There are moments in history that stand taller than the rest. These moments have molded Pasts into Futures, created greatness where none could be seen, announced evil, let it thrive, then documented its destruction. There are moments that have transformed the world, others that have fought to keep it the same. There are moments that have become a page, a chapter, an entirety of a textbook. We have killed to keep moments as often as we have fought to ignore them. Whether the story finds the mainstream of a big screen, or remains a secret, hidden forever, these Best-Of moments are what shape our world.
The romance of history lies in its ability to move - amazing that something defined by time can have so little trouble ignoring its limiting structure. Whether finding itself in the eternity filed under "Before Hi-Jacked!", or taking place in the exhilarating Post-Me era, History is the poster child for accomplishment - History is the highlight reel of existence.
Order, Belief, Value, Sex, Age; History impacts us no matter how we string together the whos, the whats, and the hows. And the importance, well that type of question is all kinds of fun, you pick and choose... Agriculture, Alexander the Great, Jesus of Nazareth, Pax Romana, Muhammad, the Crusades, Genghis Khan, the Renaissance, Bubonic Plague, Gutenberg's Printing Press, Columbus, Michelangelo, Reformation, Shakespeare, Newton, Bach, American Revolution, Abolishment of Slavery, Bell's phone, Edison's Electric Light, Women Vote, the Wright Brothers Fly, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Ford's Assembly Line, World War One, the Spanish Flu, the Big Bang Theory, Fleming's Penicillin, Hubble and the Universe, Nazis, Hitler, WW2, Pearle Harbour, The Bomb, The Wall, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, the discovery of the DNA Structure, Smallpox, AIDs, the Fall of the Wall, end of Apartheid, 9/11, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, their deaths, North Korea, Hurricane Katrina, Stem Cell Research, oh yeah, and those old school hidden gems like Making Fire and the Wheel.
But recently, there's a new contestant looking to join the ranks of History's all-star lineup: Death of the Deadliest of Human Cancers...
http://www.dca.med.ualberta.ca/Home/Updates/2010-05-12_Update.cfm
The romance of history lies in its ability to move - amazing that something defined by time can have so little trouble ignoring its limiting structure. Whether finding itself in the eternity filed under "Before Hi-Jacked!", or taking place in the exhilarating Post-Me era, History is the poster child for accomplishment - History is the highlight reel of existence.
Order, Belief, Value, Sex, Age; History impacts us no matter how we string together the whos, the whats, and the hows. And the importance, well that type of question is all kinds of fun, you pick and choose... Agriculture, Alexander the Great, Jesus of Nazareth, Pax Romana, Muhammad, the Crusades, Genghis Khan, the Renaissance, Bubonic Plague, Gutenberg's Printing Press, Columbus, Michelangelo, Reformation, Shakespeare, Newton, Bach, American Revolution, Abolishment of Slavery, Bell's phone, Edison's Electric Light, Women Vote, the Wright Brothers Fly, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Ford's Assembly Line, World War One, the Spanish Flu, the Big Bang Theory, Fleming's Penicillin, Hubble and the Universe, Nazis, Hitler, WW2, Pearle Harbour, The Bomb, The Wall, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, the discovery of the DNA Structure, Smallpox, AIDs, the Fall of the Wall, end of Apartheid, 9/11, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, their deaths, North Korea, Hurricane Katrina, Stem Cell Research, oh yeah, and those old school hidden gems like Making Fire and the Wheel.
But recently, there's a new contestant looking to join the ranks of History's all-star lineup: Death of the Deadliest of Human Cancers...
http://www.dca.med.ualberta.ca/Home/Updates/2010-05-12_Update.cfm
I filled in the blank that was the post-script of this article with:
I see that this team of superheroes, who are basically driving Cancer up against the ropes and setting the stage for their Mortal Kombate "Finish Him" stratagem, was made up of not only the usual Cancer Killers (the Docs and Lab Coats), but also the EngiNerds (holla for the homies!).
This is heavy even for History. Forget Getting to the Moon, the Internet, electing a Black President, if humans can cure cancer we have a new Best-Of nominee. This Elite Task force, hunting down the terror that is Cancer is basically finding fairy tales and ignoring the make-believe ingredient - is there anything more amazing than the real pursuit of the fountain of youth? I can't wait for the ethical mess that would come from questions of immortality, from over population, from "playing God"... At this point that fun's hiding on the back burning though, because the fight still has the UofA's A-Team waiting for that Cancer KO. One thing is for sure, if History brings Cure-Cancer off the bench and puts her into the game, we will officially remove the question of whether or not the Dolphins are smarter than us. Live forever? Goooooo Humans!!!
I see that this team of superheroes, who are basically driving Cancer up against the ropes and setting the stage for their Mortal Kombate "Finish Him" stratagem, was made up of not only the usual Cancer Killers (the Docs and Lab Coats), but also the EngiNerds (holla for the homies!).
This is heavy even for History. Forget Getting to the Moon, the Internet, electing a Black President, if humans can cure cancer we have a new Best-Of nominee. This Elite Task force, hunting down the terror that is Cancer is basically finding fairy tales and ignoring the make-believe ingredient - is there anything more amazing than the real pursuit of the fountain of youth? I can't wait for the ethical mess that would come from questions of immortality, from over population, from "playing God"... At this point that fun's hiding on the back burning though, because the fight still has the UofA's A-Team waiting for that Cancer KO. One thing is for sure, if History brings Cure-Cancer off the bench and puts her into the game, we will officially remove the question of whether or not the Dolphins are smarter than us. Live forever? Goooooo Humans!!!
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