Exothermic is the leader in self-reliance brand marketing, but we like to share our wisdom with the world. Here are the top stories we’ve identified this week in our markets:

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• Pizza Guy or Assassin? Kuna AI Recognizes Cars Outside Your Home Instantly, With the new AI software, Kuna’s camera-equipped system can identify cars based on the make, model, and color, and over time, it will learn to match the vehicles to their owners.
• 8 In 10 People Now See Climate Change As a ‘Catastrophic Risk,’ Says Survey, The survey of more than 8,000 people in eight countries — the United States, China, India, Britain, Australia, Brazil, South Africa and Germany — found that 84 percent of people now consider climate change a “global catastrophic risk.” That puts worry about climate change only slightly behind fears about large-scale environmental damage and the threat of politically motivated violence escalating into war.
• The Doomsday Vault Isn’t Flooded But We’re All Still Going to Die, The

  

  Svalbard ‘doomsday’ seed vault had flooded because of global warming-induced high temperatures melting the surrounding permafrost. But according to one of the vault’s creators, the reports are pretty overblown and everything’s fine. Well, the vault’s fine. The apocalypse is still ticking along nicely.

• A photographer documents heat-packing women and the guns they love, In 2016, Texas became the 45th state to allow the open carry of handguns. But many gun-toting women prefer to keep their weapons concealed for reasons including safety and comfort.
• Baking Soda Shortage Has Hospitals Frantic, Delaying Treatments and Surgeries, Amid a national shortage of a critical medicine, US hospitals are hoarding vials, delaying surgeries, and turning away patients.
• In Some Rural Counties, Hunger Is Rising, But Food Donations Aren’t, One in eight Americans — 42 million people — still struggles to get enough to eat. And while that number has been going down recently, hunger appears to be getting worse in some economically distressed areas, especially in rural communities.
• Tech Makes Dirty Water Drinkable – With a Little Help From Carbon Dioxide, In a new research project, investigators from Princeton University, Unilever, and the University of Hawaii describe a new method of making water drinkable — by counterintuitively mixing it with carbon dioxide, which is normally considered a pollutant.

Survivalism Jobs

If helping people prepare for the wilderness and the unknowable future is exciting for you, check out the Survivalism Jobs on the Exothermic job board.

This week, we’ve highlighted jobs from Gerber Legendary Blades. Founded in 1939 and based in Portland, Oregon, Gerber is an American brand and all products are designed and engineered there too. Gerber’s problem-solving, life-saving products are designed with the unique needs of specific activities in mind. To further those goals, they’re currently hiring a Product Engineer, a Supply Planner, a Test Engineer and a Demand Planner.

Exothermic is the leader in self-reliance brand marketing, but we like to share our wisdom with the world. Here are the top stories we’ve identified this week in our markets:

Survivalism

• What you need to know about the WannaCry Ransomware, The WannaCry ransomware struck across the globe in May 2017. Learn how this ransomware attack spread and how to protect your network from similar attacks.
• Deere beats across the board and raises its profit forecast, Revenue came in at $8.29 billion, topping the $7.27 billion that analysts were anticipating.
• Home Depot beats across the board and raises guidance, Home Depot Inc reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit and same-store sales, driven by increased customer traffic and more average spending at its stores amid a strong housing market.
• Bill Gates Has Seven Predictions for the Future, Bill Gates has been almost prophetic in his past predictions: his 1999 list was hauntingly accurate, foreseeing the advent of price comparison websites, smartphones, social media, and bots.
• Nuclear Experts Form International ‘Nuclear Crisis Group’, On Friday, an elite group of the world’s nuclear experts and advisers launched a Nuclear Crisis Group, to help manage the growing risk of nuclear conflict.
• Honeywell recalls fire alarm gateway that can’t detect fires, You had one job.
• Rising Seas Set To Double Coastal Flooding By 2050, Says Study, Coastal flooding is about to get dramatically more frequent around the world as sea levels rise from global warming, researchers said Thursday.

Survivalism Jobs

If helping people prepare for the wilderness and the unknowable future is exciting for you, check out the Survivalism Jobs on the Exothermic job board.

