Welcome to the apocalypse!

If you are reading this column, I have good news for you: the world didn’t end Friday. In case you missed it, a lot of folks were worried it would.

All of this is because of an old Mayan calendar. The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, created by Mayans in 3114 BC and carved into stone, contains entries for every single day from that time right up until December 21, 2012. Then it simply stops. The Mayans may have simply run out of symbols or stone, or broke their chisel at that point, or they may have been trying to give us a warning, but as a result, a whole lot of present-day folks seem convi...