The movie 2012 is actually coming out in 2009, but you get the point. The film is based on the idea that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 and so, naturally, the world will end.
 

According to the movie, the end of the world seems to come not from just one natural disaster, but rather a whole bunch of natural disasters combined! As such the chara...

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The Hadron Collider is the largest machine ever built and tomorrow, it's being turned on. Buried below Switzerland, manned by a team of University of Sydney scientists, the 27-km (yes, kilometer), $9 billion dollar ring was built for the sole purpose of smashing things together. Not just anything however, subatomic particles and speeds so high a...

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Experts are holding a four-day conference this week on global catastrophic risks. To clarify the purpose of the event, these "experts" are discussing preventative measures to enhance the quality of human life, while deterring the end of it. The conference covers everything from super intelligent machines, a la I, Robot, to enhanced weaponry. In ...

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Bwahaha, and you thought you knew who I was....

So Facebook has debuted their new little chat feature, which is surprisingly not as infuriating as their other latest additions (news feed, applications) probably because they completely jacked the idea from Google (if you don't know what Gchat is you live under a rock in some crevasse in the oce

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