If there is only one show you hear about the end of the world, let it be this one. Recorded before a live audience at the Computer History Museum on October 27th, 2012, this two-part special broadcast of Big Picture Science separates fact from fiction in doomsday prediction. In this episode: Maya prophesy for December 21, 2012 … asteroid impact and cosmic threats …. and alien invasion.
Presented as part of the Bay Area Science Festival.
Find out more about our guests and their work.
Guests:

Guy P. Harrison – Science writer and author of 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
Andrew Fraknoi – Chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California