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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• Climate Change Could Cause Significant Food Supply & Economic Problems Due To “Chokepoints,” Report Warns, Roughly 25% of all of the food currently eaten in the world is traded on international markets. This situation is especially true of staple foods such as wheat, maize, rice, and soybeans. Owing to this reality, and the accompanying reliance on a relatively small number of important deepwater seaports, roads, and straits — so-called “choke points” — climate change threatens to greatly disrupt international food supply chains in coming years.
• Lyme Disease Is Spreading, And It’s Partly This Mouse’s Fault, As tick-
• borne diseases become increasingly common in the U.S., scientists are scrutinizing these external parasites’ relationship with their hosts with the goal of figuring out how to fight the spread of Lyme.
• How farmers are fighting ticks with feathery fowl, Speaking of ticks –

  

  chickens and guineas are “tick-eating machines,” according to many poultry enthusiasts.

• WHO warns of imminent spread of untreatable superbug gonorrhoea, At least three people worldwide are infected with totally untreatable “superbug” strains of gonorrhoea which they are likely to be spreading to others through sex.
• Popular heartburn drugs linked to higher death risk, Risk increases the longer the drugs are used.
• Researchers find sunscreen becomes toxic when exposed to chlorine, New research reveals that sunscreen becomes toxic when exposed to chlorine, sometimes resulting in kidney and liver dysfunctions, as well as nervous system disorders.
• To Prepare For Mars Settlement, Simulated Missions Explore Utah’s Desert, For 16 years, this facility surrounded by red hills, deep canyons and very few signs of life has been a kind of testing ground for learning what life on the Red Planet might be like.
• Why Is There So Much Modern Architecture In The NRA’s New Ad?, For decades, authoritarian regimes have waged war on modern architecture and the philosophy it embodies. A new ad proves it’s still a target.

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This week, we’ve highlighted jobs from Spyderco. Spyderco, based in Golden, Colorado, is a cutlery company that produces knives and knife sharpeners. Spyderco pioneered many features that are now common in folding knives, including the pocket clip, serrations, and the opening hole. They’re hiring a Retail Sales Associate and a Sales Representative.

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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 Sturm Ruger & Co., Inc., also known just as Ruger. Ruger is a highly successful, high-end manufacturer of sporting rifles, shotguns and handguns. They’re currently hiring a Design Engineer and a Maintenance Specialist for their Prescott, Arizona location. 

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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• In a sign of the times, Girl Scouts can now earn a cybersecurity badge, According to Girl Scouts CEO Sylvia Acevedo, the decision to add a cybersecurity badge was largely driven by the troops themselves. The executive told CNN that the Scouts were surveyed to determine which skills they were most interested in mastering.
• Alibaba’s Jack Ma – New technology ‘may cause the Third World War‘, “The first technology revolution caused World War I,” Ma told CNBC. “The second technology revolution caused World War II. This is the third technology revolution.”
• AT&T offers state governments its emergency LTE network, Local governments now have half a year to opt in or out of FirstNet’s and AT&T’s offerings.
• As urban agriculture gains followers in Idaho and beyond, some cities loosen codes, “When Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the U.S., is selling little chicken coops and chicken feed, that shows (urban homesteading) is a long-lasting trend,” said Gretchen Anderson of Eagle, a leader in the urban homesteading movement.
• Arizona so hot weather map almost runs out of colors, Arizona had an extreme heat wave taking place this week. The high temperature map nearly ran out of colors to depict it.
• Farmers Take Out Millions In Loans To Raise Chickens For Big-Box Retailers, Tim Mueller has raised corn and soybeans on 530 acres near Columbus, Neb., for decades, but now he is planning to take a huge gamble.
• Researchers can now desalinate seawater with the power of the Sun, A team of researchers from Rice University have developed a new technique that not only drastically reduces the amount of energy needed but can decouple the process from the power grid altogether.
• The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies is Spreading, One bite from the lone star tick—which gets its name from the Texas-shaped splash of white on its back—is enough to reprogram your immune system to forever reject even the smallest nibble of perfectly crisped bacon.
• Death pools can bring financial security for the long-lived, Modern-day enthusiasts hope to revive an ancient financial instrument.

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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 Kinsey’s, one of the main distributors for the outdoor hunting industry in the US. Founded in 1952, their headquarters are located in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. They’re currently hiring a Consumer Brands Supply-Chain Manager and an Internal Sales Representative.

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 Hunger Games Helped a 12-Year-Old Girl Become a Real-Life Hero, A 12-year-old Massachusetts girl helped an injured friend over the weekend thanks to quick thinking—and a makeshift tourniquet she whipped up using a technique she read about in The Hunger Games.

