2000s Events

2000s (152 events)

2000 ID: 3043

Burlington Santa Fe Railroad surreptitiously tests 35 employees for carpal tunnel genetic predisposition

ID: 3043

discrimination privacy genetics railroad testing

2000 ID: 3044

40% of blacks, 17% of whites functionally illiterate; 500 per 100,000 Americans incarcerated (up from 50 per 100,000 for 140 years until 1930)

ID: 3044

America statistics inequality literacy incarceration

2000 ID: 3045

Medical community begins recognizing ADHD in adults, creating 'second wave' of prescriptions

ID: 3045

medicine diagnosis ADHD pharmaceuticals mental health

2000 ID: 3046

Commodity Futures Modernization Act exempts derivatives from regulation

ID: 3046

finance legislation deregulation derivatives commodities

2000 ID: 3047

Y2K preparations force massive modernization of accounting systems worldwide

ID: 3047

technology accounting systems modernization Y2K

2000 ID: 3048

Human Genome Project uses mathematical sequence analysis algorithms - reveals complete human genetic code

ID: 3048

mathematics milestone biotechnology genetics Human Genome

2000 ID: 3049

The human genome project advances, spurring pharmaceutical and biomaterials development

ID: 3049

research biotechnology genetics pharmaceuticals

2000 ID: 3050

US declares measles 'eliminated' (later retracted)

ID: 3050

disease measles CDC elimination premature

2000 ID: 3051

Institute of Medicine: Hospitals are 3rd leading cause of death

ID: 3051

death statistics healthcare medical errors hospitals

2000 ID: 3052

Annual US biodefense funding totaled an estimated $700 million (Pre-2001)

ID: 3052

military funding budget biodefense biological weapons

2000 ID: 3053

Divine Mercy Sunday established universally - St. Faustina canonized - 'Mankind will not have peace until it turns to Divine Mercy'

ID: 3053

devotion canonization Catholic Divine Mercy St. Faustina

2000 ID: 4554

Khovanov homology categorifies Jones polynomial - stronger than all polynomial knot invariants

ID: 4554

mathematics topology homology knots Khovanov

2000 ID: 4408

January 2000

Transmeta unveils Crusoe processor - x86 emulation on VLIW core, low power but slow, Linus Torvalds worked there

ID: 4408

🏢 Transmeta

computing x86 Transmeta Crusoe

2000 ID: 4451

June 2000

Microsoft announces C# - designed by Anders Hejlsberg, Java-like language for .NET framework

ID: 4451

🏢 Microsoft Corporation

programming Microsoft C# .NET

2001 ID: 3054

Estonia creates Estonia Genome Project for 1.4 million citizens

ID: 3054

population genetics database Estonia genomics

2001 ID: 3055

Breaking UN Agreement: First major violation as brand-name ADHD drug ads appear in women's magazines and cable TV

ID: 3055

ADHD UN pharmaceuticals advertising violation

2001 ID: 3056

George W. Bush inauguration - son of German intelligence-connected father, surrounded by neoconservatives

ID: 3056

politics inauguration presidency Bush neoconservatives

2001 ID: 3059

First anthrax-laced letters postmarked from Trenton, New Jersey, sent to news media outlets

ID: 3059

attack anthrax bioterrorism letters Amerithrax

2001 ID: 3060

STELLARWIND begins - Warrantless surveillance program authorized by President Bush shortly after 9/11

ID: 3060

privacy NSA surveillance STELLARWIND warrantless

2001 ID: 3061

Robert Stevens, photojournalist at American Media Inc., became first person to die from inhalation anthrax

ID: 3061

death anthrax bioterrorism Amerithrax Stevens

2001 ID: 3062

Bruce Ivins examined Daschle anthrax spores: 'extremely pure preparation, extremely high concentration. These are not garage spores'

ID: 3062

analysis anthrax bioterrorism Amerithrax Ivins

2001 ID: 3063

President's Surveillance Program (PSP) launches - Umbrella program containing multiple surveillance activities

ID: 3063

privacy NSA surveillance Bush PSP

2001 ID: 3064

Terrorist Surveillance Program begins - Electronic surveillance component of PSP

ID: 3064

NSA surveillance terrorism electronic wiretapping

2001 ID: 3065

Additional anthrax letters sent to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy

ID: 3065

Senate anthrax bioterrorism Daschle Leahy

2001 ID: 3066

Final toll: Five people died and 17 were infected in what became known as 'Amerithrax'

ID: 3066

deaths anthrax bioterrorism Amerithrax casualties

2001 ID: 3067

Douglas Valentine predicts Phoenix would become bureaucratic model for homeland security program enveloping America

ID: 3067

prediction Phoenix Program surveillance homeland security Valentine

2001 ID: 3068

Ivins typed email to colleagues offering to provide Ames strain 'for genetic analysis or sequencing by whomever'

ID: 3068

genetics anthrax bioterrorism Ivins Ames strain

2001 ID: 3069

3G wireless networks begin deployment

ID: 3069

technology mobile wireless telecommunications 3G

2001 ID: 3070

Enron scandal exposes massive accounting fraud - company collapses despite reports of strong profits

ID: 3070

scandal accounting collapse fraud Enron

2001 ID: 3071

Wikipedia launches using mathematical ranking and search algorithms

ID: 3071

knowledge collaboration launch internet Wikipedia

2001 ID: 3072

BASF opens integrated Verbund site in Nanjing, China, reflecting industry's shift to Asia

ID: 3072

China industry BASF chemicals globalization

2001 ID: 4519

Published Subject Indicators for Topic Maps - URIs for abstract concepts enabling automatic data integration

ID: 4519

semantic web knowledge representation topic maps data integration

2001 ID: 4546

Joy concatenative language - programs as function composition without variables, proven more fundamental than lambda calculus

ID: 4546

programming concatenative Joy combinators stack-based

2001 ID: 3057

September 11, 2001

9/11 attacks planned from Hamburg, Germany - German intelligence has advance knowledge

ID: 3057

Germany intelligence 9/11 terrorism Hamburg

2001 ID: 3058

September 11, 2001

Terrorist attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon

ID: 3058

attack 9/11 terrorism World Trade Center Pentagon

2002 ID: 3073

Virginia governor formally apologizes for eugenic sterilizations

ID: 3073

history eugenics Virginia sterilization apology

2002 ID: 3074

President Bush announced he would request $11 billion over next two years to protect nation from bioterrorism

ID: 3074

defense funding budget Bush bioterrorism

2002 ID: 3075

Army investigators looked into contamination problem at Fort Detrick where anthrax had been found outside proper containment

ID: 3075

investigation contamination Fort Detrick anthrax biosafety

2002 ID: 3076

Harry Hay dies

ID: 3076

death Harry Hay activist

2002 ID: 3077

Sarbanes-Oxley Act passed in response to Enron and other corporate scandals, revolutionizing corporate governance and auditing

ID: 3077

reform legislation auditing Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance

2002 ID: 3078

Grigori Perelman proves Poincaré Conjecture using differential geometry - resolves 100-year-old topology problem

ID: 3078

mathematics proof topology Perelman Poincaré Conjecture

2002 ID: 3079

Photocatalytic concrete (self-cleaning concrete) first commercialized using titanium dioxide

ID: 3079

innovation construction materials concrete self-cleaning

2002 ID: 3080

St. Josemaría Escrivá canonized - 300,000 attend, largest ever - Universal call to holiness proclaimed

ID: 3080

canonization Catholic Opus Dei Escrivá holiness

2002 ID: 4510

PAQ compression series begins - neural compression approaching Kolmogorov limit

ID: 4510

neural networks information theory compression PAQ

2002 ID: 4533

AKS primality test proves PRIMES in P - first deterministic polynomial algorithm for primality

ID: 4533

mathematics complexity primes algorithms AKS

2002 ID: 4571

Matthew Cook proves Rule 110 cellular automaton is Turing complete - simplest known universal system

ID: 4571

complexity computation universal Wolfram Rule 110

2003 ID: 3082

James Watson: 'If you are really stupid, I would call that a disease... So I'd like to get rid of that, to help the lower 10 per cent'

ID: 3082

eugenics intelligence controversy genetics Watson

2003 ID: 3083

Iraq War launched - German opposition provides political cover while German companies profit from reconstruction

ID: 3083

war Germany profit Iraq War reconstruction

2003 ID: 3084

Rose Revolution in Georgia - German-trained activists using EU integration model

ID: 3084

Germany revolution EU Georgia color revolution

2003 ID: 3085

George W. Bush provides tens of millions for Salvadoran military/police 'Mano Dura' program - Phoenix Program methods

ID: 3085

Phoenix Program El Salvador Bush military aid counterinsurgency

2003 ID: 3086

CIA-USAID relationship revived under Bush/Obama administrations

ID: 3086

intelligence CIA development USAID covert operations

2003 ID: 3087

Biodefense funding surge: Biowarfare-related funding at NIAID increased by $1.5 billion

ID: 3087

funding biodefense biological weapons NIAID surge

2003 ID: 3088

NIAID assigned lead responsibility within HHS and NIH for civilian biodefense research

ID: 3088

research biodefense NIAID responsibility civilian

2003 ID: 3089

Scale of increase: $1.7 billion became available for biodefense research virtually overnight

ID: 3089

research funding biodefense billions rapid

2003 ID: 3090

Ivins and two colleagues received Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service for helping solve technical problems in anthrax vaccine manufacture

ID: 3090

vaccine anthrax Ivins award decoration

2003 ID: 3091

SARS outbreak begins (Firstenberg suggests correlation with 3G rollout)

ID: 3091

pandemic outbreak correlation 3G SARS

2003 ID: 3092

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) begins operations to regulate auditing of public companies

