Comments on: What are the real top ten science stories of 2012? https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/31/what-are-the-real-top-ten-science-stories-of-2012/ Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: robert start, jr https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/31/what-are-the-real-top-ten-science-stories-of-2012/#comment-497120 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:37:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15196#comment-497120 You had better start reading about the Denisovans before you say there isnt enough information to theorize based on location, genetic fingerprint and world history.

]]> By: bks https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/31/what-are-the-real-top-ten-science-stories-of-2012/#comment-497119 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:02:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15196#comment-497119 It takes time for initial results to be understood in context. So your readers would be well-served by revisiting the top science stories of, say, 25 years ago: 1987. Here are a few to get started: Approval of AZT, Lovastatin & Prozac; Mitochondrial Eve; High temperature superconductors (whatever happened to them?); first conviction by DNA fingerprinting.

Did Science have a top-ten list at the end of 1987?

–bks

]]> By: Jeffrey https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/31/what-are-the-real-top-ten-science-stories-of-2012/#comment-497118 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 09:56:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15196#comment-497118 I think that large number is somewhere in the neighborhood of a googolplex, the reason being is : If I quit breathing (due in part to climate change) then all else is personally irrelevant.

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