  

• Tesla Model X the First SUV Ever To Achieve 5-Star Crash Rating in Every Category, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has awarded the 2017 Tesla Model X five-star crash safety ratings in every category.
• Cyber Firms Warn “Industroyer” Malware Could Knock Out Power Grids, Known by the names Industroyer and Crashoverride, two cyber security companies warned that it could be repurposed with little effort by other groups intent on causing further havoc around the world targeting not only power supply operations, but also water and gas systems, and transportation networks.
• Multi-million dollar upgrade planned to secure ‘failsafe’ Arctic seed vault, Improvements aim to ensure the vault’s role as an impregnable deep freeze for the world’s most precious food seeds after a recent flooding by melting permafrost.

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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 Recreational Equipment, Inc., commonly known as REI. REI is organized as a consumers’ co-operative. They sell sporting goods, camping gear, travel equipment, and clothing. Right now, they’re hiring a Supply Operations Analyst, a Senior User Experience Designer and a Front End Software Engineer for their headquarters in Kent, Washington.

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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• Inside The Frozen Vaults That Archive The World’s Plant Species, Photographer Dornith Doherty documents the international institutions that are protecting the future of our ecosystem from our own destruction.
• Artificial intelligence can now predict how much time people have left to live with high accuracy, Courtesy reddit – “Basically what they’re saying is that they can determine an individual’s quality of health to a high degree of accuracy using CT scans for data alone, rather than looking at genetic and environmental risk factors. These days we mostly look at genetic makeup and environmental influences for estimating longevity. But, since it is difficult to collect the right data and parse through the complicated interactions of these factors, this new method might prove to be a better alternative.”

  

• Commuting By Foot: Big Sur Residents Struggle With Life After Mudslide, Most mornings and afternoons, a newly built footpath that plunges through a grove of towering redwoods is clogged with workers and schoolchildren. That hiking trail is a lifeline.
• This Map Will Remind You Why You Can’t Always Trust Your Tap Water, The most comprehensive resource to date on chemical contamination shows that the taps of 15 million Americans pour out unsafe water.
• World’s First battery-Free Pacemaker Gets Its Power From Microwaves, Researchers at Rice University and the Texas Heart Institute have created the internal components for a battery-free pacemaker, designed to be inserted directly into the heart and free of wires.
• Monitoring your blood pressure? Careful, 70% of home devices may be inaccurate, The error range is enough to sway decisions about taking or stopping medication.
• Precious metals, Some survivalism humor from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal 🙂

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 The North Face, one of the biggest outdoors companies in the US. They specialize in outerwear, fleece, coats, shirts, footwear, and equipment such as backpacks, tents, and sleeping bags. You’ve probably heard of ’em. They’re hiring an Apparel Designer, a Product Director, an Assistant Photography & Video Producer and an Ecommerce Content Manager in their Alameda, CA headquarters as well as a Customer Service Representative in Appleton, WI.

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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• Disaster Agency To Weather Hurricane Season With No Leader, Proposed Cuts, Forecasters say the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which begins Thursday, could bring “above-normal” storm activity. Residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are making sure they have supplies and plans in place if a storm hits.
• Two Different Studies Find Thousands of Bugs In Pacemakers, Insulin Pumps and Other Medical Devices, “One study solely on pacemakers found more than 8,000 known vulnerabilities in code inside the cardiac devices,” reports BBC. “The other study of the broader device market found only 17% of manufacturers had taken steps to secure gadgets.”
• Lyme Isn’t the Only Disease Ticks Are Spreading This Summer, A model

  

  that can incorporate all the parameters for tick population sizes could actually tell you something useful about disease risk. And that’s exactly what Goudarz Molaei is building right now.

• A third of the nation’s honeybee colonies died last year. Why you should care, One in every three bites of food, van Engelsdorp said, is directly or indirectly pollinated by honeybees, who pollinate about $15 billion worth of U.S. crops each year.
• The Rise of Liberal Preppers – Welcome to the Party!, We have lots of the same types of worries on the other side here, but we just call ourselves preppers.
• Robots Wielding Water Knives Are the Future of Farming, Garcia and the other workers here didn’t lose their jobs to a robot—they work in tandem with one. And just as well, because California farms are facing a serious labor shortage of perhaps 20 percent.
• Handshake-Free Zones Target Spread Of Germs In The Hospital, Hospital-acquired infections are a serious and potentially life-threatening problem. On any given day, 1 in 25 hospital patients suffers from at least one infection acquired while they are in the hospital.
• The Future of Your City Is Absolutely Terrifying, According to Science Fiction, Redfin, a real estate company, had some fun crunching numbers and catastrophes from 44 genre movies to answer the question: if film plots came true, what are we in for in America’s biggest cities?