Happy New B’ak’tun
Welcome to the 14th B’ak’tun in the Mayan Long Count calendar. That wasn’t so bad, was it?
In case anyone has any New B’ak’tun Resolutions about charities, I wanted to link to GiveWell, an organisation that tries to find evidence about the most cost-effective and transparent charities, and also provides a way to donate to these charities.
An encouraging feature is that they don’t only publish what they found about each charity, they publish a detailed review of their mistakes.
Their current top 3 charities are one that distributes anti-mosquito bed nets, one that sends cash directly to very poor people in Kenya (via a very cheap cell-phone based system), and one that treats schistosomiasis.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
Wait, its not yet the 14th B’ak’tun at the natural center of the world, from which all things emanate — the USA!
Fingers crossed…
12 years ago
One would imagine that it is Mayan time that counts. I couldn’t find Maya on Google maps but I note that Cancun is 19 hours behind NZ.
My Mayan calendar ticked over from 12.19.19.17.19 to 13.0.0.0.0 overnight. But I notice that the software has an upper limit of 33.5.3.6.1
Since this date corresponds to 31 Dec 9999 I conclude that that is the real end of the world.
12 years ago