Articles tagged "2012"

Looking back on the year, in GIFs.

He won't have enough room for everyone. But for a fee, he might have room for you.

"My dear remaining fellow Australians, the end of the world is coming."

Yeah, according to the latest study from the Wesleyan Media Project, one million political ads have now aired across the United States in this election cycle alone.

If there’s a single factor that reliably sparks social unrest, it’s food becoming too scarce or too expensive.

New York’s 2012 Olympic Games kicked off with a series of runners hoisting the flaming torch high above their heads, pursued by excited New Yorkers, surrounded by spectators and a police escort with horses, limned by hot-dog vendors and honking cabs…

Newly uncovered hieroglyphs support the idea that the Mayans had a recycling calendar, rather than an apocalyptic one.

Now that SXSW is over for me, let me share some tips for staying sane while you're lost in Austin's annual thicket of obscurity. You see, I've been to SXSW two years in a row now, which by media industry standards means I've knocked about 15 years of…

The collapse of the Mayan empire has already caused plenty of consternation for scientists and average Joes alike, and we haven't even made it a quarter of the way through 2012 yet. But here's something to add a little more fuel to the fire: A new st…

Last weekend, a pile of famous minds and talking heads gathered at the Cooper Union for the "World in 2012" summit hosted by the Economist, and one of the panels, naturally, was all about technology. Here is a 15 minute clip from that discussion, fea…

An amusing video editing gig b-side and some YouTube success has led to a new, very timely kind of political cartoon, one that makes some sense out of the babel of the political carnival by giving politicians words that aren't exactly theirs. That's

Probably the largest collection of conspiracy theories on the internet—which is saying something—can be found on the 2012 Forum, an old-fashioned message board full of people who are convinced that something, they’re not sure what, is going to happen…

For writer Iain Sinclair and the other quarter-million locals of Hackney, east London, there is a very good reason to be concerned about the year 2012, and it's already rocking the neighborhood: the Olympic Games. His newest book, _Ghost Milk_, is…

Is our species's error here actually unhinged hysteria? As long as it's still fissioning and belching, Fukushima will be an acute crisis in anyone's book. As at Chernobyl, some plant workers will probably die from their exposure, and probably rushed

A mere 3.9 miles in circumference, the Tevatron, in Illinois, is slated to be closed this September, putting the full pressure of human cosmology on LHC's broad shoulders. Dun Dun Duuuuuuuun.