It Ain't Over 'til it's Over

I hate to break it to you, but you won't be able to put off working on that next manuscript because of the Mayan calendar anymore:

A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World" (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and overhyped 2012 apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events.

I don't know what the History Channel is going to do, though...just when they thought they had linked 2012 to Nostradamus and the bible code...