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News Briefs 21-12-2012

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”

  • In case of emergency, break glass.
  • Tracing the origins of the Mayan Calendar.
  • Star Wars goes Mayan.
  • Tau Ceti could boast two habitable planets.
  • Hysteria over Mayan calendar hits overdrive.
  • Everest in epic detail.
  • Egyptian Pharoah execution documented.
  • NASA posts post-Mayan doomsday video early to quell social media fears.
  • Doomsday is still billions of years away.
  • Origins of Consciousness, with Graham Hancock.
  • French village looks past ‘Judgment Day’… to Christmas.
  • Taking the teeth out of 12.21.12…
  • How the brain organizes everything.
  • Environmental concerns of ancient Maya still relevant today.
  • When doomsday didn’t come: A history…
  • Orangutans take to tools.
  • Reigning in Rudolph’s red nose…
  • Life under Antarctic ice?
  • Doswers as government employees?
  • Aquifers of the future?
  • Student scientists purify H2O for the masses.
  • Wallace’s world map gets modern day facelift.
  • Experiment yields new magnetic behavior.
  • Kickstarter redefines the game of fundraising.
  • National Film Registry recognizes classic science fiction in 2012.
  • Outer asteroid belt meteorite possibly unearthed.
  • Whale thought extinct was living fossil.
  • Interior of Mercury may be hollow.
  • Tuning in to the first Christmas.
  • Anti-aging formula, courtesy of Hong Kong.
  • Northern California widens marine sanctuaries.
  • Deconstructing the history of the human hand.
  • Images of the true Mayan apocalypse…
  • Failsafe software… Will forced restarts go the way of the dodo?
  • Extinct elephant lived longer than previously believed.
  • Eating with lasers.
  • Lack of helium… flattens balloons sales.
  • Flapping Jurassic wings for the first time in 165 million years.
  • In the shadow of Saturn.
  • Nature under the microscope.
  • Evidence of the pending robo-pocalypse…

Sincere thanks to all friends and fans of TDG as well as endless props to GT, Kat, Perceval, Jameske, Gillian, RPJ, RMG and REM for another stellar year. Here’s to a brilliant new baktun!

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“What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.”

William Wordsworth

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