My big three wins of these from a personal perspective would be:

  • Advances in vaccine technology, in particular mRNA tech. I also love how the right-wing weirdos don't even understand what the tech actually is, nevermind what it does. 😅 It makes their ramblings about it so entertaining to hear.
  • An actual image of an actual black hole. Little me decades ago loved Sci-Fi - I mean I kinda still do. And this is Sci-Fi, now. It's weird to think that in 30 years that near-future actually became the present.
  • Feathered dinosaurs, simply because of it making me realize how my entire visual understanding of dinosaurs was entirely the creation of Jurassic Park.

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[–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I'm not giving them my email address to read the article.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Apparently #1 is the development of the paywall.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Homo floresiensis, discovered in 2003, lived on the Indonesian island of Flores some 50,000 years ago; these relatives have been nicknamed “hobbits” for their small stature.

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