ID: 3092

accounting regulation auditing PCAOB oversight

2003 ID: 3093

Human Genome Project completed using advanced mathematical sequence analysis

ID: 3093

mathematics completion milestone genetics Human Genome

2003 ID: 3094

Grisha Perelman develops Ricci flow techniques for topology - revolutionizes geometric topology

ID: 3094

mathematics geometry topology Perelman Ricci flow

2003 ID: 3095

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes first commercialized for sporting goods and electronics

ID: 3095

materials electronics commercialization carbon nanotubes nanotechnology

2003 ID: 3096

CDO issuance jumps from $30 billion to $157 billion annually (2003-2004)

ID: 3096

finance increase CDO derivatives bubble

2003 ID: 4560

Factor language's quotation system - code as data without parentheses, simpler than Lisp

ID: 4560

programming concatenative stack-based Factor metaprogramming

2003 ID: 4628

Grigori Perelman proves Poincaré conjecture using Ricci flow - solves century-old problem, declines Fields Medal

ID: 4628

mathematics Perelman Ricci flow Poincaré geometrization

2003 ID: 5660

Complete classification revision officially separates skunks from Mustelidae family into Mephitidae

ID: 5660

📍 New York

skunk taxonomy Mephitidae Mustelidae classification revision

New York

2003 ID: 3081

April 17, 2003

Pope John Paul II issues 'Ecclesia de Eucharistia' on the Eucharist - 'The Church draws her life from the Eucharist'

ID: 3081

theology Eucharist Catholic Pope encyclical

2004 ID: 3097

33 Cosmologists' Open Letter challenges Big Bang theory: 'The big bang today relies on growing number of hypothetical entities'

ID: 3097

science cosmology Big Bang controversy challenge

2004 ID: 3098

NATO expansion includes Baltic states with unresolved Nazi collaboration history

ID: 3098

history expansion Nazi NATO Baltic states

2004 ID: 3099

Orange Revolution in Ukraine - German political foundations heavily involved

ID: 3099

politics Germany Ukraine color revolution Orange Revolution

2004 ID: 3100

SEC allows investment banks to increase leverage ratios

ID: 3100

banking finance SEC deregulation leverage

2004 ID: 3101

STELLARWIND Crisis - DOJ officials threatened to resign; program restructured

ID: 3101

crisis resignation surveillance STELLARWIND DOJ

2004 ID: 3102

Congress passed Project Bioshield Act, providing $5.6 billion over ten years for development and procurement of vaccines and drugs for biological warfare defense

ID: 3102

legislation funding biodefense Project Bioshield vaccines

2004 ID: 3103

Additional samples linked to Ivins' flask were discovered and sent to FBI

ID: 3103

investigation FBI evidence anthrax Ivins

2004 ID: 3105

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption accelerates globally - EU requires IFRS for public companies

ID: 3105

accounting standards international EU IFRS

2004 ID: 3106

Facebook founded using mathematical graph theory for social networks

ID: 3106

graph theory founding Facebook social media Zuckerberg

2004 ID: 3107

Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov isolate graphene, creating new class of 2D materials

ID: 3107

physics materials Nobel breakthrough graphene

2004 ID: 3108

Dr. Cherry: Only 20% had measurable pertussis antibodies one month after vaccine

ID: 3108

immunity vaccine effectiveness pertussis study

2004 ID: 3109

Study predicts vaccine immunity wanes in 25 years

ID: 3109

prediction immunity vaccine study waning

2004 ID: 3110

Iraq 'Salvador Option' - John Negroponte implements Phoenix Program methods with death squads becoming leading cause of death

ID: 3110

Phoenix Program Iraq Salvador Option death squads Negroponte

2004 ID: 4512

OWL-DL decidable ontology language - guaranteed reasoning termination for knowledge representation

ID: 4512

reasoning semantic web ontology OWL knowledge representation

2004 ID: 4548

Turner proposes Total Functional Programming - Turing incompleteness as feature for guaranteed termination

ID: 4548

programming total functions Turner termination verification

2004 ID: 4627

Candès and Tao develop compressed sensing - recover signals from far fewer samples than Nyquist rate

ID: 4627

mathematics compressed sensing Candès Tao sparse

2004 ID: 3104

November 30, 2004

Johnine Leininger provides certified affidavit testimony about Bella Dodd's speech claiming to personally place 1,200 men in Catholic seminaries

ID: 3104

Catholic infiltration communism Bella Dodd testimony

2005 ID: 3114

Angela Merkel becomes German Chancellor - systematic expansion of German influence begins

ID: 3114

power Germany Chancellor EU Merkel

2005 ID: 3115

Iranian nuclear crisis escalates - German companies maintain trade relationships

ID: 3115

trade crisis Germany nuclear Iran

2005 ID: 3116

Peak subprime lending - $625 billion in subprime mortgages originated

ID: 3116

finance peak bubble subprime mortgages

2005 ID: 3117

Turbulence - NSA information technology project for data analysis begins

ID: 3117

technology data analysis NSA surveillance Turbulence

2005 ID: 3118

Dr. Terrence Tumpey at CDC began work to reconstruct complete 1918 influenza virus using reverse genetics

ID: 3118

CDC reconstruction 1918 flu virus gain of function

2005 ID: 3119

Tumpey reconstructed 1918 virus: 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'

ID: 3119

reconstruction 1918 flu virus Tumpey achievement

2005 ID: 3120

Study 'Characterization of Reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic Virus' published in Science

ID: 3120

publication research 1918 flu virus Science

2005 ID: 3121

Reconstructed 1918 influenza virus added to HHS select agents list

ID: 3121

regulation biodefense 1918 flu virus select agents

2005 ID: 3122

Ivins became focus of FBI investigation

ID: 3122

investigation FBI anthrax Ivins focus

2005 ID: 3123

FASB Statement 123R requires companies to record stock options as expenses

ID: 3123

accounting regulation FASB stock options expenses

2005 ID: 3124

YouTube launches using mathematical video compression and recommendation algorithms

ID: 3124

YouTube launch video algorithms streaming

2005 ID: 3125

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) begins commercial production for high-rise construction

ID: 3125

construction materials CLT timber sustainable

2005 ID: 4556

Persistent homology tracks topological features over time - birth/death of structures

ID: 4556

topology data analysis TDA persistent homology

2005 ID: 3111

April 2, 2005

Pope Saint John Paul II dies after 26-year pontificate

ID: 3111

death Catholic saint pontificate Pope John Paul II

2005 ID: 3126

April 2, 2005

Pope St. John Paul II dies - 'Totus Tuus' - Youth cry 'Santo subito!' - Defeated Communism

ID: 3126

death saint legacy Pope John Paul II Communism

2005 ID: 3112

April 19, 2005

Pope Benedict XVI elected as German theologian Joseph Ratzinger

ID: 3112

election Catholic German Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger

2005 ID: 3127

November 13, 2005

Charles de Foucauld beatified by Benedict XVI - Model of contemplation and evangelization through presence

ID: 3127

contemplation Catholic Charles de Foucauld beatification evangelization

2005 ID: 3113

December 25, 2005

Pope Benedict XVI issues first encyclical 'Deus Caritas Est' on divine and human love

ID: 3113

theology love Catholic encyclical Pope Benedict XVI

2006 ID: 3128

OSI publishes comprehensive official record of Operation Paperclip

ID: 3128

history Nazi scientists Operation Paperclip OSI declassified

2006 ID: 3129

Hubertus Strughold removed from International Space Hall of Fame

ID: 3129

removal Nazi controversy Strughold space medicine

2006 ID: 3130

CDO issuance peaks at $552 billion

ID: 3130

finance peak CDO derivatives bubble

2006 ID: 3131

Section 215 Bulk Metadata Collection begins - NSA starts bulk collection of telephone metadata

ID: 3131

NSA surveillance metadata Section 215 bulk collection

2006 ID: 3132

MAINWAY Database established - Stores hundreds of billions of telephone call records

ID: 3132

NSA surveillance database MAINWAY phone records

2006 ID: 3133

Science and Nature carry reports of specific mutations enabling H5 viral hemagglutinin to bind human tissues

ID: 3133

research virus gain of function H5N1 mutations

2006 ID: 3134

Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act fully implemented requiring internal control testing

ID: 3134

regulation internal controls Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance

2006 ID: 3135

Twitter founded using mathematical algorithms for information propagation

ID: 3135

founding social media algorithms Twitter microblogging

2007 ID: 3137

Pope Benedict XVI states: 'Marx's fundamental error was materialism; he forgot that man always remains man'

ID: 3137

philosophy materialism critique Marx Pope Benedict XVI

2007 ID: 3138

Credit markets freeze as subprime crisis begins

ID: 3138

banking financial crisis collapse subprime credit freeze

2007 ID: 3139

Germany holds eleventh EU Council Presidency under Angela Merkel

ID: 3139

Germany leadership presidency EU Merkel

2007 ID: 3140

Germany successfully negotiates Treaty of Lisbon after Constitutional Treaty failure

ID: 3140

Germany constitution EU Lisbon Treaty negotiation

2007 ID: 3141

STELLARWIND/PSP Authorization Expires - Programs transition to statutory authority under Protect America Act

ID: 3141

transition NSA surveillance STELLARWIND Protect America Act

2007 ID: 3143

XKeyscore used by Germany's BND since 2007 - 'Widest reaching' NSA data collection system

ID: 3143

Germany NSA BND surveillance XKeyscore

2007 ID: 3144

Fair value accounting becomes prominent in financial instruments

ID: 3144

accounting FASB fair value financial instruments volatility

2007 ID: 3145

Apple iPhone launched; smartphone revolution begins

ID: 3145

revolution mobile iPhone Apple smartphone

2007 ID: 3146

iPhone launched using mathematical signal processing and touch interface algorithms

