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The world’s largest database of social change milestones, from the first fire to today’s good news.
A Timeline of Human History
We are building the world’s largest database of social change milestones, from the first fire to today’s good news. Change is not only possible, it has happened consistently throughout human history.
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2019 C.E.
January 23 The renewable energy sector in Britain saw levels of generation increase by 12.7 TWh (15%) in 2018, subsequently impacting levels of conventional power generation fell by 7% from 140.3 TWh in 2017.
2019 C.E.
January 23 For a technology that stands to revolutionize how we generate clean energy, nuclear fusion is remarkably leaky, making the process much less efficient. But new research from the U.S. Department of Energy may have found a way to keep those particles where they belong.
2019 C.E.
January 22 Promoters have long extolled the virtue of the grassy weed as one of the cheapest and most important crops for solving the world's problems around sustainability and health with it's alleged ability to treat numerous symptoms and diseases.
2019 C.E.
January 22 Sikkim will provide cash payments to each of its 610,000 citizens -- the largest basic income experiment in history.
2019 C.E.
January 17 India will auction off 40 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind capacity every year until 2028, part of the country's goal to produce 40 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
2019 C.E.
January 17 Brain changes associated with leaky capillaries suggest new, potential drug targets as well as a way to diagnose the disease sooner.
2019 C.E.
January 16 New York State made history today, with both houses of the legislature passing bills to ban discrimination based on gender identity and to prohibit the use of conversion therapy on minors. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to sign both.
2019 C.E.
January 16 Green energy's share of Germany's power production has risen to over 40% from 38% percent in 2017 and just 19% percent in 2010.
2019 C.E.
January 15 There is no one reason for the global decline, but it is particularly notable among young women in China and India, middle-aged men in Russia, and the elderly.
2019 C.E.
January 15 The measures, planned by Democrats who reclaimed control of all levers of state government for the first time in modern memory, would allow voters to cast their ballots early or by mail for the first time in state history.
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