With less than 2 weeks until the Mayan Calendar ends, some of the cable/satellite networks have been putting out a lot of garbage, such as Prophets of Doom, and Countdown to Armageddon. Personally, I find it all rather silly, but there are some folks out there who are really, honestly frightened by the prospect. So, for the sake of argument, and assuming that it's true, and E.T. will be coming to turn the Earth into a giant, flaming crop circle, what would you do in the intervening 13 days?

Not as daft as it sounds once you read the article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20553143

Grid scale storage on the way?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20420557

A nice little article here:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121206-moral-machines-killer-questions

Did any of you get to see the fantastic display of Rugby by the Boys in White v The All Blacks. Unfortunately, due to circumstance I didn't quite get to see the full spectical. From what I did see though, this the best game of Rugby England have played since 2003. Clearly our young team is starting to grow, troucing the World Number One team 38-21. The biggest margin win against the All Blacks ever.

Bring on the Six Nations.

Warning. Do not watch this video if drunk.

From BadAstonomy Blog. This a a video of the eclipse from 25km up. You can see the shadow of the moon on the clouds. I have linked to the BA blog page so you can read his, better, description.

Chris Eliasmith writes a book about how to build a brain, soon to be published. He even created a virtual brain to demonstrate.

Canadian scientists create a functioning, virtual brain