Productive year of 2013

I thought it would be fun to do a Chronos for the year of 2013. A lot of the times we live the year and don’t even realize that it had happened or realized how fast time went by. As I look back at this year it’s hard to believe that only a year passed by since it was 2013. There has been so many things that happened then that either surprised me or re-jogged my memory.

Arts and Culture: The 55th Annual Grammy Awards were presented at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 10, 2013. The band that won New Artist was Fun, Record of the Year went to Gotye and Kimbra’s Somebody that I Used to Know, and the Best Pop Solo Performance was given to Adele’s performance of “Set Fire to the the Rain.”
On February 24, 2013, the Academy Awards of 2012 was presented at the Kodak Theatre. For Best Picture Awards the top 9 movie nominees goes out to Armour, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings

Brave

Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty. The winner for this was Argo. The Best Animated Picture nominees were Brave, Frakenweenie, ParaNorman, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, and Wreck-It Ralph. The winner of this award was Brave.
The actor that one best actor in a leading role was Daniel Day-Lewis from Lincoln, and for female Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook.

Science, Technology, and Ideas: We had a quite productive year in Science and Technology in the year of 2013. In January 2nd, astronomers made a discovery that the Milky Way Galaxy contains at least one planet per star, which means there are 100-400 billion exoplanets. On January 3rd, physicists created a potassium-based quantum gas that can be manipulated by lasers and magnetic fields to reach negative temperatures. On February 5th the scientists at Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University developed the first 3D printer, which produced actually live stem cells. This invention was quite success, it let to so many other great inventions. On February 14 the University of Oxford engineers built an autonomous car, which allows itself to drive without an actual driver. It can be switched back to manual with a simple witch of a button. On February 20th NASA reported Kepler-37b to be the smallest exoplanet to ever be known, which is the size of Earth’s moon. On February 21 Cornell used the invention of the scientists at the Scotland University to create a living artificial ear from collagen and ear cell cultures with the 3D printer. On April 15, the Massachusetts General Hospital successfully used a kidney that was grown in the lab to use on a rat. It was such a breakthrough for the nascent field of regenerative medicine. Later that year, Japanese scientists were actually able to clone a completely healthy mouse just from the cells of one single drop of blood.

Social Change (issues of gender, race, class, immigration): Towards the of end of 2012 and beginning of 2013, a large crowd in San Fransico protest about same-sex marriage, a more progressive tax system, and to have stricter gun laws. In 2013 we had a lot of massacres, one being the movie theater massacre during a midnight premier of Batman in Colorado that made gun control an urgent issue.

War, Politics, and Nature: On January 21st President Barrack Obama began his second term. On February 11, Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from being head of of Vatican City state, effective the 28th of February. On November 1st the Thai start to protest.

Thai protest

There are so many things that happened in 2013 and I feel like that year really flew by so it was really interesting to go back and review and even learn a few extra things that happened last year.