Friday Nite Videos -- December 23, 2016
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Check out what Science's editors deemed the top results of 2016, including our Breakthrough of the Year!
It’s not enough to know the science (or history). You have to know the pseudoscience (or pseudohistory) inside and out. You have to know how science has been twisted, the studies that pseudoscientists will reference, and how they will misrepresent them. It takes a special skill set to combat pseudoscience and science denialism, and few academics have it.
Its complex politics and vibrant music have attracted the attention of the world. But Cuba, the largest island nation in the Caribbean, is also home to the unexpected. It’s a place of stunning contrasts: mysterious caves and bright boulevards, sweltering fields and cool forests, hard challenges and high energy.
A pioneer of computer science, Ada Lovelace created the very first computer program in the mid-1800s and also foresaw the digital future.
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