By popular request (well, one request, anyway).
You can read all about the Breakthrough of the Year (and accompanying “Insights of the Decade” section) at Science‘s home page.
NOTE: Robert was neck-deep in all of this. Yes, like the other Administrators, he does have a job other than moderating MuseBlog.
Awesome! Robert, you’re so lucky that you get to work on these kinds of things and get paid for it!
It’s almost as much fun as moderating MuseBlog, and it pays a great deal better.
I wonder if a high school student is allowed to get the “Student” discount for Science. It says you need proof of full-time undergraduate or graduate studies. But all of the other categories are for professional scientists or teachers or researchers.
In any case, a fascinating collection of breakthroughs this year. I enjoyed the Youtube interview featuring our dear RoCoo (though I don’t seem to be able to find a link to said interview from the Science website.)
The videos can be found onScience YouTube channel: wwwAAASorg
Yay!
Here’s a cut up link to a youtube video:
youtube.com /watch?v=zcu5Mef3DM0
The quantum ground state was very, very interesting, but I was a little confused. If the oscillations occur in a piece of something, won’t what that something is determine how much energy is needed? I though that the photon was the smallest unit of energy.
On the subject of the synthetic genome in a bacteria: What are people’s opinions on Craig Venter?
Is exome sequencing cheaper than traditional sequencing (besides faster?) Is genomics? Sequencing seems like it could be super useful, but only once there’s enough data… which seems to come down to price.
(Yessss just being on college wifi grants me institution access to AAAS archives!)
WOW.
Now all comments that I read will be narrated in your voice. YAYAYAY
Ok, and another step toward the future where we’re all downloaded/ simulated on a giant quantum computer living at 90 years in a nanosecond.
♥ *joysqueals* ♥
I like the video!
i’ve heard your voice before but for some reason your voice in the video gave me really strong grant vibes. you’re not secretly related, are you?
Only when I have a cold. (I had a bad one when we made the video.)
aha, that’s why i didn’t notice it before.
OR MAYBE GRANT JUST ALWAYS HAS A COLD
This seems a fitting enough thread.
Robert, I’m sure you’ve heard about the “artificial leaf” that Daniel Nocera, Ph.D., and his team at MIT presented at the ACS conference. Do you have any thoughts on it? Or does anyone else, for that matter?