4 good things that happened in 2016
Dec. 31st, 2016 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dimity_blueYep, the year sucked but 4 good things happened.
Don't want to click? To sum up:
Peace in Colombia - after 50 years. (If you read one bit of that article, make it that one.)
Gene editing - foods and humans.
Malaria in Sri Lanka - has been eradicated.
Solar plane circumnavigation - Early one Monday morning, Solar Impulse 2 took off from Abu Dhabi airport on the start of a 35,000 km journey round the world; a journey powered by nothing but the sun.
Don't want to click? To sum up:
Peace in Colombia - after 50 years. (If you read one bit of that article, make it that one.)
Gene editing - foods and humans.
Malaria in Sri Lanka - has been eradicated.
Solar plane circumnavigation - Early one Monday morning, Solar Impulse 2 took off from Abu Dhabi airport on the start of a 35,000 km journey round the world; a journey powered by nothing but the sun.