ID: 3146

mathematics signal processing algorithms iPhone touch screen

2007 ID: 3147

REACH regulation comes into effect in European Union for chemical safety

ID: 3147

safety regulation chemicals EU REACH

2007 ID: 3148

iPhone launch drives demand for advanced electronic materials and rare earth elements

ID: 3148

materials electronics demand iPhone rare earth

2007 ID: 4555

Mapper algorithm approximates manifolds from point clouds - found breast cancer subgroups

ID: 4555

machine learning topology data analysis TDA Mapper

2007 ID: 4559

Surface Area Heuristic perfected for optimal BVH construction in ray tracing

ID: 4559

computer graphics optimization ray tracing BVH SAH

2007 ID: 3142

September 11, 2007

PRISM program launches - Begins collecting data from internet companies - Microsoft joined

ID: 3142

NSA surveillance PRISM Microsoft data collection

2007 ID: 3149

September 16, 2007

Marie-Céline beatified in Bordeaux - Poor Clare who died at 19 recognized

ID: 3149

suffering Catholic beatification Marie-Céline Poor Clare

2007 ID: 3136

November 30, 2007

Pope Benedict XVI issues 'Spe Salvi' on Christian hope

ID: 3136

theology Catholic encyclical Pope Benedict XVI hope

2008 ID: 3150

Protect America Act of 2007 enabled PRISM operations

ID: 3150

NSA surveillance Protect America Act PRISM legal framework

2008 ID: 3151

FISA Amendments Act of 2008 provided legal framework

ID: 3151

NSA surveillance legal framework FISA amendments

2008 ID: 3152

TEMPORA tested - GCHQ's internet traffic interception program

ID: 3152

surveillance internet interception TEMPORA GCHQ

2008 ID: 3153

Yahoo! joins PRISM

ID: 3153

NSA surveillance PRISM data collection Yahoo

2008 ID: 3154

Eli Lilly & Company develops capacity to produce LSD in 'tonnage quantities'

ID: 3154

LSD production Eli Lilly pharmaceuticals capacity

2008 ID: 3155

Large Hadron Collider first beam at CERN

ID: 3155

physics particle physics CERN milestone LHC

2008 ID: 3156

Lehman Brothers bankruptcy; AIG bailout ($182 billion total)

ID: 3156

financial crisis collapse Lehman Brothers AIG bailout

2008 ID: 3157

Bruce Ivins died by suicide from acetaminophen overdose at age 62

ID: 3157

death investigation suicide anthrax Ivins

2008 ID: 3158

FBI and DOJ officials announced that Ivins was likely solely responsible for 2001 anthrax attacks

ID: 3158

FBI anthrax Amerithrax Ivins conclusion

2008 ID: 3160

Global Financial Crisis leads to intense scrutiny of accounting standards, particularly fair value accounting

ID: 3160

accounting financial crisis standards fair value scrutiny

2008 ID: 3161

Global financial crisis analyzed using mathematical risk models - demonstrates dangers of mathematical complexity

ID: 3161

mathematics complexity financial crisis derivatives risk models

2008 ID: 3162

Lithium-ion batteries achieve widespread commercial adoption in consumer electronics

ID: 3162

electronics commercialization batteries lithium-ion energy storage

2008 ID: 3163

Smart glass (electrochromic windows) becomes commercially available for buildings

ID: 3163

innovation materials buildings smart glass energy efficiency

2008 ID: 3164

Australia pertussis epidemic: New genotype emerges under vaccine pressure

ID: 3164

evolution epidemic vaccine pertussis Australia

2008 ID: 5661

Urban skunk populations in Toronto reach estimated 15,000, prompting new management policies

ID: 5661

📍 Toronto

skunk wildlife management urban wildlife Toronto population explosion

Toronto

2008 ID: 3159

October 30, 2008

Barack Obama in Columbia, Missouri: 'We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America'

ID: 3159

election transformation campaign speech Obama

2009 ID: 3166

Leon Eisenberg's Deathbed Confession: ADHD co-founder says 'ADHD is prime example of fabricated disorder'

ID: 3166

confession psychiatry ADHD Eisenberg fabricated disorder

2009 ID: 3167

Google joins PRISM

ID: 3167

NSA surveillance Google PRISM data collection

2009 ID: 3168

Facebook joins PRISM

ID: 3168

NSA surveillance Facebook PRISM data collection

2009 ID: 3169

PalTalk joins PRISM

ID: 3169

NSA surveillance PRISM data collection PalTalk

2009 ID: 3170

ZunZuneo 'Cuban Twitter' development begins - USAID/OTI operation

ID: 3170

USAID social media ZunZuneo Cuba covert operation

2009 ID: 3171

Alan Gross arrested in Cuba for smuggling communications technology

ID: 3171

arrest USAID Cuba Alan Gross communications

2009 ID: 3172

H1N1 swine flu pandemic declared by WHO (Firstenberg notes timing with 4G development)

ID: 3172

pandemic WHO H1N1 swine flu 4G

2009 ID: 3173

FASB issues guidance on fair value measurements during market stress

ID: 3173

accounting financial crisis FASB fair value guidance

2009 ID: 3174

Bitcoin created using mathematical cryptography and blockchain algorithms

ID: 3174

cryptography Bitcoin cryptocurrency blockchain Satoshi Nakamoto

2009 ID: 3175

Royal Society predicts large epidemic cycles from high vaccination rates

ID: 3175

prediction Royal Society vaccination epidemics cycles

2009 ID: 4511

Asymmetric Numeral Systems (ANS) - arithmetic coding speed with FSE simplicity by Jarek Duda

ID: 4511

compression ANS arithmetic coding Duda

2009 ID: 3165

June 29, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI issues 'Caritas in Veritate' on charity and truth in social teaching

ID: 3165

charity Catholic encyclical social teaching Pope Benedict XVI

2010s (185 events)

2010 ID: 3176

Prescription rates climb to over 35 million (from 5 million in 1991)

ID: 3176

statistics increase pharmaceuticals prescriptions medication

2010 ID: 3177

Viktor Yanukovych elected Ukrainian President

ID: 3177

politics election Ukraine Yanukovych president

2010 ID: 3178

Stepan Bandera officially declared 'Hero of Ukraine' - Nazi collaboration rehabilitation begins

ID: 3178

Ukraine Nazi nationalism rehabilitation Bandera

2010 ID: 3179

European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) created following Franco-German proposal

ID: 3179

Germany financial crisis EU bailout EFSF

2010 ID: 3180

Germany leads creation of €440 billion rescue mechanism for eurozone crisis

ID: 3180

Germany financial crisis leadership bailout eurozone

2010 ID: 3181

ZunZuneo officially launched

ID: 3181

launch USAID social media ZunZuneo Cuba

2010 ID: 3182

YouTube joins PRISM

ID: 3182

YouTube NSA surveillance PRISM data collection

2010 ID: 3183

Royal Concierge prototyped - GCHQ program monitoring hotel bookings

ID: 3183

surveillance GCHQ Royal Concierge hotels monitoring

2010 ID: 3184

LHC successful restart after repairs

ID: 3184

physics particle physics CERN LHC restart

2010 ID: 3185

FBI formally concluded investigation and closed Amerithrax case

ID: 3185

investigation FBI anthrax Amerithrax case closed

2010 ID: 3186

4G LTE networks begin global deployment

ID: 3186

wireless telecommunications 4G LTE deployment

2010 ID: 3187

Dodd-Frank Act creates additional financial reporting requirements for banks

ID: 3187

banking legislation regulation Dodd-Frank financial reform

2010 ID: 3188

Instagram launches using mathematical image processing algorithms

ID: 3188

launch social media Instagram image processing filters

2010 ID: 3189

Jacob Lurie develops systematic higher category theory - foundation for modern homotopy theory

ID: 3189

mathematics topology category theory Lurie homotopy

2010 ID: 3190

Shale gas boom in United States begins reshaping global chemical production economics

ID: 3190

economics energy chemicals shale gas fracking

2010 ID: 3191

Merck whistleblower lawsuit alleges falsified mumps vaccine documents

ID: 3191

vaccine fraud Merck mumps whistleblower

2010 ID: 3192

Several early studies attempting to determine requirements for airborne transmission of H5N1 virus failed (2004-2011)

ID: 3192

failure research gain of function H5N1 airborne transmission

2010 ID: 3193

Shroud of Turin public exposition - 2 million pilgrims venerate - Pope Benedict XVI: 'This is an icon written in blood'

ID: 3193

relic Catholic Shroud of Turin Pope Benedict XVI exposition

2010 ID: 5790

Apple genome sequenced confirms Kazakhstan origin - Malus sieversii proven as ancestor of all domestic apples

ID: 5790

📍 Kazakhstan

apple Kazakhstan genome sequenced origin confirmed

Kazakhstan

2011 ID: 3194

Germany initially hesitant on Greek bailout but Merkel ultimately provides crucial support

ID: 3194

Germany Greece Merkel bailout eurozone

2011 ID: 3195

Second Greek bailout package - Germany becomes indispensable for eurozone survival

ID: 3195

Germany Greece bailout eurozone debt crisis

2011 ID: 3196

Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance (Fiscal Compact) agreed

ID: 3196

treaty Germany governance EU Fiscal Compact

2011 ID: 3197

Skype joins PRISM

ID: 3197

NSA surveillance PRISM data collection Skype

2011 ID: 3198

AOL joins PRISM

ID: 3198

NSA surveillance PRISM data collection AOL

2011 ID: 3199

Robert S. Ford becomes US Ambassador to Syria, implements Phoenix Program methods supporting death squadrons

