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The so-called Mayan apocalypse is just the latest in a long line of doomsday predictions
December 19, 2012 |
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The agency's Near-Earth Objects Program head points out many fallacies, including the claim that an imaginary planet will collide with Earth in December. Thousands of astronomers have not seen this
Deep down, for various reasons, there’s something appealing--at least to some of us--about the end of the world
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Our pattern-seeking brains and desire to be special help explain our fears of the apocalypse
A historian specializing in Mesoamerica unpacks the source of the claims that the Maya foretold doom in December 2012
The ninth-century wall paintings predate existing Mayan astronomical records by hundreds of years
The authors of a recent report concerning a near-Earth asteroid impact and our preparedness disagreed on whether it was reasonable and prudent to compare NEO fatalities with those from climate change
As long as opportunities and excuses for nuclear aggression persist, the world will never be safe from annihilation
The Fukushima nuclear disaster and interest in nuclear power from Turkey, Indonesia and the UAE raised scientists' concern about the threat of humanity's destruction
Although there is an urban legend that the world will end this year based on a misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar, some researchers think a 40-year-old computer program that predicts a collapse of socioeconomic order and massive drop in human population in this century may be on target
In this episode, journalist Alan Weisman discusses his new book "The World Without Us," a massive thought experiment about the aftermath of humanity's sudden disappearance
At the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Stony Brook University's Robert Crease talked about how a 1999 article in Scientific American on Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and a future Nobel laureate got a few people thinking the planet was in jeopardy. Steve Mirsky reports
A directory of "The End" articles from the September 2010 issue plus Web exclusives
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