The 10 Greatest Scientific Achievements of 2018

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December is the month of best-of lists, which is always a challenge — especially when you’re ranking the most influential scientific achievements of the year. Who’s to say a discovery of an ancient fossil is any better than the development of a new drug? Or that landing on an asteroid is any better than discovering spider milk? Alas, you have to draw the line somewhere, and here’s where we drew ours. Check out our list of the top 10 greatest scientific achievements of 2018 below.

— Read on curiosity.com/topics/the-10-greatest-scientific-achievements-of-2018-curiosity/

2018 in review from a science perspective

Spend Now Tax Later

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It seems that governments all around the world are spending money they do not have. Businesses and personal debt has followed suit. Businesses can raise prices but that can be risky. Governments can print money to alleviate the short term pain.

In the long run, governments will have to come up with more revenue and the hunt for taxes begins. The carbon tax is the most insidious and regressive. Coming in a close second are pension taxes and social Security taxes. When politicians talk about the debt, the first words out of their mouths are taxes.

Why not talk about shrinking government down to an affordable size? That would hurt their power base, the government workers, their families, public unions, defense contractors, welfare recipients, lobbyists, and all the other crony capitalists.

It is all about power,  when they take away our money, they take away our power, and that is all by design.

Dow Recovers

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Dow soars 1,086 points, a single-day point record, as stocks roar back from a Christmas Eve shellacking

Stocks soared Wednesday, more than taking back losses suffered in the worst Christmas Eve session in Wall Street history, as the Dow surged more than 1,000 points. Analysts said stocks bounced back from extremely oversold conditions, with the sharp rebound still leaving major indexes nursing heavy losses for December and 2018. The Dow DJIA, +4.98% rose by around 1,086 points, or 5%, to end near 22,878, according to preliminary figures, while the S&P 500SPX, +4.96% advanced around 117 points, or 5%, to close near 2,468. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, +5.84% rose around 361 points, or 5.8%, to finish around 6,554. The Dow had dropped more than 600 points, or 2.9% in a holiday-shortened session on Monday, while the S&P 500 fell 2.7% and the Nasdaq lost 2.2%. On a percentage basis, gains for all three major indexes on Wednesday were the strongest since March 2009. The S&P, Dow and Nasdaq are each down more than 10% for December.

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