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Dear World: You’re Not Going To End On December 21. Sincerely, Science.

So it turns out the “Mayan Apocalypse” is really just the Mesoamerican equivalent of Y2K: a great excuse to throw a party but nothing worth dramatically quitting your job or blowing off a term paper over.

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Mansur Gidfar

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