by Adam Tod Brown

If you’ve been paying attention to the news at all, it won’t surprise you to know that 2011 is on pace to be the all-time deadliest year for tornadoes in the United States. With a month still remaining in tornado season, there have already been 519 deaths as a result of twisters this year, which equals a record set in 1953.

With tornadoes tearing an unprecedented and deadly path across the United States, we decided to take a closer look at these fearsome freaks of nature and what you can do to protect yourself if one touches down in your area.

Here are ten things you should know about surviving a tornado. Read more »

By: David Moye The Huffington Post

There are approximately nine months left of the current cycle of the Mayan calendar before it ends and — if you are a believer — before the world ends as well.

The odds look good, however, that the world will survive this doomsday prophecy, much as it survived the Y2K fears of 1999, Harold Camping’s two end-of-days predictions of 2011, and every end-of-world prediction in the last 2,000 years. Read more »

by: Zero Hedge

A few days after the one year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, nobody talks about it anymore. After all it’s “fixed”, and if it isn’t, the Fed will fix it. Remember in the New Normal nothing bad is allowed the happen. So for those who have forgotten, here is a reminder.

From ASR, a global coastal and marine consulting firm, The Radioactive Seawater Impact Map

We use a Lagrangian particles dispersal method to track where free floating material (fish larvae, algae, phytoplankton, zooplankton…) present in the sea water near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station plant could have gone since the earthquake on March 11th. THIS IS NOT A REPRESENTATION OF THE RADIOACTIVE PLUME CONCENTRATION. Since we do not know exactly how much contaminated water and at what concentration was released into the ocean, it is impossible to estimate the extent and dilution of the plume. However, field monitoring by TEPCO Read more »