Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the world is ending tomorrow. Well not actually ending tomorrow. Christians will be beamed up into heaven, and the rest will suffer 153 days of death and horror till it winds down and truly goes kaput on October 21. So says 89-yr old Harold Camping of the California based Family Radio Group.

For those of us looking for excuses to stop toiling and sweating away for the future, this is exactly what we were looking for. These are the three things we’re going to do to make these last few hours worthwhile:

Make love

Make peace and,

Party like there is no tomorrow.

Mr. Camping has been wrong before. If he’s wrong again we can go back to our regularly scheduled chaotic lives on Sunday May 22nd…..at least till Dec 21st, 2012. That’s when the Mayans say the world is going to end.

Some of us can only hope to have this amount of energy, flexibility, confidence and attitude at age 65.

Back in 2009, Dr. Sainuddin Pattazhy, a scientist in Kerala, India brought to the world’s attention a study showing that cell phone towers were responsible for killing off bees. Today Daniel Favre, a Swiss scientist has published another report confirming these findings.

The study – published in the beekeepers’ magazine Apidologie – found that the phone signals confused the bees who began to fly erratically before suddenly dying. (Mail Online)

Since 2006 the alarm bells have been sounded and growing louder and louder:

“One in every three bites of food you eat comes from a plant, or depends on a plant, that was pollinated by an insect, most likely a bee,” said Dennis vanEngelsdorp of Penn State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences.

It has been going on for four years. In 2009 almost 29 percent of the bee colonies in the United States collapsed, say scientists who surveyed commercial beekeepers and brokers. That’s slightly less than the 36 percent loss in 2008 and the 32 percent counted in 2007, but an informal survey just finished suggests that the die-off continues. (ABC News)

What now? Are we going to do something about it, or go as the bees go?

What an incredible few hours it has been. Osama Bin Laden, the mass murderer who killed thousands of Americans on 9/11, a monster who brutalized and denied entire generations of Afghan people a chance for a life of dignity and peace had finally met his end. After 10 long years it took just 40 minutes to finish him.

So many hours later I am still absorbing every detail of how those 40 minutes came to be: the years of persistent intelligence that went into tracking him; a President determined to bring him to justice, the months that went into planning an operation that was quite simply just ballsy, and the final tense minutes as things had the potential to go wrong but didn’t.

For all the talk about a brave and intelligent leader, in the end Osama Bin Laden turned out to be a spoiled rich criminal camping out in an affluent neighborhood, behind walls and barbed wire, using women as human shields and protected at least in some measure by the Government of Pakistan.

Terrorism will not end with his death. Peace and goodwill will not magically occur. Others will take his place and we might even experience another revenge attack. There will be debates about what his death means for America. And what price our country paid to hunt down this one man. There will be arguments about who should get credit and who shouldn’t. Every color and stripe of political persuasion will spin their own versions of the truth. In the end none of it will take away from the complete satisfaction in knowing that the last image Osama Bin Laden saw before he died was an American Navy SEAL officer.

Picture below from the FBI website.

~Genevieve