Big Picture Science – Doomsday Live: The Myth of the Maya part 1

by Gary Niederhoff on November 26, 2012

Part 2 of Doomsday Live, Part I, featuring Guy Harrison, science writer and author of 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True, and Andrew Fraknoi, Chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, discussing the myth that the end of the Mayan long count calendar portends the end of the world on December 21, 2012.
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