Whew. Mere months before the world was apparently going to end per the Mayan calendar's December 2012 doomsday date, an even more ancient version of the calendar has been discovered in Guatemala and features dates stretching thousands years into the future.
Researchers found the calendar in a mural in an ancient city in the Guatemalan rain forest and estimate that it was painted in approximately 800 A.D.
"The Mayan calendar is going to keep going for billions, trillions, octillions of years into the future," archaeologist David Stuart of the University of Texas tells the Christian Science Monitor. "Numbers we can't even wrap our heads around."
Stuart adds that researchers never believed in the doomsday predictions anyway, saying that experts believe that the calendar doesn't end in December, but merely starts a new cycle, or "baktun."...
Researchers found the calendar in a mural in an ancient city in the Guatemalan rain forest and estimate that it was painted in approximately 800 A.D.
"The Mayan calendar is going to keep going for billions, trillions, octillions of years into the future," archaeologist David Stuart of the University of Texas tells the Christian Science Monitor. "Numbers we can't even wrap our heads around."
Stuart adds that researchers never believed in the doomsday predictions anyway, saying that experts believe that the calendar doesn't end in December, but merely starts a new cycle, or "baktun."...
- 5/11/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Photograph by Robert Maxwell
Photograph by Sasha Nialla
Coca-Cola bet that an unknown Somali rapper could support its biggest marketing campaign ever. The company was right, and it may have launched a new star. Or not.
Soccer Player, Shark: Coke's Seugé, left, and A&M/Octone's Diener crafted a deal that accelerated K'Naan's career by "a year and a half," says Diener. | Photographs by David Stuart (Seugé), Danny Clinch (Diener)
Infographic: K'Naan's World Tour
Somalia. Spring 1989. On a dusty street in a Mogadishu district known as Wardhiigleey (Somali for "river of blood"), three 10-year-old boys, known in the neighborhood as K'naan the Skinny, Shorty, and La'ib, are washing wooden tablets. Each tablet, or loh, is used for note taking at school; pupils write their alphabets and math equations, as well as the phrases they are learning from the Qu'ran, in ink on these tablets. At the end of the day,...
Photograph by Sasha Nialla
Coca-Cola bet that an unknown Somali rapper could support its biggest marketing campaign ever. The company was right, and it may have launched a new star. Or not.
Soccer Player, Shark: Coke's Seugé, left, and A&M/Octone's Diener crafted a deal that accelerated K'Naan's career by "a year and a half," says Diener. | Photographs by David Stuart (Seugé), Danny Clinch (Diener)
Infographic: K'Naan's World Tour
Somalia. Spring 1989. On a dusty street in a Mogadishu district known as Wardhiigleey (Somali for "river of blood"), three 10-year-old boys, known in the neighborhood as K'naan the Skinny, Shorty, and La'ib, are washing wooden tablets. Each tablet, or loh, is used for note taking at school; pupils write their alphabets and math equations, as well as the phrases they are learning from the Qu'ran, in ink on these tablets. At the end of the day,...
- 10/19/2010
- by Rick Tetzeli
- Fast Company
Photograph by David Stuart
Photograph by David Stuart
The cookbook author and Food Network star shows off the gadgets in his kitchen that make for some good eats.
Good Eats, the only instructional cooking show on prime time, lures more than 20 million viewers a month to the Food Network, thanks to its quirky humor, geeky insights, and Diy ethos. So it's no surprise that star Alton Brown, who also writes and directs each episode, brings those same traits to his James Beard Foundation Award -- winning cookbooks. Ahead of the debut of his latest, Good Eats 2: The Middle Years, we ask the Atlanta native to walk us through his kitchen and tell us about some of his favorite devices. If you're expecting a place packed with culinary paraphernalia, you'll be disappointed. "I use less and less stuff each year," says Brown. "My wife and I went to see the...
Photograph by David Stuart
The cookbook author and Food Network star shows off the gadgets in his kitchen that make for some good eats.
Good Eats, the only instructional cooking show on prime time, lures more than 20 million viewers a month to the Food Network, thanks to its quirky humor, geeky insights, and Diy ethos. So it's no surprise that star Alton Brown, who also writes and directs each episode, brings those same traits to his James Beard Foundation Award -- winning cookbooks. Ahead of the debut of his latest, Good Eats 2: The Middle Years, we ask the Atlanta native to walk us through his kitchen and tell us about some of his favorite devices. If you're expecting a place packed with culinary paraphernalia, you'll be disappointed. "I use less and less stuff each year," says Brown. "My wife and I went to see the...
- 9/15/2010
- by Kate Rockwood
- Fast Company
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