Not to say the 2010 Mayan Apocalypse doesn't have a truckload of scientific merit, but try this ...
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/whats ... 19hsn.html
"But in today's Internet Age, when hardly anything remains secret, word of unusual bird deaths has spread with unparalleled speed.
"In 1960 if a bunch of birds started falling from the sky it may have been noticed by some people. It may have gotten reported in the local paper, but it may never have gotten any further than that," said Robert Thompson, professor of pop culture at Syracuse University."
