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What am I thankful for this year? Amazing scientific discoveries.

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    EarlyWords
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    Our history YouTube channel has become more of a technical channel in order to keep pace with all the new discoveries and developments made in archaeology and anthropology. This is absolutely a...

    Our history YouTube channel has become more of a technical channel in order to keep pace with all the new discoveries and developments made in archaeology and anthropology. This is absolutely a golden age of technologies like paleogenomics, LiDAR, and isotope sampling. What science has added just in the last decade to the understanding of the recent and distant past is nothing short of revolutionary.

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      What’s the name of your channel? I would like to take a look at some of your videos.

      What’s the name of your channel? I would like to take a look at some of your videos.

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      1. EarlyWords
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        Study of Antiquity & the Middle Ages. The episodes from the last couple years in particular do more to cover the "science" of history. Our next 47 minute episode on Neolithic Europe should be...

        Study of Antiquity & the Middle Ages. The episodes from the last couple years in particular do more to cover the "science" of history.

        Our next 47 minute episode on Neolithic Europe should be going live any minute now...

        Thanks for your interest! Hope you enjoy it.

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    Some useful scientific advancements made this year which will probably have a meaningful positive impact on human life. Things to be thankful for.

    Some useful scientific advancements made this year which will probably have a meaningful positive impact on human life. Things to be thankful for.

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  3. EgoEimi
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    It's heartening to know that there are more scientists and engineers alive than there ever were in history put together. News of politics, inflation, pop culture, and other human drama can...

    It's heartening to know that there are more scientists and engineers alive than there ever were in history put together.

    More likely, the event that’s judged most transformative will be some scientific or technological advance that only a handful of people know about right now — because that’s how things almost always go. The first time the word “transistor” appeared in print was in an article in The New York Times in 1948, on Page 46, following a report on two new radio shows, “Mr. Tutt” and “Our Miss Brooks.” I think we can agree that the transistor has had more impact on our daily lives in the 75 years since than either of those bits of entertainment.

    News of politics, inflation, pop culture, and other human drama can distract us from the fact that we live at a most glorious inflection point of humanity, as we advance exponentially faster in every domain than ever before. It may not appear so, but we're actually at the most enlightened point in human history yet. I think that the next equally glorious points are: interplanetary civilization, and then extrasolar civilization.

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