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I could spend months detailing my differences with John Derbyshire regarding American race relations. However, one of his observations about politics and race is uncomfortably true.
The blockbuster problem in The Avengers is the writers' desire to turn a nuclear weapon into a golden bullet that can save the day -- even if this bomb is more likely to ruin it.
When people ask me if world is going to end in 2012, the fear of dying is very visible in their eyes. Two issues are going on here: Fear and the panic about death. Let's touch both the issues one by one.
Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. This week, I had original...
From all of my years of working with and documenting shamanic cultures and traditions, I have not noticed anything that would lead me to believe that any doomsday prophecy will be fulfilled.
The newest episode of my short radio series The Indie on Demand Movie Review takes a look at 4:44 Last Day on Earth.
Is apocalypse merely a fantasy that will never happen? Like self-making beds, or carefree hair? Of course not -- there will be an end to life on Earth.
Whether the ancient Mayans intended it or not, the end of their calendar coincides with a profound turning point in human civilization.
But this is our year. I can feel it. We'll sojourn into the unexplored realms of substance and coherent logic. We'll even ditch such phrases as "evangelical voting block."
Now that it's actually 2012, the year in which those fictional events supposedly were to have taken place, you may be wondering: Is the Mayan calendar a real thing? Were we warned? Is 2012 the end of the world?
The idea of the apocalypse offers the promise that our chaotic times will eventually prove to have some kind of redemptive meaning -- or that, according to ancient cultures, it was all somehow inevitable, anyhow.
With the U.S. economy in shambles, the Euro worth about as much as the Lego, a new strain of super-contagious swine flu, the Arab world in upheaval, K...
By:Noah Nelson Photo Credit: Image: NASA/Public Domain Earth: it was fun while it lasted. Today is the beginning of the final countdown. We've g...
Think back 50 weeks. Do you remember how 2011 began? Do you remember the epic absurdity that kick-started a year described by nearly everyone as one of the most significant spans in recent memory? That's right: Birds fell straight from the sky.
Having listed the most overrated things about 2010 and the entire previous decade, it's now time to look back on the vintage year of 2011 - a year whe...
