I hope you’ve all had a happy New Year! Now is the time when you can pick up those issues of Time or Newsweek or some special edition of Discovery magazine that reads: the top 100 technological insights of 2016, or the most surprising discoveries of 2016.

Anyone here love to read those? Do you save them? I do, and I always find something science or technology is up to that I had no idea about. Some of the highlights for example that I’ve seen so far are

1. Mathematicians have discovered a new prime number!
2. Astronomers believe they’ve discovered a ninth planet in our solar system
3. A private company has successfully landed a rocket vertically
4. Stem cells injected into stroke patients have enabled the patient to walk again

And there are many others. I don’t know about you, but I’d say out…