2013
ID: 324
Peter Whidden teaches himself programming from YouTube in high school
ID: 324
2013
ID: 325
Peter Whidden creates particle simulator as senior project in high school using Java
ID: 325
2013
ID: 3237
Systematic Physician Influence Campaign begins: 592,000 payments totaling $20 million to physicians prescribing stimulants (2013-2018)
ID: 3237
2013
ID: 3238
Space Medicine Association retires Strughold Award due to Nazi past
ID: 3238
2013
ID: 3239
Global abortion statistics: 1.7 billion surgical and chemical abortions (1973-2013)
ID: 3239
2013
ID: 3240
Euromaidan protests begin - German political foundations provide training and funding
ID: 3240
2013
ID: 3241
Victoria Nuland orchestrates Ukrainian government selection
ID: 3241
2013
ID: 3242
Bolivia expels USAID for 'manipulating social movements'
ID: 3242
2013
ID: 3243
BOUNDLESS INFORMANT: System for analyzing global surveillance data becomes operational
ID: 3243
2013
ID: 3244
First Snowden revelations - NSA collecting Verizon phone records
ID: 3244
2013
ID: 3245
PRISM program revealed - forcing tech companies to hand over data
ID: 3245
2013
ID: 3246
Snowden identified as source
ID: 3246
2013
ID: 3247
NSA collecting 5 billion mobile phone location records daily, stored in FASCIA database
ID: 3247
2013
ID: 3248
H5N1 experiments resumed under new U.S. oversight rules after voluntary moratorium
ID: 3248
2013
ID: 3249
Fouchier, Kawaoka and 20 co-authors in Nature call for gain-of-function research on H7N9 viruses
ID: 3249
2013
ID: 3250
FASB and International Accounting Standards Board issue converged revenue recognition standard
ID: 3250
2013
ID: 3251
Yitang Zhang proves bounded gaps between primes - breakthrough on twin prime conjecture
ID: 3251
2013
ID: 3252
3D printing filaments using advanced polymers become commercially mainstream
ID: 3252
2013
ID: 3253
Self-healing concrete using bacteria becomes commercially available
ID: 3253
2013
ID: 3254
Modern research confirms vitamin C 'extraordinarily sensitive to killing' tuberculosis bacteria
ID: 3254
2013
ID: 3255
Pope Francis elected - first Jesuit pope - 'Who am I to judge?' - confusion begins
ID: 3255
2013
ID: 4520
TransE embeddings - relations as vector translations, enabling King - Man + Woman = Queen
ID: 4520
2013
ID: 4526
CLARITY technique makes biological tissue transparent while preserving structure - entire brains become see-through
ID: 4526
2013
ID: 4530
Homotopy Type Theory and Univalence Axiom - equality of types IS equivalence, solving 40-year problem
ID: 4530
2013
ID: 4534
Zhang's bounded gaps theorem - infinitely many prime pairs less than 70 million apart
ID: 4534
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
2013
ID: 3234
March 13, 2013
Pope Francis elected as first Jesuit pope, first from Americas, taking name of St. Francis
ID: 3234
2013
ID: 3235
June 29, 2013
Pope Francis issues 'Lumen Fidei' completing Benedict XVI's trilogy on faith
ID: 3235
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