Posts tagged mayans

It seems like everybody these days is talking about the earthquake in Japan, and with good reason. This was one of the largest earthquakes to be recorded in the area and its impact has been anything but minor. Not only was there damage from the initial seismic disturbance, but the following tsunami impacted coastal regions [...]

There is a lot of speculation these days about the possibility of a global cataclysm in the next few years. Most of this attention is based on the Mayan calendar. December 21, 2012 is the supposed end of the Mayan long form calendar, but it is only the end of one epoch, not the end [...]

I was quite distressed last year about the BP oil spill. I honestly had a hard time bringing myself to write about it at the time. But after months, they managed to get the temporary cap in place, and suddenly the story was dead. Nobody wanted to talk about the underwater oil plume, or the [...]