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December 26, 2012

Galileo Meets the Mayan Apocalypse

Mollie Hemingway, Get Religion

Far and away my favorite headline of Friday was the one that ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Experts almost certain world not ending today

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TAGGED: End of the World, Apocalypse, Mayan Calendar

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