Sorry about the lack of posts this week. We've been waiting on some new artwork to come in so we can show you, and we've also been busy proofreading the EP layout and assigning chapters of future books to freelancers. In the meantime, here is some end-of-the-week apocalypse for you:

Over at Avatar | Anima, John Carter McKnight is liveblogging the Global Catastrophic Risks conference, which is going on today in California. (This is the sort of stuff Firewall would be interested in in EP.) So far he's covered Jamais Cascio on "Risks and Resilience" and Eliezer Yudkowsky on "Cognitive Biases in the assessment of Risk."

George Dvorsky is also throwing out live updates on twitter.

image credit: Jamais Cascio

How to Destroy the Earth. A detailed guide.

The Earth is in the midst of it's sixth mass extinction period: 50% of all species dying out.

"The current extinction event is due to human activity, paving the
planet, creating pollution, many of the things that we are doing today,"

Go humans. Rah team.

obEP: Researchers send hired scavengers down to a dangerous ruined Earth to retrieve genetic samples of lost Terran plant or animal life.