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It’s that time of year again! Time for this internet bottom-feeder to aggregate all the science and technology lists I can find and put them into one post for you to read. It’s been a year, so here it is—in list form!
First off, we have some General Lists:
- Scientific American’s “The Top 10 Science Stories of 2017“
- NBC’s “7 Top Science and Tech Stories of 2017“
- Axios’s “The Science Stories that Mattered Most in 2017“
- Wired’s “The Most-Read Wired Science Stories of 2017“
Next, some explicitly Feminist Lists:
- Ms. Magazine’s “The Top Feminist Pop Culture Shakeups of 2017“
- Harper’s Bazaar’s “The 15 Best Moments for Women in 2017“
- Makers’s “10 Best Feminist Moments of 2017“
- Planned Parenthood’s “The Top 5 Feminist Moments of 2017“
A List of Long Reads Lists:
- BBC’s “The Best Science Long Reads of 2017” (part one) and (part two)
- Longreads’s “Best of 2017: Science, Technology, and Business Writing“
- Nature’s “Nature’s Favourite Long-Reads of 2017“
- Feministing’s “2017 Recap: Our Favourite Feminist Writing on the Internet“
- The Verge’s “Our favorite science stories this year (that we didn’t write)“
Some Best Science Books of 2017 Lists:
- Business Insider’s “The Best Books for Science Nerds Published in 2017“
- PRI’s “Best Science Books of 2017“
- Goodreads’s “Best Science and Technology” winner and runners-up for 2017
- Science Friday’s “The Best Science Books of 2017“
- MIT Technology Review’s “Best Tech Books of 2017“
- Huffpost’s “21 of the Best Feminist Books of 2017“
- Feministing’s “2017 Recap: Our Favorite Feminist Books“
- Autostraddle’s “The Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2017“
Multimedia Lists!
- Forbes’s “Where To Find Some of the Best Science Videos 0f 2017“
- AAAS Science Magazine’s “These Science videos topped the charts—and stole our hearts—in 2017“
- Nature’s “2017 in Pictures: The Best Science Images of the Year“
- Live Science’s “The Best Science Photos of 2017“
- Space.com’s “Pale Blue Dot, Beautiful Planet: The Best Astronaut Images of Earth from 2017“
- Buzzfeed’s “22 of the Most Extraordinary Science Photos of 2017“
- Kotaku’s “Keza MacDonald’s Top 9 Games of 2017“
And Lastly, some Uplifting Lists:
- PopSci’s “The Most Uplifting Science Stories of 2017“
- Vox’s “7 science stories in 2017 that made us go, “Whoa, that’s awesome”“
- Space.com’s “The Greatest Space Science Stories of 2017“
- Futurism’s “Top 7 Breakthroughs of 2017 That Prove We’re Living in the Future“
- PopSci’s “The 100 Greatest Innovations of 2017“
That’s all for 2017, folks. Have a great 2018.
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Richard Ford Burley is a human, YA author, and doctoral candidate at Boston College, as well as Deputy Managing Editor at Ledger, the first academic journal devoted to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In his spare time he writes about science, skepticism, feminism, and futurism here at This Week In Tomorrow.