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Will the world really end in 2012?

This short blog post on Curiosity.com by Jessika Toothman begins with:
There has been a lot of hype surrounding Dec. 21, 2012. Doomsayers and movie producers have increasingly set their sights on this calendar crux as the day the world will end. READ MORE >>>
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Will cockroaches survive?

cockroachCan cockroaches really survive a nuclear blast? The Discovery Channel takes a look at this myth and deems it plausible.

To test whether this doomsday scenario has any legs, the MythBusters subjected German cockroaches to three levels of radioactive metal cobalt 60.

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A doomsday asteroid?

With thousands of asteroids, comets and other near-Earth object buzzing by our planet, Jorge Ribas finds out how we can avoid the same fate as the dinosaurs.

Different ways to keep an asteroid from hitting the earth are discussed in this Discovery Channel News piece.

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