ID: 3199

Ford covert operations Phoenix Program death squads Syria

2011 ID: 3200

Internet Metadata Collection Discontinued due to operational constraints

ID: 3200

NSA surveillance metadata discontinued operational constraints

2011 ID: 3201

TEMPORA operational - GCHQ's 'Mastering the Internet' program becomes fully operational

ID: 3201

surveillance internet TEMPORA GCHQ operational

2011 ID: 3202

Ron Fouchier and Yoshihiro Kawaoka separately modified avian H5N1 influenza virus for respiratory droplet transmission between ferrets

ID: 3202

gain of function H5N1 Fouchier Kawaoka ferrets

2011 ID: 3203

Fauci, Nabel, and Collins in Washington Post: 'A flu virus risk worth taking' arguing benefits outweigh risks

ID: 3203

gain of function Fauci risk opinion Washington Post

2011 ID: 3204

National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity asked to review Fouchier and Kawaoka papers

ID: 3204

H5N1 NSABB review biosecurity publications

2011 ID: 3205

Report appeared online in Virology identifying mutations that could make H5N1 bind to human cells

ID: 3205

publication H5N1 mutations virology human cells

2011 ID: 3206

International Integrated Reporting Council established to promote combined financial and non-financial reporting

ID: 3206

accounting integrated reporting sustainability IIRC non-financial

2011 ID: 3207

IBM Watson defeats Jeopardy! champions using natural language processing mathematics

ID: 3207

AI milestone IBM Watson Jeopardy natural language

2011 ID: 3208

CRISPR gene editing technology developed, revolutionizing biotechnology

ID: 3208

biotechnology genetics breakthrough CRISPR gene editing

2011 ID: 3209

India AFP crisis: 60,000 new cases of acute flaccid paralysis during intensive polio vaccination

ID: 3209

crisis India paralysis polio vaccine AFP

2011 ID: 3210

Dr. David Witt study: 81% of pertussis cases in fully vaccinated children aged 8-12

ID: 3210

failure vaccine pertussis study Witt

2011 ID: 4563

Hypothes.is creates web annotation layer - annotate any webpage permanently with W3C standards

ID: 4563

collaboration standards web annotation Hypothes.is

2012 ID: 3211

European Stability Mechanism (ESM) formally adopted - Germany's approval crucial

ID: 3211

Germany mechanism bailout eurozone ESM

2012 ID: 3212

ECB President Mario Draghi's 'whatever it takes' speech - German Bundesbank opposes but cannot prevent

ID: 3212

Germany eurozone ECB Draghi monetary policy

2012 ID: 3213

Apple joins PRISM

ID: 3213

NSA surveillance PRISM data collection Apple

2012 ID: 3214

Russia expels USAID for 'attempts to influence political processes through grants'

ID: 3214

Russia USAID expulsion political interference grants

2012 ID: 3215

Edward Snowden begins downloading sensitive intelligence material

ID: 3215

beginning NSA surveillance whistleblower Snowden

2012 ID: 3216

MUSCULAR - NSA/GCHQ program intercepting Google and Yahoo data center communications; 181 million records in 30 days

ID: 3216

NSA Google GCHQ Yahoo MUSCULAR

2012 ID: 3217

Higgs boson discovery announced at CERN

ID: 3217

discovery physics CERN Higgs boson particle

2012 ID: 3218

New York Times publishes 'An Engineered Doomsday' calling for H5N1 constructs to be destroyed

ID: 3218

destruction New York Times H5N1 editorial doomsday

2012 ID: 3219

Fouchier, Kawaoka, and 37 influenza researchers publish letter calling for 60-day voluntary moratorium on H5N1 experiments

ID: 3219

voluntary H5N1 Fouchier Kawaoka moratorium

2012 ID: 3220

WHO convened Asilomar-like meeting in Geneva to discuss H5N1 research issues

ID: 3220

meeting Geneva WHO H5N1 Asilomar

2012 ID: 3221

Nature publishes Kawaoka's paper showing four mutations in H5N1 could allow airborne transmission

ID: 3221

H5N1 mutations Kawaoka Nature airborne

2012 ID: 3222

Science publishes Fouchier's paper showing five mutations could turn H5N1 into airborne spreader in mammals

ID: 3222

Science H5N1 mutations Fouchier mammals

2012 ID: 3223

Fauci writes for American Society for Microbiology that gain-of-function benefits worth increased pandemic risk

ID: 3223

gain of function Fauci academic paper benefits pandemic risk

2012 ID: 3224

NSABB announces benefits don't outweigh risks, recommends Science and Nature withhold key methodologies

ID: 3224

H5N1 NSABB recommendation withhold methodologies

2012 ID: 3225

Smartphone usage becomes ubiquitous globally

ID: 3225

technology mobile global smartphones ubiquitous

2012 ID: 3226

JOBS Act modifies disclosure requirements for emerging growth companies

ID: 3226

regulation disclosure JOBS Act emerging companies IPO

2012 ID: 3227

Higgs boson discovered using mathematical particle physics predictions - Standard Model confirmed

ID: 3227

mathematics validation particle physics Higgs boson Standard Model

2012 ID: 3228

Deep learning revolution begins with mathematical neural network breakthroughs

ID: 3228

mathematics revolution neural networks AI deep learning

2012 ID: 3229

Shinichi Mochizuki develops inter-universal Teichmüller theory

ID: 3229

mathematics arithmetic geometry breakthrough Mochizuki Teichmüller theory

2012 ID: 3230

Graphene-enhanced products first commercialized (tennis rackets, electronics)

ID: 3230

materials electronics commercialization graphene tennis rackets

2012 ID: 3231

Aerogel insulation becomes commercially available for building applications

ID: 3231

materials buildings insulation commercialization aerogel

2012 ID: 3232

Study: 'Non-polio AFP rate increases in proportion to polio vaccine doses'

ID: 3232

paralysis correlation polio vaccine study AFP

2012 ID: 4513

Datomic introduces time as first-class database concept - immutable, accumulate-only with time-travel queries

ID: 4513

database Datomic temporal immutable Clojure

2012 ID: 4551

Mochizuki claims proof of abc conjecture via Inter-universal Teichmüller theory - 500+ pages, still disputed

ID: 4551

mathematics number theory Mochizuki abc conjecture IUT theory

2012 ID: 4552

Scholze develops perfectoid spaces revolutionizing p-adic geometry - Fields Medal at 30

ID: 4552

mathematics arithmetic geometry Scholze perfectoid p-adic

2012 ID: 4991

October 7, 2012

Pope Benedict XVI declares St. Hildegard of Bingen Doctor of the Church - fourth woman Doctor

ID: 4991

👤 St. Hildegard of Bingen

📍 Rome

women Benedict XVI Doctor of the Church Hildegard of Bingen

Rome

2012 ID: 4992

October 7, 2012

Pope Benedict XVI declares St. John of Ávila Doctor of the Church - master of spiritual direction

ID: 4992

👤 St. John of Ávila

📍 Rome

Benedict XVI Doctor of the Church John of Ávila

Rome

2013 ID: 324

Peter Whidden teaches himself programming from YouTube in high school

ID: 324

👤 Peter Whidden

education programming self-taught

2013 ID: 325

Peter Whidden creates particle simulator as senior project in high school using Java

ID: 325

👤 Peter Whidden

particle simulation high school Java programming

2013 ID: 3237

Systematic Physician Influence Campaign begins: 592,000 payments totaling $20 million to physicians prescribing stimulants (2013-2018)

ID: 3237

influence stimulants pharmaceuticals physicians payments

2013 ID: 3238

Space Medicine Association retires Strughold Award due to Nazi past

ID: 3238

Nazi retirement award Strughold space medicine

2013 ID: 3239

Global abortion statistics: 1.7 billion surgical and chemical abortions (1973-2013)

ID: 3239

statistics deaths global abortion 1973-2013

2013 ID: 3240

Euromaidan protests begin - German political foundations provide training and funding

ID: 3240

Germany Ukraine funding Euromaidan protests

2013 ID: 3241

Victoria Nuland orchestrates Ukrainian government selection

ID: 3241

coup Ukraine orchestration neoconservative Nuland

2013 ID: 3242

Bolivia expels USAID for 'manipulating social movements'

ID: 3242

manipulation USAID expulsion Bolivia social movements

2013 ID: 3243

BOUNDLESS INFORMANT: System for analyzing global surveillance data becomes operational

ID: 3243

data analysis NSA surveillance operational BOUNDLESS INFORMANT

2013 ID: 3244

First Snowden revelations - NSA collecting Verizon phone records

ID: 3244

revelation NSA phone records Snowden Verizon

2013 ID: 3245

PRISM program revealed - forcing tech companies to hand over data

ID: 3245

NSA PRISM data collection tech companies exposed

2013 ID: 3246

Snowden identified as source

ID: 3246

NSA whistleblower Snowden identified source

2013 ID: 3247

NSA collecting 5 billion mobile phone location records daily, stored in FASCIA database

ID: 3247

NSA mobile phones location FASCIA 5 billion

2013 ID: 3248

H5N1 experiments resumed under new U.S. oversight rules after voluntary moratorium

ID: 3248

oversight gain of function H5N1 resumed moratorium end

2013 ID: 3249

Fouchier, Kawaoka and 20 co-authors in Nature call for gain-of-function research on H7N9 viruses

ID: 3249

gain of function Fouchier Kawaoka Nature H7N9

2013 ID: 3250

FASB and International Accounting Standards Board issue converged revenue recognition standard

ID: 3250

accounting FASB convergence IASB revenue recognition

2013 ID: 3251

Yitang Zhang proves bounded gaps between primes - breakthrough on twin prime conjecture

