks fell down, some passengers’ phone cameras went up. But psychologists say the instinct to snap a selfie in a near-death experience isn’t all narcissism—it’s also about survival and self-preservation. The ‘Survival Selfie’ Our friends…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Sep 16

Meet the Preppers Who Are Ready for the Next Massive Solar Storm

Hurricanes and blizzards are petty trifles compared with the weather phenomenon that troubles apocalypse preppers: They’re worried about a giant electromagnetic storm wiping out all technology. It’s an unlikely scenario — a massive solar storm strikes only about once every 500 years — but if the Earth was hit by one, power grids across the…

Tech News Maddie Stone Sep 15

The Time I Survived

Who am I to be writing about survival? Well, I’m someone who’s survived. It’s happened a few times, but this is the story that was closest to being my last. So there I was one night, riding home on my motorcycle, nothing out of the ordinary. The bike I was riding was one of the…

Tech News Wes Siler Sep 15

How To Survive Pretty Much Anything

Survival is a mix of preparation, knowledge, tools and luck. This week we’ll be exploring the practice and, to get us started, here’s the skills you need to live through pretty much anything. I don’t like to call IndefinitelyWild a “survival” publication, preferring instead “Adventure travel in the outdoors.” But, doing this stuff involves preparing…

Tech News Wes Siler Sep 15

Why I’m Still Obsessed With Survivor After Watching All 450 Episodes

For the 30th season of Survivor, my friends and I started a fantasy league. A Survivor fantasy league, where points are awarded based on characters’ actions on the hit TV show. And as stupid as that sounds, I’ll gladly look like an idiot to pay tribute to one of my favorite TV shows. In case…

Television Germain Lussier Sep 14

This Week, Your Survival Is at Stake

You know you worry about it sometimes. What if there were a massive earthquake, or a huge storm … or you just got lost in the wilderness, with nothing more than your wits and a few gadgets in your pockets? This week on io9 and Gizmodo, we’ll tell you how to survive. Or not. All…

Tech News Annalee Newitz Sep 14

Survival Week

What’s the One Device You Need to Survive the Apocalypse?

The Last Man On Earth Proves That Survival Doesn’t Always Have to Suck

Meet the Engineers Trying to Prevent the Destruction of Humanity

What Japan Can Teach Us About Prepping for a Major Earthquake

How These Structures Were Engineered to Survive a Global Catastrophe

14 Dumbest Ways That Humans Will Survive The Apocalypse

Do You Have A Crazy Survival Story?

Does Canned Food Ever Really Go Bad?

Close Calls: Three Times When Humanity Barely Escaped Extinction

Why Do People Take Selfies In Emergencies?

Meet the Preppers Who Are Ready for the Next Massive Solar Storm

The Time I Survived

How To Survive Pretty Much Anything

Why I’m Still Obsessed With Survivor After Watching All 450 Episodes

This Week, Your Survival Is at Stake

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