Ask a Historian: Should We Enjoy Friday the 13th like it will be our Last?

In September, Alan McEachern, a prolific historian of Prince Edward Island, the environment, and much else, published a piece at the online commentary site The Conversation. It is called "Scientists predicted Friday 13 November 2026 would be ‘doomsday.’ Should you be worried?"

I hear it has become the most widely circulated thing he has ever published.  Today, the eve of destruction, he was conversing with Australian television from his office at Western University in London.  Tomorrow: who knows? 

You should maybe read it soon. McEachern is hopeful but...