ID: 3251

mathematics primes breakthrough bounded gaps Zhang

2013 ID: 3252

3D printing filaments using advanced polymers become commercially mainstream

ID: 3252

polymers commercialization 3D printing filaments mainstream

2013 ID: 3253

Self-healing concrete using bacteria becomes commercially available

ID: 3253

innovation materials bacteria concrete self-healing

2013 ID: 3254

Modern research confirms vitamin C 'extraordinarily sensitive to killing' tuberculosis bacteria

ID: 3254

discovery research tuberculosis treatment vitamin C

2013 ID: 3255

Pope Francis elected - first Jesuit pope - 'Who am I to judge?' - confusion begins

ID: 3255

confusion Holy Face Pope Francis Jesuit devotions

2013 ID: 4520

TransE embeddings - relations as vector translations, enabling King - Man + Woman = Queen

ID: 4520

machine learning embeddings knowledge graphs TransE

2013 ID: 4526

CLARITY technique makes biological tissue transparent while preserving structure - entire brains become see-through

ID: 4526

neuroscience imaging CLARITY tissue clearing microscopy

2013 ID: 4530

Homotopy Type Theory and Univalence Axiom - equality of types IS equivalence, solving 40-year problem

ID: 4530

mathematics type theory foundations homotopy univalence

2013 ID: 4534

Zhang's bounded gaps theorem - infinitely many prime pairs less than 70 million apart

ID: 4534

mathematics number theory primes Zhang twin primes

2013 ID: 3233

February 28, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI resigns due to advanced age, becoming Pope Emeritus - first pope to resign in 600 years

ID: 3233

papacy Catholic resignation historic Pope Benedict XVI

2013 ID: 3234

March 13, 2013

Pope Francis elected as first Jesuit pope, first from Americas, taking name of St. Francis

ID: 3234

election Catholic Pope Francis Jesuit Americas

2013 ID: 3235

June 29, 2013

Pope Francis issues 'Lumen Fidei' completing Benedict XVI's trilogy on faith

ID: 3235

Catholic encyclical Pope Francis faith Benedict XVI

2013 ID: 3236

November 24, 2013

Pope Francis issues 'Evangelii Gaudium' on evangelization - 'How I would like a Church which is poor and for the poor!'

ID: 3236

Catholic poor Pope Francis evangelization social justice

2014 ID: 326

Peter Whidden begins college and starts working on larger scale cosmological simulations

ID: 326

👤 Peter Whidden

cosmology particle simulation college

2014 ID: 3256

Annie Jacobsen publishes detailed exposé of Operation Paperclip

ID: 3256

Nazi scientists Operation Paperclip book Jacobsen exposé

2014 ID: 3257

Maidan coup succeeds - openly Nazi groups (Right Sector, Svoboda) gain power

ID: 3257

coup Ukraine Maidan Nazi groups Right Sector

2014 ID: 3258

Crimea referendum - provides justification for permanent US-Russian antagonism

ID: 3258

Russia US Crimea referendum antagonism

2014 ID: 3259

Azov Battalion formed with open Nazi symbols - receives Western training and weapons

ID: 3259

Ukraine Nazi formation Azov Battalion symbols

2014 ID: 3260

Azov Battalion integrated into Ukrainian National Guard

ID: 3260

Ukraine Nazi Azov National Guard integration

2014 ID: 3261

John McCain appears on stage with Ukrainian Nazi leaders

ID: 3261

Ukraine Nazi support McCain leaders

2014 ID: 3262

Associated Press exposes ZunZuneo program revealing USAID/OTI connection to CIA-style Phoenix operations

ID: 3262

CIA USAID ZunZuneo Cuba exposé

2014 ID: 3263

EcoHealth Alliance receives $3.7 million NIH grant for bat coronavirus research with $600,000 to Wuhan Institute

ID: 3263

NIH EcoHealth coronavirus Wuhan grant

2014 ID: 3264

Obama administration announces funding pause on gain-of-function experiments involving influenza, SARS, and MERS

ID: 3264

gain of function Obama moratorium pause viruses

2014 ID: 3265

Kawaoka argues ferret transmission studies demonstrate H5N1 pandemic potential, supports vaccine stockpiling

ID: 3265

pandemic vaccine H5N1 Kawaoka stockpiling

2014 ID: 3266

Kawaoka: HHS approved our H5N1 research after weighing risks against benefits

ID: 3266

research approval H5N1 Kawaoka HHS

2014 ID: 3267

Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) model introduced requiring banks to recognize loan losses earlier

ID: 3267

banking accounting CECL credit losses forward-looking

2014 ID: 3268

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) developed using mathematical game theory

ID: 3268

neural networks game theory AI GANs content creation

2014 ID: 3269

Fields Medal awarded for breakthrough in discrete mathematics

ID: 3269

mathematics breakthrough award Fields Medal discrete

2014 ID: 3270

Manjul Bhargava develops new techniques in number theory

ID: 3270

mathematics arithmetic number theory Bhargava composition laws

2014 ID: 4531

Stan's NUTS (No-U-Turn Sampler) - automatically tunes Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for 1000x faster convergence

ID: 4531

statistics MCMC Stan Bayesian sampling

2015 ID: 3271

Minsk II Agreements - German mediation ensures continued conflict

ID: 3271

Germany Russia Ukraine Minsk II mediation

2015 ID: 3272

Refugee crisis peaks - destabilizes European nation-states while strengthening EU centralization

ID: 3272

Europe EU refugee crisis centralization destabilization

2015 ID: 3273

Greek bailout crisis - Germany leads tough negotiations under Merkel

ID: 3273

Germany Greece negotiations Merkel bailout

2015 ID: 3274

USA Freedom Act - Reformed Section 215, ended bulk phone metadata collection

ID: 3274

reform NSA metadata Section 215 USA Freedom Act

2015 ID: 3275

Section 215 Bulk Collection Ended - NSA stopped bulk telephone metadata collection

ID: 3275

NSA metadata Section 215 bulk collection ended

2015 ID: 3276

Ralph Baric, Shi Zhengli and others publish in Nature Medicine on SARS-like bat coronaviruses, creating chimeric viruses with NIH funding

ID: 3276

coronavirus chimeric Baric Shi Zhengli Nature Medicine

2015 ID: 3278

First 5G trials begin

ID: 3278

beginning wireless telecommunications 5G trials

2015 ID: 3280

New lease accounting standards issued (ASC 842) requiring most leases on balance sheets

ID: 3280

accounting standards leases ASC 842 balance sheet

2015 ID: 3281

AlphaGo defeats world Go champion using mathematical deep learning

ID: 3281

AI deep learning AlphaGo Go DeepMind

2015 ID: 3282

Dow and DuPont announce merger, creating DowDuPont (later split into three companies)

ID: 3282

merger DuPont chemicals Dow DowDuPont

2015 ID: 3283

Transparent wood composites begin limited commercial production

ID: 3283

innovation materials commercialization transparent wood composites

2015 ID: 4521

IPFS launched - content-addressed permanent web solving link rot through distributed hosting

ID: 4521

web distributed systems IPFS content addressing permanence

2015 ID: 4538

Environmental DNA (eDNA) detects all species from water samples - 1000x more efficient than surveys

ID: 4538

ecology DNA monitoring biodiversity eDNA

2015 ID: 4993

April 12, 2015

Pope Francis declares St. Gregory of Narek Doctor of the Church - first Armenian Doctor

ID: 4993

👤 St. Gregory of Narek

📍 Rome

Doctor of the Church Gregory of Narek Armenian Francis

Rome

2015 ID: 3277

May 24, 2015

Pope Francis publishes 'Laudato Si'' encyclical on ecology and climate change

ID: 3277

ecology encyclical Pope Francis climate change Laudato Si

2015 ID: 3279

June 2015

Obama White House illuminated in LGBTQ rainbow colors for Obergefell decision redefining marriage

ID: 3279

marriage White House LGBTQ rainbow Obergefell

2016 ID: 327

Peter Whidden collaborates with Alex Miller (Space Filler) on art installation for building exterior

ID: 327

👤 Peter Whidden, Alex Miller

art collaboration ecosystem simulation

2016 ID: 3285

Brexit referendum - removes primary opponent to German EU dominance

ID: 3285

Germany UK EU referendum Brexit

2016 ID: 3286

Donald Trump election - German-influenced 'Russiagate' narrative begins

ID: 3286

election Germany Trump Russiagate narrative

2016 ID: 3287

NIH sends letter to EcoHealth Alliance confirming proposed research not gain-of-function under NIH definitions

ID: 3287

letter confirmation NIH gain of function EcoHealth

2016 ID: 3289

'Two-spirit' becomes one of 31 official gender identity options in New York City

ID: 3289

gender two-spirit New York City 31 options identity

2016 ID: 3290

Alice von Hildebrand interview: Bella Dodd recruited 1,100 men without faith or morals into seminaries

ID: 3290

Catholic infiltration Bella Dodd communists von Hildebrand

2016 ID: 3291

Revenue recognition standard (ASC 606) implementation begins - fundamentally changing how companies record sales

ID: 3291

accounting standards implementation revenue recognition ASC 606

2016 ID: 3292

LIGO detects gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's 1915 mathematical equations

ID: 3292

physics detection Einstein LIGO gravitational waves

2016 ID: 3293

DeepMind's AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol using mathematical reinforcement learning

ID: 3293

AI AlphaGo Go DeepMind Lee Sedol

2016 ID: 3294

Paris Climate Agreement drives investment in sustainable chemistry and materials

ID: 3294

chemistry materials sustainable Paris Agreement climate

2016 ID: 3295

Year of Mercy - Divine Mercy spreads globally

ID: 3295

devotion Catholic global Divine Mercy Year of Mercy

2016 ID: 4518

Differential Dataflow - incremental recursive queries with millisecond updates on billion-edge graphs

