Links in “Mayan Calendar”

• Farmers, mark your calendars
  08 Feb 2012 Ag Week - You may have heard that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, and that it might be the end of the world. Just for your information, the Mayan calendar ends like ours ends, on Dec. 31. As the song goes, “don’t worry, be happy.”
• VIDEO: Maya Mysteries - Secret of Tulum
• Celebrating Year of the Maya with tour of Latin America's ruins
  17 Jan 2012 - CNN: SLIDESHOW The Global Heritage Fund has named 2012 "The Year of the Maya," -- the Maya calendar points to December 2012 as the dawn of a new age.
• VIDEO: One Mayan prophecy of December 21, 2012 - 1 of 7
• It's the end of the world. Or not.
  14 Jan 2012 - Ventura County Star: Some believe the end of the Mayan "long count" calendar on Dec. 21 means doomsday. The Maya say that it's not the end of the world but rather the beginning of a new cycle, and others say there's nothing to worry about.
• RADIO: Will the World End in 2012?
  2 Jan 2012 - BBC: The ancient Mayans had two calendars; the solar calendar of the agricultural year and a lunar calendar on which they based their religious festivals. The two don't coincide very often.
• 2012: Here Comes the Apocalpyse - Again
  2 Jan 2012 - Huffington Post: If there's one thing that we can bank on in this New Year (and the solvency of banks isn't one of them), it's that we'll be subjected to a flood of stories speculating on whether Dec. 21, 2012 will bring about the end of the world.
• End of the world as we know it
  newsreview.com: Over the past year or two, my husband and I have bumped into people we haven’t seen or heard from in years or even decades (surprise e-mails from past co-workers or passing each other in the grocery store).
• Pseudoscience Rampant in 2012 Predictions
  14 Nov 2009 - Kansas Examiner: The impending arrival in theaters of Sony Pictures’ movie 2012 will no doubt usher in a new flood of media stories dealing with end-of-the-world prophecies.
• Reading between the lines of the Maya calendar
  13 Nov 2009 - LA Times: Indigenous spiritual guides see a lesson for humanity in the din over 2012.
• 2012 End of the World? NASA Says, No
  12 Nov 2009: Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation.
• End of days? Maya calendar notes galactic event in 2012
  19 Sep 2009 - Longmont Times: Call Karen Majorowski the Calendar Girl.
• Mayan Calendar Spurs End-Of-The-World Debate
  29 Jul 2009 - NPR: For those people making long-term plans, note this: The end of the world as we know it will be on Dec. 21, 2012
• The Mystery of 2012?
  09 Jan 2009 - UK's Daily Mail: Not surprisingly, the Mayan-inspired mania surrounded 12/21/12 is more money-grubbing than actual science.
• Times Call: End of days? Maya calendar notes galactic event in 2012
• End of the world as we know it
  04 Sep 2008 - newsreview.com: Over the past year or two, my husband and I have bumped into people we haven’t seen or heard from in years or even decades (surprise e-mails from past co-workers or passing each other in the grocery store).
• Girl Tlak Plans Epic 24-Hour Final Show on Mayan Apocalypse
  14 Aug 2008 - pastemagazine.com: In 1839, an American writer and explorer named John Lloyd Stephens was sent to Central America to serve as Special Ambassador.
• End is near (if you believe this)
  10 Aug 2008 - News Observer: The morning after the latest earthquake in Los Angeles, I received an e-mail from a reader, a fellow I deem fairly intelligent, well read and "level headed."
• Thousands Expect Apocalypse in 2012
  06 Jul 2008 - AOL News: Survival groups around the world are gearing up and counting down to a mysterious date that has been anticipated for thousands of years: Dec. 21, 2012.
• Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
  16 Oct 2006: The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating, vigesimal (base-20) calendar used by several Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya

• BOOK: Moon Maya 2012
  A Guide to Celebrations in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras
• If calendars change, end of world can't come too soon
  17 Jan 2012 - Sacramento Bee: The deal is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar, which began in 3114 B.C., is set to "run out" after 5,126 years, meaning this year, specifically on Dec. 21.
• VIDEO: Doomsday 2012: The End of Days - Mayans 3 of 7
• VIDEO: Mayan Doomsday Prophecy 2012
• Our culture is obsessed by apocalypse
  4 Jan 2012 - Vancouver Sun: From the reams that have been written about 2012, it is clear we are unhappy with the world we have created and are looking for a 'do-over'
• RADIO: 2012: A year of doom
  2 Jan 2012 - BBC: The 'apocalyptic' ending of the Mayan calendar in December is one notable example of doom predicted for 2012.
• Mexico Mayan Region Launches Apocalypse Countdown
  20 Dec 2011 - Salon: Seize the day. Only a year is left before Dec. 21, 2012, when some believe the Maya predicted the end of the world.
• THEORY: The End of the Maya Calendar Cycle
  The Maya Long Count calendar comes to the end of a 5,126 year cycle soon—possibly on December 21, 2012.
• Predictions vary for 2012, last year in Mayan calendar cycle
  14 Nov 2009 - Chicago Tribune: The madness and mayhem portrayed in previews of the film "2012" bear no resemblance to the prophecies that Myriam "Shuni" Giron believes will come to pass in three years.
• Nibiru and Doomsday 2012: Questions and Answers
• Top 10 Reasons Why the World Won't End in 2012
  4 Nov 2009 - Discovery: Ray Villard takes on some of the more popular doomsday theories, debunking each in turn.
• Radio: Mayan Calendar Spurs End-Of-The-World Debate
  29 Jul 2009 - NPR: For those people making long-term plans, note this: The end of the world as we know it will be on Dec. 21, 2012 — at least, that's if you believe the Mayan calendar.
• 2012: A Y2K for the New Age
  18 May 2009 - Newsweek: Scholars rarely love popularizers, and nowhere is this enmity more evident than in the battle over 2012—a date which, depending on your view, will coincide with the end of the world, the transformation of global consciousness, the end of the Mayan calendar,
• Will the world end in 2012?
  25 Oct 2008 - Jamaican Observer: According to the culture of ancient Maya, part of what scholars call Mesoamerica, astronomy predicts some major cosmic developments for December 21, 2012,
• Apocalypse Predictions Unfounded
  18 Sep 2008 - The North Wind: Gas prices are rising, the war in Iraq is still raging, and economy is crashing, yet the world is not coming to an end. So, why is it that many people think we're living in the "end of times"?
• The world will end in 2012, say experts
  14 Aug 2008 - Merinews.com: SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS from around the world are predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well come to an end. Some are saying it’ll be humans that would set it off.
• MTV: Girl Talk Plans Apocalyptic 'Final' Show ... For December 21, 2012
  11 Aug 2008 - MTV: Girl Talk has already created a bit of post-millennial tension with his new album, Feed the Animals, and now he's looking to take things to the next level: post-apocalyptic.
• Will the World End in 2012?
  23 Jul 2008 - ABC News: Two years ago, Patrick Geryl, then 51, quit his job as a laboratory worker for a French oil company. He'd saved up just enough money to last him until December 2012.
• Author L.A. Panchuk Discovers More Than the Mayan Calendar:
  24 Sep 2007 - PRWEB: End of the World Date, or Something Else?

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