Every one puts out there favorite 2011 lists around this time of year. Here is my current list of my favorite lists
Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2011 from i09.com
The world’s lowest density material
“Feeling” objects with a brain implant
Astronomers get their first good look at giant asteroid Vesta
NASA’s Kepler Mission changes how we see ourselves in the Universe
Heartbeat-powered nanogenerators could soon replace batteries
Neuroscientists reconstruct the movies in your mind
100,000-year-old art kit found in South Africa
Online gamers solve a decade-old HIV puzzle in three weeks
Ancient settlement upends our perception of human evolution
Confirmed: Neanderthal DNA survives in Modern Humans
IBM unveils brain-like “neurosynaptic” chips
NASA launches the most advanced Martian rover in history
A device that lets you see through walls
Electronics and biometric sensors that you wear like a temporary tattoo
Culling senescent cells postpones age-related disease in mice
Scientists engineer highly virulent strains of bird flu
The hunt for the Higgs boson nears its conclusion
Faster-than-light Neutrinos
D’oh! Top Five science journal retractions of 2011 from MSNBC
#5: Los Angeles marijuana dispensaries lead to drop in crime.
#4: Butterfly meets worm, falls in love, and has caterpillars.
#3: Treat appendicitis with antibiotics, not surgery.
#2: Litter breeds crime and discrimination.
#1: Chronic fatigue syndrome is caused by a virus.
Top 10 political blunders of 2011 from Politico
Obama pivots to deficits
Republicans vote on the Ryan budget
Tim Pawlenty bets it all on Ames
Mitt Romney hides
Rick Perry debates
Jon Huntsman returns from China
Mr. Daley goes to Washington
Mitch and Haley stay home
Dems pick Charlotte
John Kasich pushes SB 5
Worst Quotes of 2011: Yesterday’s Media ‘Thrills’ Replaced by Bitter Anti-Conservative Nastiness from Media Research Center
“Grim Reaper Award,” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman “won” for his ridiculous hyperbole about Paul Ryan‘s proposal to change the way Medicare is financed. “[Ryan’s] voucher would kill people, no question,” Krugman insisted in a CNN profile of Ryan that aired September 25. “Tens of millions of older Americans would not be able to afford essential health care….That counts as cruelty to me.” . . .
In our “Hopeless Dopes Award,” NBC anchor Brian Williams was recognized for the brazen liberal agenda he brought with him to a September 7 GOP candidates debate. At one point, Williams haughtily suggested to Rick Santorum that he and other Republicans were failing to live up to Christian principles: “The Catholic faith has, as a part of it, caring for the poor. One in seven people in this country now qualifies as poor. Where do the poor come in, where do they place in this party, on this stage, in a Santorum administration?”
Journalists had their knives out for the Tea Party in 2011. Winning our “Poison Tea Pot Award,” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on August 3 slammed House Tea Party members as “budget slashers” who acted “like cannibals, eating their own party and leaders alive. They were like vampires, draining the country’s reputation, credit rating and compassion. They were like zombies, relentlessly and mindlessly coming back again and again to assault their unnerved victims….”
For further Worst Quotes read it at the source here