Now There’s an Armageddon-Proof Library to Go With Norway’s Doomsday Seed Bank

(via Popular Mechanics)Way up north in Norway, the Svalbard Global Seed Bank is a repository for the world’s most important crop seeds, stored there in case of worldwide catastrophe. A few days ago, we saw the opening of the World Arctic Archive, set up in an abandoned mineshaft. What the seed bank does for plants, this library hopes to do for information.