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While (one of the) Mayan calendar(s) may "end" today, it's hardly the end of the world. Dal prof Chris Helland, from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, has been a regular media expert on doomsday prophecies, and yesterday he sat down with CTV's Steve Murphy to discuss the "apocalypse" and where exactly all these theories about the Mayan calendar came from.

"The same thing with the odometer on your car," Dr. Helland told Murphy. "Just because it's gotten to nines and it's rolling over to zeroes doesn't mean it's the end of the world."

Watch the entire interview on CTV Atlantic's website.