December 21, 2012: Will the World End in a Year?

Happy December 21, 2011! It's exactly one year until the end of the world, according to some interpretations of the Mayan calendar.

Regardless of what actually happens on December 21, 2012, though, there are plenty of people preparing for some kind of disaster. A city in southern Mexico has already begun counting down to the final day, according to the Huffington Post.

Fear not, though: most Mayan experts seem to think that it will be the end of a particular cycle of time, rather than the end of time, according to the Huffington Post. Click here to read the whole article.