20 Things We Hated About 2020 and Some Things We Liked

1:48, Australia WildFires

• Yeung, J. 2020. “Australia’s deadly wildfires are showing no signs of stopping. Here’s what you need to know”. CNN World. Retrieved from: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/australia/australia-fires-explainer-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

3:12, Covid-19 Stats

• Center for Disease and Control. 2020. “United States COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by State”. Center for Disease and Control. Retrieved from: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days

4:25, Coronavirus Timeline

• Schumaker, E. 2020. “Timeline: How Coronaviurs got started. The outbreak spanning the globe began in December, in Wuhan, China.” ABC News. Retrieved from: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/timeline-coronavirus-started/story?id=69435165

7:21, Covid highs

• John Hopkins University of Medicine. “COVID-19 United States Cases by County”. John Hopkins University of Medicine. Retrieved from: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map

9: 49, B-SCI Conspiracy Theory Ep

• B-Scientists. “Conspiracy Theories”. B-SCI. Retrieved from: https://www.b-sci.org/podcast/episode/89a83e15/conspiracy-theories-rec-aug-12-2019

12:26, Murder Hornets

• Baker, M. 2020. “‘Murder Hornets’ in the U.S.: The Rush to Stop the Asian Giant Hornet”. NY Times. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/us/asian-giant-hornet-washington.html

12:40, B-SCI Black Mirror Ep

• B-Scientists. “Society and Tech”. B-SCI. Retrieved from: https://www.b-sci.org/podcast/episode/8fcf4502/society-and-tech-recorded-jan-2020

14:12, Zoom Fatigue

• Jiang, M. 2020. “The reason Zoom calls drain your energy.” BBC. Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200421-why-zoom-video-chats-are-so-exhausting

14:22, Gender the Body, and Fieldwork Across Disciplines Symposium

• Gender, the Body, and Fieldwork Across Disciplines Symposium. https://genderbodyfieldwork.wixsite.com/genderbodyfieldwork

• Episode: https://www.b-sci.org/podcast/episode/7e80bd1b/gender-the-body-and-fieldwork-symposium-livestream

17:15, Police Brutality

• Westerman, A., Benk, R., and Greene, D. 2020. “In 2020, Protests Spread Across the Globe With A Similar Message: Black Lives Matter”. NPR. Retrieved from: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/30/950053607/in-2020-protests-spread-across-the-globe-with-a-similar-message-black-lives-matt

17: 33, Karens

• Nagesh, A. 2020. “What exactly is a ‘Karen’ and where did the meme come from?”. BBC News. Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53588201

18: 44, Karen Act - San Francisco

• Ebrahimji, A. and Jackson, A. 2020. “San Francisco’s ‘CAREN Act’, making racially biased 911 calls illegal, is one step closer to becoming a law.”. CNN US. Retrieved from: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/us/caren-act-911-san-francisco-board-passes-first-read-trnd/index.html 

18: 53, Karen Acts

• Donaghue, E. 2020. “Some false police reports could be a hate crime under proposed New York law”. CBS News. Retrieved from: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/false-police-reports-hate-crime-proposed-new-york-law-central-park-amy-cooper/

19:11 BlackinX

• Langin, K. “‘A time of reckoning.’ How scientists confronted anti-Black racism and built community in 2020.” Science Magazine Careers. Retrieved from: https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2020/12/time-reckoning-how-scientists-confronted-anti-black-racism-and-built-community-2020?utm_source=sc-tw&utm_medium=social

19:51,Prominent Deaths

• Kobe Bryant- Blinder, A., Draper, K. and Bergeron, E. 2020. “N.B.A. Star Kobe Bryant Dies in California Helicopter Crash”. NY Times. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/sports/basketball/kobe-bryant-dead.html

• Seelye, K.Q. 2020. “John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80”. NY Times. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/john-lewis-dead.html

• Chadwick Boseman - Ugwu, R. and Levenson, M. 2020. “‘Black Panther’ Star Chadwick Boseman Dies of Cancer at 43”. NY Times. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/movies/chadwick-boseman-dead.html

• Totenberg, N. 2020. “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion of Gender Equality, Dies at 87”. NPR Law. Retrieved from: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87

24:32, Election

• NPR’s Election Page: https://www.npr.org/sections/elections/

37:50, Vaccine

• Center for Disease and Control. “Benefits of Getting Vaccinated”. Center for Disease and Control. Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/vaccine-benefits.html

38:11, Pfizer Vaccine

• Callaway, E. 2020. “What Pfizer’s landmark COVID vaccine results mean for the pandemic.” Nature News. Retrieved from: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03166-8

40:19, Kizzmekia Corbett

• Romero, L., Salzman, S., and Folmer, K. 2020. “Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American woman, is praised as key scientist behind COVID-19 vaccine”. ABC News. Retrieved from: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/kizzmekia-corbett-african-american-woman-praised-key-scientist/story?id=74679965

• Follow her on Twitter: @KizzyPhD

40:40, BlackinX

• Langin, K. “‘A time of reckoning.’ How scientists confronted anti-Black racism and built community in 2020.” Science Magazine Careers. Retrieved from: https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2020/12/time-reckoning-how-scientists-confronted-anti-black-racism-and-built-community-2020?utm_source=sc-tw&utm_medium=social

50:17, Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to 2 Women

• Greenfieldboyce, N. and Katkov, M. 2020. “2 Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Genome Editing Research.” NPR Science. Retrieved from: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/07/921043046/2-female-scientists-awarded-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-for-genome-editing-research

51:29, Mars Perseverance Launched on July 30, 2020 and will land on Mars February 18, 2021

• Mission Updates: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/