How People Around the World Are Preparing for the ‘2012 Apocalypse’

Anxiety began to spread around the world from the moment the information about the Mayan calendar ending on December 21, 2012, appeared on television and the Internet. A great number of religious and superstitious people all over the world seem to have taken this 2012 apocalypse prophecy seriously. Zombie Apocalypse?…

The CERN Experiment & Other Things ‘Blamed’ for a Possible End of the World

A surprising number of people seem to take the rumors about the coming end of the world in December 2012 seriously. Let's explore a few things that, according to superstitious people, could cause it. The CERN Experiment in 2012 This year, CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) starts another series…

10 Futuristic Predictions That Have Not Yet Come True

From flying cars, food in pill form, and volatile devices to time travel, teleportation, and cyborgs... All these amazing ideas from sci-fi movies and books have not become a reality yet. Let's look at fascinating futuristic predictions we are anxiously waiting for but apparently, in vain. 10 Futuristic Predictions That…

5 Reasons Not to Worry about What Will Happen on December 21, 2012

People who love all kinds of conspiracy theories tend to believe that the heads of governments, along with the senior officials and the richest people of the world know something that "mere mortals" do not know. These kinds of people worry in particular about what will happen on December 21,…

The Scarlet Plague: Jack London’s Prophetic Novel about the Pandemic

Jack London wrote his novel The Scarlet Plague 100 years ago. It is one of the first dystopias in the history of the literature and one of his most famous works, published in London Magazine in 1912. The plot of The Scarlet Plague seems quite straightforward. At the beginning of…