ID: 4518

databases dataflow incremental computation graph processing

2016 ID: 4528

Time crystals created - matter that breaks time-translation symmetry, repeating in time not space

ID: 4528

physics quantum time crystals symmetry breaking perpetual motion

2016 ID: 4536

3D acoustic holograms can levitate and manipulate objects along paths using sound alone

ID: 4536

levitation physics manipulation acoustics holograms

2016 ID: 3284

March 19, 2016

Pope Francis issues 'Amoris Laetitia' on family life and pastoral care

ID: 3284

Catholic family Pope Francis Amoris Laetitia pastoral care

2016 ID: 3288

June 2016

White House releases two fact sheets detailing Obama's vast efforts to promote LGBT rights

ID: 3288

promotion Obama White House LGBTQ fact sheets

2016 ID: 3296

September 4, 2016

Mother Teresa canonized - Model of charity without compromise - Holy Face devotion central

ID: 3296

charity canonization Catholic Holy Face Mother Teresa

2017 ID: 3297

German Foreign Ministry increases funding to Ukrainian Nazi groups

ID: 3297

Germany Ukraine Foreign Ministry funding Nazi groups

2017 ID: 3298

AfD enters German Parliament - controlled opposition maintains democratic legitimacy

ID: 3298

Parliament politics Germany AfD controlled opposition

2017 ID: 3299

NIH lifts 3-year moratorium on gain-of-function research, establishes HHS P3CO framework

ID: 3299

NIH gain of function moratorium lifted P3CO

2017 ID: 3300

Facebook lists 71 gender options

ID: 3300

Facebook social media gender identity 71 options

2017 ID: 3302

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act significantly changes corporate tax accounting

ID: 3302

accounting international corporate tax Tax Cuts and Jobs Act depreciation

2017 ID: 3303

Transformer architecture revolutionizes natural language processing with attention mechanisms

ID: 3303

architecture AI natural language Transformer attention

2017 ID: 3304

ChemChina acquires Syngenta for $43 billion, largest Chinese acquisition of foreign company

ID: 3304

agriculture ChemChina Syngenta acquisition $43 billion

2017 ID: 3305

Hempcrete (hemp-lime composite) gains commercial acceptance as building material

ID: 3305

construction sustainable hempcrete hemp building materials

2017 ID: 3306

Scientists on EcoHealth grant test genetically engineered coronaviruses on mice with human cell receptors at Wuhan (2017-2019)

ID: 3306

EcoHealth coronavirus Wuhan mice human receptors

2017 ID: 4527

Muon tomography discovers hidden chambers in Great Pyramid using cosmic ray particles

ID: 4527

physics archaeology pyramids imaging muons

2017 ID: 4540

Tree-sitter incremental parsing - parse million-line files in milliseconds, reparse only changes

ID: 4540

programming parsing compilers tree-sitter incremental

2017 ID: 3301

September 6, 2017

Kate Millett dies in Paris of massive heart attack, week before 83rd birthday

ID: 3301

death Paris Kate Millett feminist heart attack

2018 ID: 3307

Pope Francis requests recitation of St. Michael Prayer for Church's protection

ID: 3307

Church Catholic St. Michael Prayer Pope Francis protection

2018 ID: 3308

Skripal poisoning - German chemical weapons expertise suspected

ID: 3308

Germany Russia chemical weapons Skripal poisoning

2018 ID: 3309

Azov Battalion receives advanced Western weapons systems

ID: 3309

Ukraine Azov Battalion weapons Western advanced

2018 ID: 3310

Large-scale 5G network testing intensifies globally

ID: 3310

networks global telecommunications testing 5G

2018 ID: 3311

Revenue recognition standard becomes effective for public companies - massive system changes required

ID: 3311

accounting public companies effective revenue recognition ASC 606

2018 ID: 3312

Cambridge Analytica scandal reveals power of mathematical behavioral modeling in elections

ID: 3312

scandal Cambridge Analytica data elections behavioral modeling

2018 ID: 3313

Bayer completes acquisition of Monsanto for $63 billion

ID: 3313

agriculture Bayer Monsanto acquisition $63 billion

2018 ID: 3314

Mycelium-based building materials (mushroom insulation) enter commercial production

ID: 3314

insulation commercialization building materials mycelium mushroom

2018 ID: 3315

Pope Paul VI canonized - Humanae Vitae prophet vindicated - predicted contraception's destruction

ID: 3315

canonization contraception Humanae Vitae Pope Paul VI prophet

2018 ID: 4525

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene superconductivity - rotating graphene sheets by 1.1° creates superconductivity

ID: 4525

physics quantum graphene materials science superconductivity

2018 ID: 4532

JAX introduces vmap - automatic vectorization through composable function transformations

ID: 4532

machine learning functional JAX automatic differentiation vectorization

2018 ID: 4537

Speed breeding achieves 6 crop generations per year using 24-hour LED lighting

ID: 4537

agriculture biotechnology speed breeding LED crops

2019 ID: 3316

Volodymyr Zelensky elected - comedian president controllable by Nazi paramilitaries

ID: 3316

election Ukraine Zelensky comedian Nazi paramilitaries

2019 ID: 3317

Normandy Format talks fail - German mediation ensures continued conflict

ID: 3317

Germany failure Ukraine mediation Normandy Format

2019 ID: 3318

EcoHealth Alliance grant renewed for another five years

ID: 3318

NIH renewal EcoHealth coronavirus grant

2019 ID: 3319

EcoHealth Alliance attempts to upload Year 5 progress report to NIH system ahead of September deadline

ID: 3319

NIH report EcoHealth Year 5 upload

2019 ID: 3320

5G networks begin commercial deployment in multiple countries

ID: 3320

networks commercial telecommunications deployment 5G

2019 ID: 3321

BBC teaches children there are '100, if not more' gender options

ID: 3321

education children gender BBC 100 options

2019 ID: 3322

Lease accounting standard implementation for public companies - brings most leases onto balance sheets

ID: 3322

accounting public companies leases ASC 842 balance sheet

2019 ID: 3323

First image of black hole captured using mathematical signal processing - Event Horizon Telescope

ID: 3323

mathematics image astronomy black hole Event Horizon

2019 ID: 3324

Peter Scholze develops perfectoid spaces theory - revolutionizes arithmetic geometry

ID: 3324

mathematics arithmetic Scholze perfectoid spaces p-adic geometry

2019 ID: 3325

First room-temperature superconductor claims emerge (later disputed)

ID: 3325

disputed superconductor room temperature claims materials science

2019 ID: 3326

Commercial perovskite solar cells begin limited production

ID: 3326

materials energy commercialization perovskite solar cells

2019 ID: 3327

Recycled carbon fiber composites become commercially viable for construction

ID: 3327

construction sustainable composites carbon fiber recycled

2019 ID: 4524

Prime editing with CRISPR - insert, delete or replace DNA sequences up to 44 base pairs without donor templates

ID: 4524

DNA biotechnology CRISPR gene editing prime editing

2019 ID: 4539

TFHE enables gate bootstrapping in 13ms - compute on encrypted data indefinitely without noise

ID: 4539

computation cryptography privacy homomorphic encryption TFHE

2019 ID: 4541

Local-first software architecture - CRDTs + Merkle trees enable serverless collaboration

ID: 4541

collaboration distributed systems CRDTs local-first offline

2019 ID: 4561

Ramanujan Machine AI discovers new continued fractions and formulas for mathematical constants

ID: 4561

discovery mathematics continued fractions Ramanujan AI

2019 ID: 5662

CDC reports skunks as second-most common rabid wildlife in U.S. (after bats)

ID: 5662

📍 New York

public health CDC skunk rabies wildlife disease

New York

2019 ID: 5791

Cosmic Crisp apple released after 20 years development - attempt to create perfect apple, massive marketing campaign

ID: 5791

📍 New York

decades apple cosmic crisp breeding perfect apple

New York

2020s (126 events)

2020 ID: 328

Peter Whidden creates Pokemon AI reinforcement learning project and publishes YouTube video

ID: 328

👤 Peter Whidden

machine learning reinforcement learning Pokemon YouTube

2020 ID: 329

Peter Whidden creates website for collective streaming of Pokemon AI training runs

ID: 329

👤 Peter Whidden

machine learning web development community

2020 ID: 3329

COVID-19 crisis - German pharmaceutical companies profit while US economy suffers

ID: 3329

Germany pandemic economy pharmaceuticals COVID-19

2020 ID: 3330

Joe Biden election - returns German-influenced foreign policy establishment to power

ID: 3330

election Germany establishment foreign policy Biden

2020 ID: 3331

Germany holds thirteenth EU Council Presidency during COVID-19 pandemic

ID: 3331

Germany presidency EU COVID-19 thirteenth

2020 ID: 3332

Germany supports €750 billion Next Generation EU recovery fund

ID: 3332

Germany EU recovery fund 750 billion Next Generation

2020 ID: 3333

US federal court rules mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal and possibly unconstitutional

ID: 3333

unconstitutional surveillance Snowden illegal court ruling

2020 ID: 3334

Email reveals Fauci's aide briefed him on NIH's ties to Wuhan lab during early pandemic

ID: 3334

NIH Fauci Wuhan briefing email

2020 ID: 3335

NIH abruptly terminates EcoHealth Alliance grant amid pressure from Trump administration

ID: 3335

NIH terminated EcoHealth grant Trump

2020 ID: 3336

NIH sends EcoHealth Alliance letter offering to restore funding if certain conditions met

ID: 3336

restoration funding NIH EcoHealth conditions

2020 ID: 3337

NIH awards EcoHealth Alliance new $7.5 million grant over five years for emerging infectious diseases research

ID: 3337

NIH EcoHealth grant new $7.5 million

2020 ID: 3338

COVID-19 pandemic declared (Firstenberg correlates with 5G rollout timing)

