Miscellaneous Links

[helwen]

A couple from an online acquaintance:

Candy Canes Fight Germs is about the various properties of Peppermint.

Mistletoe Fights Cancer is about Mistletoe (European, not American)

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The year 2012 comes up in conversations now and then, and of course the History Channel is having some fun with it next weekend, plus there is a disaster film coming out in July 2009 I believe.

Here's the Wikipedia Entry on 2012. They list all sorts of things that are happening in 2012. Did you know that the location for the Superbowl has already been determined? I don't know anything about football, but I'm mildly impressed that they're so organized.

Anyway, lots of stuff happening in 2012 - elections, various competitions, astronomical events of interest, all the Olympics, and more. For those interested in the Mayan calendar, there's a link or two pertaining to that as well.

I'm a little boggled at how many apocalyptic songs have been written, specifically about 2012...

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Decided to add the Wikipedia entry on Mesoamerican (Mayan) Long Count Calendar for being able to check that out without having to look through the whole 2012 entry. Interesting to read about Mayan references to dates beyond 2012.

Comments

[harpnfiddle.livejournal.com]

Cool

[bronx-baroness.livejournal.com]

Yeah that is the one thing that most folks miss entirely. Everyone thinks that time stops at 2012 for the Mayan Calendar. Well it does at least calendar wise, but not "things that might happen" wise. It's just the end of a cycle-yes a pretty big cycle, but like with everything else with the Mayan Calendar, it starts up again. They just didn't bother to do the calculations.

[hyperbard.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I've never thought the world was just going to end at 2012 -- I always figured it would be one of those "end of the world as we know it" businesses. Considering the way people have gone on throughout history about how the world would end by such and such a date, for all we know it's stopped and started numerous times.

[bronx-baroness.livejournal.com]

Hey for all we know the poles may just do a "flip-flop" or maybe Yellowstone will have a smallish eruption and rearrange global weather on a less catastrophic scale.

[hyperbard.livejournal.com]

Since global weather is rearranging itself already, I'd say that's a fair bet. Though considering how slowly the old ice ages and warming periods went, it wouldn't necessarily take only a few years... but who knows with other stuff? *G*Me being me, I've wondered whether that's the date of First Contact.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's too bad we really don't have all the answers on what the climate's going to do, and how quickly. All we can do is try to be adaptable.

First Contact... as in first Public contact, right? ;)

[hyperbard.livejournal.com]

*G*

[helwen.livejournal.com]

You caught the latest blurb on Yellowstone, eh? Let's hope it does stay quiet, because that one's a super volcano. I'm not sure it can have a "smallish eruption" :(

Me, I'm just paying my debts down and keeping my head down too. And learning new stuff, which I'd be doing anyway.

[hyperbard.livejournal.com]

*G*So being a peppermint addict like me is a good thing...

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Yup! :)