Science correspondent Alok Jha of The Guardian examines the controversial theory that the ancient Maya civilisation predicted that the world will be destroyed on Dec 21, 2012. He speaks to Mayan expert Professor Elizabeth Graham at the British Museum about the idea’s origins and if it has any scientific validity.
Created as a collaboration between World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Ben Lee and Leo Burnett, “Space Chimp” carries a message about our planet, and features Ben Lee’s track, “Song for the Divine Mother of the Universe“.
iPhones and Android phones collect the position data of wifi and cell networks near by, so the folks at Crowdflow.net combined a set of donated location data from 881 phones to come up with this striking animation, which uncannily resembles the activity of fireflies around a lamp post.
