In the past week, °IJʿ faculty answered the call to journalists who sought out qualified experts.
As 2012 approaches, journalists are calling on for his insights into the Mayan calendar. Bookshelves and movie theaters are full of prophecies, theories, and predictions that this date marks the end of the world, or at least the end of the world, as we know it.
As the author of the book , Aveni helps shed light on the Mayan calendar and the popular belief from the 2012ers that the end of the calendar means the end of the world.
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“But what the 2012ers are saying is that there will not be any more time,” Aveni added. “They are taking the idea of linear time, which is a Christian idea. For the Maya it is the end of one cycle and the beginning of another cycle. Maya time is renewed.”
Professor Meika Loe has an intimate discussion about aging
Loe, author of was recently interviewed by Jim Du Bois for Access Minnesota, a weekly public affairs radio program, on “Aging while maintaining a fulfilling and independent life.”
Loe talks about how she thinks we need to embrace elders in the community. Her book has 13 life lessons on aging for one of the fastest growing segments in the United States.
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