This week, we’ve highlighted jobs from Exxel Outdoors. Exxel Outdoors is one of the leading providers of outdoor recreation products – their brands include Kelty, Sierra Designs, Ultimate Direction, Slumberjack, Mountain Trails, Master Sportsman and more. They’re hiring a Collections Analyst and a Senior Product Manager for their Boulder, Colorado office and a new Director of Plant Operations for their Haleyville, Alabama facility.

Exothermic is the leader in self-reliance brand marketing, but we like to share our wisdom with the world. Here are the top stories we’ve identified this week in our markets:

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• The list: Will your Gander Mountain store be saved?, “The owner announced that 61 will stay open despite what the signs say. He wants to keep about 70 of them.”
• India’s Silicon Valley Is Dying of Thirst. Your City May Be Next, Bangalore has a problem: it is running out of water, fast. Cities all over the world, from those in the American West to nearly every major Indian metropolis, have been struggling with drought and water deficits in recent years. But Banga­lore is an extreme case.
• Cabela’s Sees Decline in Gun

  

  Sales Post-Trump Win, Cabela’s has stated that demand for firearms and ammunition weakened in the first three months of 2017, citing the election of President Donald Trump.

• Life Expectancy Can Vary By 20 Years Depending On Where You Live, New research documents significant disparities in the life spans of Americans depending on where they live. And those gaps appear to be widening, according to the research.
• Tesla just opened up orders for its Solar Roof — here’s how much it will cost you, “The typical homeowner can expect to pay $21.85 per square foot for Solar Roof and benefit from a beautiful new roof that also increases the value of their home.”
• Emergency Declared At Nuclear-Contaminated Site In Washington State, The Department of Energy has declared an emergency at a nuclear-contaminated site in Washington state, after soil caved in over a portion of a tunnel containing rail cars contaminated with nuclear waste.
• An App That Allows You To Identify Any Plant With A Picture, The new app Pl@ntNet allows users to snap a pic of a plant and identify it in a flash, as long as it’s one of the species currently cataloged in their ever-growing database.
• New NOAA tool shows how climate change will affect your neighborhood, To see what you have personally at stake, tinker around with Climate Explorer, an online tool developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to help community leaders, business owners, municipal planners, and residents understand how environmental conditions may alter local conditions over the next several decades.

Survivalism Jobs

If helping people prepare for the wilderness and the unknowable future is exciting for you, check out the Survivalism Jobs on the Exothermic job board.

This week, we’ve highlighted jobs from Oregon Freeze Dry Foods. OFD Foods provides fully prepared entrees with a range of packaging options in food and non-food categories – for example, they’re the makers of Mountain House and Easy Meal. They’re based in Albany, Oregon and they’re hiring a Senior Brand Manager, a Director of Food Safety and Quality Assurance, a Warehouse Coordinator and a Junior Engineer.

Exothermic is the leader in self-reliance brand marketing, but we like to share our wisdom with the world. Here are the top stories we’ve identified this week in our markets:

Survivalism

• NASA’s inflatable greenhouse could feed astronauts on Mars, One of the biggest problems we still have to solve when it comes to sending humans to live on the moon or Mars is food. To conjure up a possible solution to the issue, NASA scientists at the Kennedy Space Center are developing an inflatable cylindrical greenhouse for outer space.
• Tesla has delayed the rollout of its solar roof — here’s everything we know about the project so far, The company originally said it would begin selling its solar roof in April, but CEO Elon Musk said that two of the four shingle options wouldn’t be made available until early 2018.
• What’s Inside the Badass Backpack That’s Saving Lives in South Sudan, Humanitarian organizations providing food, water, and shelter have ceased operations in Sudan. But Doctors Without Borders—it goes by the initialism MSF, for the French Médecins Sans Frontières—retains teams at the Sudanese border and has 29 members traveling with the people on foot, each of them carrying a single, bookbag-sized backpack full of medical supplies. Here’s what in those bags.
• Dormant Diseases Frozen In the Ice Are Waking Up, “The theory is that, over 75 years ago, a reindeer infected with anthrax died and its frozen carcass became trapped under a layer of frozen soil, known as permafrost,” reports BBC. “There it stayed until a heatwave in the summer of 2016, when the permafrost thawed.”
• What Happens When You Get Shot and How to Survive It, If you’re afraid of being shot, you’re not alone, and your fears are, unfortunately, justified. Guns kill almost 100 people in America every single day.