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Time lists top 10 scientific discoveries of 2007

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Bill Morris

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Here's Time Magazine's top-ten list for 2007 (I didn't even know the year was over):

1. Stem Cell Breakthroughs
2. Human Mapped
3. Brightest Supernova Recorded
4. Hundreds of New Species
5. Building a Human Heart Valve
6. "Hot Jupiters" Discovered
7. A Big Birdlike Dinosaur
8. Man's Migration Out of Africa
9. The World's Oldest Animal
10. Real-Life Kryptonite

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204_1686252_1690920,00.html

The article also has links to their top-ten lists of medical breakthroughs, green ideas, natural disasters, and man-made natural disasters.

They also have a top-10 list of gadgets for 2007:
1. Apple iPhone
2. Nikon Coolpix S51c
3. Netgear SPH200W Wi-Fi Skype Phone
4. Palm Centro
5. Sony Handycam HDR-CX7
6. Samsung P2
7. Toshiba Portégé R500-S5004
8. FlyTech Dragonfly
9. Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive
10. Belkin N1 Vision Wi-Fi Router
 
I remember a little while after they said the human genome was mapped some scientists finished mapping a wine grape's genome, and the wine grape's was slightly longer and more complex than ours.
 
Assholes:
In October, researchers from Bangor University in Wales were trawling an ocean shelf off the coast of north Iceland when they stumbled on what is believed to be the world's oldest living animal: a 405 year-old clam. Or it was living, until researchers had to kill it to determine the clam's age by studying rings on its shell.
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SlyCardie said:
I remember a little while after they said the human genome was mapped some scientists finished mapping a wine grape's genome, and the wine grape's was slightly longer and more complex than ours.
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Not the size that matters?
 
Tharpridge In A said:
Assholes:
In October, researchers from Bangor University in Wales were trawling an ocean shelf off the coast of north Iceland when they stumbled on what is believed to be the world's oldest living animal: a 405 year-old clam. Or it was living, until researchers had to kill it to determine the clam's age by studying rings on its shell.
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No, I think the word you're looking for is "idiots".
 
I have one. Recently I was in a meeting where 4 out of 15 participants had one. That was weird.

I guess, I need to find something new. ;)
 
SlyCardie said:
I remember a little while after they said the human genome was mapped some scientists finished mapping a wine grape's genome, and the wine grape's was slightly longer and more complex than ours.
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Quality not quantity.
 
Mallory said:
^ Yeah, I'm not getting the disdain either.
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Me, either.

I mean, like it or not, the iPhone definitely belongs in the top listing of most important tech advances of the year.
 
LCARS 24 said:
6. "Hot Jupiters" Discovered
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How is this one of the top discoveries of 2007? We've been finding hot Jupiters for years now. I would've thought the top exoplanet discovery of the year would be the Gliese 581 system with its large terrestrial planets that are the first possible candidates for habitability ever discovered. (The hype over 581c's habitability soon died down, but subsequent work has shown that 581d might be borderline habitable: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=1625 )

10. Real-Life Kryptonite
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They're kidding, right? Just because somebody found a mineral with the same composition written on a random bit of set decoration in a recent fantasy film, that somehow qualifies as one of the top scientific discoveries of the year? Or are these "Top 10" lists based on something like the attention and reader interest the stories got rather than their actual significance?
 
The iPhone certaintly got the most publicity out of any new gadget this year, but whether it's really Everything You Ever Wanted In A Phone And More® is debatable. I know I want one, but I'm not about to switch service providers and drop 400 bucks.
 
Tharpridge In A said:
Assholes:
In October, researchers from Bangor University in Wales were trawling an ocean shelf off the coast of north Iceland when they stumbled on what is believed to be the world's oldest living animal: a 405 year-old clam. Or it was living, until researchers had to kill it to determine the clam's age by studying rings on its shell.
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How would they have known in the first place if they hadn't killed it and examined it? You seem to be blaming the researchers for not being totally clairvoyant.
 
The iPhone is a revolution which went wrong, still dont get the point of a phone that big, if it were me I would have had most the same features but put it into a palm top computer package...although I think thats the next thing they will do, iPhone which can do all of the things you HP palmpad can do
 
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