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The Mayans living there say it isn’t real–now Mexico’s archaeology institute is checking out that December 21st doomsday prediction. They basically deny it, but they HAVE admitted that a SECOND reference to that date has been found on a carved stone fragment at a ruined Mayan site.

Earlier, most experts knew of only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, on a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. The second apparent reference to the date has been found at the nearby Comalcalco ruins.

Both inscriptions–the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick–were probably carved about 1,300 years ago.
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Halloween tends to make us fat, since we stock up on lots of candy corn and other special treats to give to the kids who come to our door, and we always end up eating some of it ourselves. Another Halloween tradition is watching horror movies–and these can help compensate for the candy-eating, because recent research has revealed that they help burn off calories!
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It will take more than computer science and neuroscience to develop machines that think like people.

In the October 3rd edition of the Guardian, David Deutsch writes: "The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

"The field of "artificial general intelligence" or AGI–has made no progress whatever during the entire six decades of its existence. Despite this long record of failure, AGI must be possible."
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