Mayan Calendar Predictions vs. Miami Reality

"It turns out that the Mayan calendar was true." Scientists scoffed. But in South Florida, a place so apocalyptic we see asteroid impact craters in our morning cortadito, Judgment Day has never seemed so real. As 2012 unfolded, the Mayan hieroglyphics

If in the run-up to Dec 21, media had a field day reporting the possible apocalyptic scenarios should the Mayan prediction come to pass; the failure of the forecast, in turn, is a field day for netizens to poke fun at the event in the form of jokes and

There were numerous articles about the 5,125-year-old Mayan calendar, the last day of which was Friday, Dec. 21. To some, this date also meant the end of time. Period. People the world over were stocking up on supplies in preparation for a potential

Mayans never predicted an Apocalypse. This is just when they got lazy with their record keeping and stopped updating the long-form version of their 5,172-year calendar. Just as our calendar starts the year fresh by repeating

If you believed, however, that the end of the Mayan calendar's 13th baktun would indeed signify the end of the world, you might not want to breath easy just yet. Matching up modern calendars with Mayan predictions is tricky, German researcher Nikoali