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Best Breakthrough Since Sliced Bread, or At Least Since the Wheel

On the way to a flight to Baltimore (note:  it is freaking cold in Baltimore) I picked up The Atlantic (November 2013 issue) to read the article entitled “The 50 Greatest Inventions Since the Wheel.” While these kind of sweeping generalization lists are always subjective, this particular list was compiled through a voting process that included a panel of 12 renowned scientists, engineers, technology historians, and entrepreneurs.

I was curious to see how many of the 50 would relate to health and medicine, particularly given the incredible advances we have seen even in just the past 100 years, must less the past several millennia. This list has an interesting variety of usual and unusual…

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