ID: 3338

pandemic correlation WHO 5G COVID-19

2020 ID: 3339

COVID-19 pandemic analyzed using mathematical epidemiological models - 'Models are not crystal balls'

ID: 3339

COVID-19 mathematical models epidemiology predictions limitations

2020 ID: 3340

GPT-3 language model demonstrates mathematical artificial intelligence breakthrough

ID: 3340

neural networks AI breakthrough GPT-3 language model

2020 ID: 3341

Karim Adiprasito resolves g-conjecture for spheres using algebraic methods

ID: 3341

mathematics spheres algebraic Adiprasito g-conjecture

2020 ID: 3342

COVID-19 pandemic increases demand for disinfectants, pharmaceuticals, medical plastics, and advanced materials

ID: 3342

materials demand COVID-19 disinfectants PPE

2020 ID: 3343

mRNA vaccines commercialized using lipid nanoparticle delivery systems

ID: 3343

commercialization biotechnology COVID-19 mRNA vaccines lipid nanoparticles

2020 ID: 3344

Antimicrobial surfaces using copper and silver nanoparticles become widespread

ID: 3344

surfaces antimicrobial copper silver nanoparticles

2020 ID: 3345

Carlo Acutis beatified - first millennial - 'The Eucharist is my highway to heaven'

ID: 3345

Eucharist Catholic beatification Carlo Acutis millennial

2020 ID: 4529

Anyons confirmed experimentally - quasiparticles with fractional statistics existing only in 2D

ID: 4529

physics quantum computing anyons topological 2D systems

2020 ID: 4558

NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) encodes entire scenes as neural networks - photorealistic from sparse photos

ID: 4558

computer graphics neural networks rendering NeRF 3D reconstruction

2020 ID: 3328

October 3, 2020

Pope Francis issues 'Fratelli Tutti' on fraternity and social friendship

ID: 3328

encyclical Pope Francis Fratelli Tutti fraternity social friendship

2021 ID: 330

Peter Whidden develops Shader Park, a JavaScript library for interactive shaders

ID: 330

👤 Peter Whidden

computer graphics JavaScript open source

2021 ID: 331

Peter Whidden works on neural cellular automata machine learning research

ID: 331

👤 Peter Whidden

machine learning cellular automata neural networks

2021 ID: 3346

Nord Stream 2 pipeline near completion despite US opposition

ID: 3346

Germany Russia US opposition Nord Stream 2 pipeline

2021 ID: 3347

Russian ultimatum on NATO expansion - German strategy forces US-Russian crisis

ID: 3347

crisis Germany Russia NATO ultimatum

2021 ID: 3348

Fauci's Senate Testimony: 'NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan'

ID: 3348

NIH Senate gain of function Fauci Wuhan

2021 ID: 3349

Heated exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci at Senate hearing - accusations of lying to Congress

ID: 3349

confrontation Senate Fauci Rand Paul lying

2021 ID: 3350

Documents obtained by The Intercept reveal NIH-funded research at Wuhan met gain-of-function definition

ID: 3350

documents NIH gain of function Wuhan The Intercept

2021 ID: 3351

NIH acknowledges to Congress that EcoHealth Alliance had not reported experimental findings showing increased viral growth

ID: 3351

Congress NIH EcoHealth viral growth acknowledgment

2021 ID: 3352

Fauci argues 'gain of function' is 'very nebulous term' with imprecise definition

ID: 3352

definition gain of function Fauci nebulous semantic

2021 ID: 3353

Continued 5G expansion despite pandemic

ID: 3353

expansion pandemic telecommunications 5G continued

2021 ID: 3354

mRNA vaccines developed using mathematical protein folding predictions - rapid vaccine development

ID: 3354

mathematics biotechnology mRNA vaccines protein folding rapid development

2021 ID: 3355

DeepMind's AlphaFold solves protein folding using mathematical deep learning - 50-year-old problem solved

ID: 3355

AI breakthrough DeepMind protein folding AlphaFold

2021 ID: 3356

June Huh proves log-concavity conjecture using algebraic geometry

ID: 3356

mathematics combinatorics algebraic geometry June Huh log-concavity

2021 ID: 3357

Many chemical companies announce net-zero carbon emission targets for 2050

ID: 3357

chemicals sustainability net-zero carbon emissions 2050

2021 ID: 3358

Solid-state batteries enter limited commercial production for specialized applications

ID: 3358

technology commercialization energy storage solid-state batteries specialized

2021 ID: 3359

Bio-based concrete additives from agricultural waste become commercially available

ID: 3359

materials concrete sustainable bio-based agricultural waste

2021 ID: 4543

Google achieves time crystal in quantum computer - perpetual motion without energy input confirmed

ID: 4543

physics Google quantum computing time crystals symmetry breaking

2022 ID: 3360

Pope Francis hospitalized in March with respiratory infection, undergoes abdominal surgery in June

ID: 3360

Pope Francis health hospitalization respiratory abdominal surgery

2022 ID: 3361

German Leopard tank delivery to Ukraine announced

ID: 3361

Germany Ukraine weapons Leopard tanks delivery

2022 ID: 3362

Wagner mutiny in Russia - German intelligence connections suspected

ID: 3362

Germany Russia Wagner intelligence mutiny

2022 ID: 3363

$100+ billion US aid to Ukraine approved - German arms industry major beneficiary

ID: 3363

Germany Ukraine US aid $100 billion arms industry

2022 ID: 3364

Unified Patent Court begins operations

ID: 3364

patents operations intellectual property EU Unified Patent Court

2022 ID: 3365

Scholz delivers Prague speech outlining German leadership in European integration

ID: 3365

Germany EU integration Scholz Prague

2022 ID: 3366

Sen. Roger Marshall questions Fauci about DARPA rejecting research later funded by NIAID

ID: 3366

NIAID gain of function Fauci Roger Marshall DARPA

2022 ID: 3367

NIH terminates subaward portion of EcoHealth's grant funding Wuhan Institute after lab refuses to provide records

ID: 3367

NIH terminated EcoHealth Wuhan subaward

2022 ID: 3368

5G networks expand to rural areas

ID: 3368

expansion networks telecommunications 5G rural

2022 ID: 3369

ChatGPT launched using mathematical large language models - AI becomes accessible to general public

ID: 3369

launch AI language model ChatGPT OpenAI

2022 ID: 3370

DALL-E 2 and Midjourney enable mathematical text-to-image generation

ID: 3370

art AI DALL-E 2 Midjourney text-to-image

2022 ID: 3371

Breakthrough in nuclear fusion at National Ignition Facility advances materials science

ID: 3371

energy breakthrough materials science nuclear fusion NIF

2022 ID: 3372

Lab-grown meat products first commercialized using advanced biomaterials

ID: 3372

technology food commercialization lab-grown meat biomaterials

2022 ID: 3373

3D-printed concrete structures become commercially viable for construction

ID: 3373

construction commercial concrete 3D printing viable

2022 ID: 3374

Persecution intensifies worldwide - Nicaragua imprisons bishops - China controls Church

ID: 3374

China persecution Nicaragua bishops martyrs

2022 ID: 4994

January 21, 2022

Pope Francis declares St. Irenaeus Doctor of the Church with title 'Doctor of Unity'

ID: 4994

👤 St. Irenaeus of Lyon

📍 Rome

unity Doctor of the Church Irenaeus Francis

Rome

2023 ID: 332

Peter Whidden begins development of Mote ecosystem simulation engine

ID: 332

👤 Peter Whidden

ecosystem simulation GPU programming game development

2023 ID: 3375

Pope Francis hospitalized in March with respiratory infection, undergoes abdominal surgery in June

ID: 3375

Pope Francis health hospitalization respiratory abdominal surgery

2023 ID: 3376

German Leopard tank delivery to Ukraine announced

ID: 3376

Germany Ukraine weapons Leopard tanks delivery

2023 ID: 3377

Wagner mutiny in Russia - German intelligence connections suspected

ID: 3377

Germany Russia Wagner intelligence mutiny

2023 ID: 3378

$100+ billion US aid to Ukraine approved - German arms industry major beneficiary

ID: 3378

Germany Ukraine US aid $100 billion arms industry

2023 ID: 3379

Unified Patent Court begins operations

ID: 3379

patents operations intellectual property EU Unified Patent Court

2023 ID: 3380

Scholz delivers Prague speech outlining German leadership in European integration

ID: 3380

Germany EU integration Scholz Prague

2023 ID: 3381

HHS Inspector General releases 64-page report criticizing NIH's oversight of EcoHealth grant, recommends Wuhan debarment

ID: 3381

NIH oversight EcoHealth HHS Inspector General

2023 ID: 3382

SEC proposes comprehensive climate-related disclosure requirements for public companies

ID: 3382

SEC disclosure climate emissions reporting

2023 ID: 3383

GPT-4 demonstrates advanced mathematical reasoning capabilities

ID: 3383

mathematics reasoning AI OpenAI GPT-4

2023 ID: 3384

AI systems begin contributing to mathematical conjecture generation and pattern discovery

ID: 3384

discovery mathematics computation AI conjecture

2023 ID: 3385

Artificial intelligence integrated into chemical research, drug discovery, and materials design

ID: 3385

materials research chemicals AI drug discovery

2023 ID: 3386

Quantum dots first commercialized in consumer displays (TVs, monitors)

ID: 3386

commercialization quantum dots displays TVs monitors

2023 ID: 3387

Phase change materials for building temperature regulation become commercially mainstream

ID: 3387

temperature regulation buildings mainstream phase change materials

2023 ID: 4507

Einstein problem solved - single aperiodic 'hat' tile discovered by David Smith et al., ending 60-year quest

