Sid mentioned the Space Weather web site, which had been mentioned at least once before in SurvivalBlog. This site has great information on close-call asteroids, solar flare predictions, and so forth.
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Rookie found a link to an interesting story about firearms ownership in Switzerland: An Armory in Gun-Shy Europe. Rookie’s comment: “It’s good to know that in at least one country it’s considered normal to keep a high power defensive rifle in your closet. And that the government gives it to you for free, for life! Of course, it’s no surprise that the Washington Post spun the story to make it sound like the Swiss want to get rid of them.”
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Reader Alfie Omega recommend the Backwoods Home Magazine e-newsletter. I’ve been a fan of Dave Duffy’s writings ever since the first year that Backwoods Home was published. It is a great magazine, well worth a subscription.
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Aaron mentioned an article from MIT‘s Technology Review, with more on the U.S. Army’s “Tactical Biorefinery”, which was mentioned once before in SurvivalBlog.