From the folks at NPR: It is Dec. 20, 2012 — and citizens of
Earth are panicking, consumed by the idea that the world will end Friday,
something they say was predicted by Mayan astronomers. Of course, most people
are not panicking, and Maya expert David Stuart says no one should. The
calendar, he says, has plenty of room to go.
In an interview airing on Thursday's Morning Edition, David
Greene asks archaeologist Stuart, who helped translate influential ancient
Mayan hieroglyphs in 1996, if he thinks the world will end on Dec. 21.
"Absolutely not," is Stuart's answer, dashing the
hopes of students hoping for a three-day weekend, and any consumers who maxed
out their credit cards in the belief that all history — not just their credit
history — would come to an end….
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