ID: 4507

mathematics breakthrough tilings aperiodic Einstein problem

2023 ID: 4562

H-Net and similar architectures discovered by AI - 1,773 autonomous experiments surpass human designers

ID: 4562

discovery machine learning automation AI architecture search

2024 ID: 333

Peter Whidden implements GPU-based physics engine for Mote using Rust and WebGPU

ID: 333

👤 Peter Whidden

GPU programming Rust WebGPU physics simulation

2024 ID: 334

Mano Adupta joins Mote project to develop graphing and visualization features

ID: 334

👤 Peter Whidden, Mano Adupta

collaboration data visualization student work

2024 ID: 335

Peter Whidden presents Mote project at Reker Center public talk

ID: 335

👤 Peter Whidden

📍 Reker Center

presentation public talk demonstration

Reker Center

2024 ID: 336

Mote achieves cross-platform compatibility running on phones, tablets, laptops and desktops

ID: 336

👤 Peter Whidden

cross-platform mobile compatibility

2024 ID: 337

Mote implements Python library for automated experiments and data extraction

ID: 337

👤 Peter Whidden

Python automation research tools

2024 ID: 338

Mote implements real-time ecosystem with plants performing photosynthesis, herbivores, carnivores, and decomposers

ID: 338

👤 Peter Whidden

ecosystem biology simulation real-time

2024 ID: 339

Mote achieves stability for hundreds of millions of simulation steps (months of real-world time)

ID: 339

👤 Peter Whidden

stability long-term simulation performance

2024 ID: 340

Mote implements gas diffusion system for oxygen and CO2 distribution in environment

ID: 340

👤 Peter Whidden

gas simulation diffusion chemistry

2024 ID: 341

Mote adds scent-based navigation system for creatures to find food

ID: 341

👤 Peter Whidden

navigation AI behavior scent simulation

2024 ID: 342

Mote implements custom GPU memory allocator for dynamic entity creation and deletion

ID: 342

👤 Peter Whidden

GPU programming memory management optimization

2024 ID: 343

Mote achieves 15+ GPU compute dispatches per frame for simulation

ID: 343

👤 Peter Whidden

performance GPU optimization compute shaders

2024 ID: 344

Mote implements over 100 composable behavior components for entities

ID: 344

👤 Peter Whidden

modular design behavior system composability

2024 ID: 345

Mote adds interactive features allowing users to control entities and build structures

ID: 345

👤 Peter Whidden

interactivity user control sandbox

2024 ID: 346

Mote implements fluid dynamics and pressure simulation

ID: 346

👤 Peter Whidden

fluid dynamics physics emergent behavior

2024 ID: 347

Mote adds sound system with thousands of simultaneous audio triggers

ID: 347

👤 Peter Whidden

audio sound design immersion

2024 ID: 348

Mote implements random organism generation with billions of possible combinations

ID: 348

👤 Peter Whidden

procedural generation randomization diversity

2024 ID: 349

Mote demonstrates predator-prey population dynamics emerging from simulation

ID: 349

👤 Peter Whidden

emergent behavior population dynamics ecology

2024 ID: 350

Mote adopts 'No Facades' design principle - focusing on functional simulation over graphics

ID: 350

👤 Peter Whidden

design philosophy minimalism function over form

2024 ID: 351

Mote implements 'Decentralized Dynamics' - no top-down control of organisms

ID: 351

👤 Peter Whidden

emergent behavior design philosophy decentralization

2024 ID: 352

Mote adopts 'All Entities are Players' principle - NPCs have same capabilities as players

ID: 352

👤 Peter Whidden

design philosophy equality AI capabilities

2024 ID: 353

Mote implements 'Diegetic Interfaces' - UI elements exist within the world

ID: 353

👤 Peter Whidden

design philosophy immersive UI world interaction

2024 ID: 354

Peter Whidden cites Factorio as inspiration for complex emergent systems

ID: 354

👤 Peter Whidden

inspiration game design complexity

2024 ID: 355

Peter Whidden cites Kerbal Space Program as inspiration for physics-based learning

ID: 355

👤 Peter Whidden

physics inspiration educational gaming

2024 ID: 356

Peter Whidden cites Minecraft Redstone as inspiration for user creativity

ID: 356

👤 Peter Whidden

inspiration creativity user-generated content

2024 ID: 357

Peter Whidden cites Powder Toy as early influence from chemistry class

ID: 357

👤 Peter Whidden

chemistry inspiration falling sand games

2024 ID: 358

Mote sets goal to make biology and AI accessible like other games did for their domains

ID: 358

👤 Peter Whidden

education mission accessibility

2024 ID: 359

Mote designed to bridge gap between games and research tools

ID: 359

👤 Peter Whidden

research tools accessibility gaming

2024 ID: 3389

Second anniversary of conflict - permanent US-Russian antagonism achieved

ID: 3389

conflict Ukraine anniversary US-Russia permanent antagonism

2024 ID: 3390

Ukrainian Nazi symbols and ideology completely normalized in Western media and policy

ID: 3390

Ukraine ideology Nazi symbols normalized Western media

2024 ID: 3391

Romania becomes 18th country to join Unified Patent Court

ID: 3391

patents EU Unified Patent Court Romania 18th country

2024 ID: 3392

System now covers 80% of EU GDP - Germany's long-term vision realized

ID: 3392

vision Germany Unified Patent Court EU GDP 80%

2024 ID: 3393

EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak testifies before House Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic

ID: 3393

testimony EcoHealth coronavirus Daszak House

2024 ID: 3394

HHS suspends all federal funding to EcoHealth Alliance and proposes debarment

ID: 3394

funding EcoHealth HHS suspended debarment

2024 ID: 3395

Dr. Fauci testifies before House Select Subcommittee, maintains position that NIH never funded gain-of-function in Wuhan

ID: 3395

testimony gain of function Fauci Wuhan House

2024 ID: 3396

Fauci explains operational definition of gain-of-function used when responding to Congress

ID: 3396

definition gain of function operational Fauci congressional

2024 ID: 3397

Artificial intelligence and machine learning begin transforming audit processes through automated analysis

ID: 3397

automation accounting data analysis auditing AI

2024 ID: 3398

Advanced AI systems begin contributing to mathematical research and discovering new theorems

ID: 3398

discovery mathematics research AI theorems

2024 ID: 3399

Quantum computing achieves mathematical supremacy in specific algorithms

ID: 3399

supremacy mathematics breakthrough algorithms quantum computing

2024 ID: 3400

Quantum algorithms achieve exponential speedup for specific number theory problems

ID: 3400

computation number theory quantum algorithms exponential speedup

2024 ID: 3401

Several major chemical companies begin commercial production of chemicals from captured carbon dioxide

ID: 3401

capture chemicals production commercialization carbon dioxide

2024 ID: 3402

Advanced solid-state batteries commercialized for electric vehicles by select manufacturers

ID: 3402

technology energy commercialization solid-state batteries electric vehicles

2024 ID: 3403

Bio-based plastics achieve price parity with petroleum-based plastics in select applications

ID: 3403

materials petroleum sustainable bio-based plastics price parity

2024 ID: 3404

Living building materials using engineered bacteria enter commercial production

ID: 3404

innovation buildings commercialization bacteria living materials

2024 ID: 3388

October 24, 2024

Pope Francis issues 'Dilexit Nos' on the Heart of Jesus Christ - 'He loved us'

ID: 3388

Catholic encyclical Pope Francis Dilexit Nos Heart of Jesus

2025 ID: 3405

February 14, 2025

Pope Francis enters Gemelli Hospital in Rome with bronchitis and bilateral pneumonia

ID: 3405

pneumonia Pope Francis hospitalization Gemelli bronchitis

2025 ID: 3406

March 23, 2025

Pope Francis discharged after 38-day hospitalization, described as critically ill during stay

ID: 3406

Pope Francis discharge hospitalization critically ill 38 days

2025 ID: 3407

April 20, 2025

Pope Francis makes final public appearance at Easter Sunday Mass - calls for Gaza ceasefire in final message

ID: 3407

Pope Francis final Easter public appearance Gaza

2025 ID: 3408

April 21, 2025

Pope Francis dies at 7:35 AM CEST at Domus Sanctae Marthae from cerebral stroke and cardiac arrest

ID: 3408

death Pope Francis stroke cardiac arrest Easter Monday

2025 ID: 3409

April 22, 2025

Pope Francis lies in state at St. Peter's Basilica (April 22-25), over 250,000 mourners visit

ID: 3409

Pope Francis lying in state St. Peter's mourners 250000

2025 ID: 3410

April 26, 2025

Pope Francis Requiem Mass celebrated, attended by world leaders including Presidents Trump and Biden

ID: 3410

funeral Pope Francis Trump Biden Requiem Mass

2025 ID: 3411

April 26, 2025

Pope Francis buried at Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica - first pope buried outside Vatican since Leo XIII in 1903

ID: 3411

burial Leo XIII Pope Francis Santa Maria Maggiore outside Vatican

2025 ID: 3412

May 7, 2025

Papal conclave begins with 133 cardinal electors sequestered in Sistine Chapel

ID: 3412

election begins papal conclave 133 electors Sistine Chapel

2025 ID: 3413

May 8, 2025

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost elected 267th Pope after 4 rounds of voting - white smoke appears

ID: 3413

election Pope Leo XIV Prevost white smoke 267th pope

2025 ID: 3414

May 8, 2025

Pope Leo XIV becomes first American pope and first from Augustinian order in Church history

ID: 3414

Catholic historic Pope Leo XIV first American Augustinian

2025 ID: 3415

May 8, 2025

Pope Leo XIV appears on St. Peter's balcony at 7:30 PM - 'Peace be with all of you!' - calls for missionary church

ID: 3415

peace missionary Pope Leo XIV first appearance balcony