in honor of that anon who said jews have done nothing for the world, here’s a non exhaustive list of things we’ve done for the world:
arts, fashion, and lifestyle:
jeans - levi strauss
modern bras - ida rosenthal
sewing machines - isaac merritt singer
modern film industry - carl laemmle (universal pictures), adolph zukor (paramount pictures), william fox (fox film forporation), louis b. mayer (mgm - metro-goldwyn-mayer), harry, sam, albert, and jack warners (warner bros.), steven spielberg, mel brooks, marx brothers
operetta - jacques offenbach
comic books - stan lee
graphic novels - will eisner
teddy bears - morris and rose michtom
influential musicians - irving berlin, stephen sondheim, benny goodman, george gershwin, paul simon, itzhak perlman, leonard bernstein, bob dylan, leonard cohen
artists - mark rothko
actors - elizabeth taylor, jerry lewis, barbara streisand
comedians - lenny bruce, joan rivers, jerry seinfeld
authors - judy blume, tony kushner, allen ginsberg, walter mosley
culture:
esperanto - ludwik lazar zamenhof
feminism - betty friedan, gloria steinem, ruth bader ginsberg
queer and trans rights - larry kramer, harvey milk, leslie feinberg, abby stein, kate bornstein, frank kameny, judith butler
international women's day - clara zetkin
principles of journalizm, statue of liberty, and pulitzer prize - joseph pulitzer
"the new colossus" - emma lazarus
universal declaration of human rights - rene samuel cassin
holocaust remembrance and human rights activism - elie wiesel
workers rights - louis brandeis, rose schneiderman
public health care, women's rights, and children's rights - lillian wald
racial equity - rabbi abraham joshua heschel, julius rosenwald, andrew goodman, michael schwerner
political theory - hannah arendt
disability rights - judith heumann
black lives matter slogan and movement - alicia garza
#metoo movement - jodi kantor
institute of sexology - magnus hirschfeld
technology:
word processing computers - evelyn berezin
facebook - mark zuckerberg
console video game system - ralph henry baer
cell phones - amos edward joel jr., martin cooper
3d - leonard lipton
telephone - philipp reis
fax machines - arthur korn
microphone - emile berliner
gramophone - emile berliner
television - boris rosing
barcodes - norman joseph woodland and bernard silver
secret communication system, which is the foundation of the technology used for wifi - hedy lamarr
three laws of robotics - isaac asimov
cybernetics - norbert wiener
helicopters - emile berliner
BASIC (programming language) - john george kemeny
google - sergey mikhaylovich brin and larry page
VCR - jerome lemelson
fax machine - jerome lemelson
telegraph - samuel finley breese morse
morse code - samuel finley breese morse
bulletproof glass - edouard benedictus
electric motor and electroplating - boris semyonovich jacobi
nuclear powered submarine - hyman george rickover
the internet - paul baran
icq instant messenger - arik vardi, yair goldfinger,, sefi vigiser, amnon amir
color photography - leopold godowsky and leopold mannes
world's first computer - herman goldstine
modern computer architecture - john von neumann
bittorrent - bram cohen
voip internet telephony - alon cohen
data archiving - phil katz, eugene roshal, abraham lempel, jacob ziv
nemeth code - abraham nemeth
holography - dennis gabor
laser - theodor maiman
instant photo sharing online - philippe kahn
first automobile - siegfried samuel marcus
electrical maglev road - boris petrovich weinberg
drip irrigation - simcha blass
ballpoint pen and automatic gearbox - laszlo biro
photo booth - anatol marco josepho
medicine:
pacemakers and defibrillators - louise robinovitch
defibrillators - bernard lown
anti-plague and anti-cholera vaccines - vladimir aronovich khavkin
polio vaccine - jonas salk
test for diagnosis of syphilis - august paul von wasserman
test for typhoid fever - ferdinand widal
penicillin - ernst boris chain
pregnancy test - barnhard zondek
antiretroviral drug to treat aids and fight rejection in organ transplants - gertrude elion
discovery of hepatitis c virus - harvey alter
chemotherapy - paul ehrlich
discovery of prions - stanley prusiner
psychoanalysis - sigmund freud
rubber condoms - julius fromm
birth control pill - gregory goodwin pincus
asorbic acid (vitamin c) - tadeusz reichstein
blood groups and rh blood factor - karl landsteiner
acyclovir (treatment for infections caused by herpes virus) - gertrude elion
vitamins - caismir funk
technique for measuring blood insulin levils - rosalyn sussman yalow
antigen for hepatitus - baruch samuel blumberg
a bone fusion technique - gavriil abramovich ilizarov
homeopathy - christian friedrich samuel hahnemann
aspirin - arthur ernst eichengrun
science:
theory of relativity - albert einstein
theory of the electromagnetic field - james maxwell
quantum mechanics - max born, gustav ludwig hertz
quantum theory of gravity - matvei bronstein
microbiology - ferdinand julius cohn
neuropsychology - alexander romanovich luria
counters for x-rays and gamma rays - robert hofstadter
genetic engineering - paul berg
discovery of the antiproton - emilio gino segre
discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - arno allan penzias
discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe - adam riess and saul merlmutter
discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity - roger penrose
discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the milky way - andrea ghez
modern cosmology and the big bang theory - alexander alexandrovich friedmann
stainless steel - hans goldschmidt
gas powered vehicles
interferometer - albert abraham michelson
discovery of the source of energy production in stars - hans albrecht bethe
proved poincare conjecture - grigori yakovlevich perelman
biochemistry - otto fritz meyerhof
electron-positron collider - bruno touschek
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Things Read in March
Articles & Essays:
White outrage about Will Smith's slap is rooted in antiblackness
Hillsong Co-Founder Has Resigned After Allegations of Misconduct
Nurses Eat Their Young; An Insight Into Systematic Hazing and its Implications on Patient Care
Rashida Renée on Killing Nostalgia in 2022
'It's a powerful feeling: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo
Aren't You Wasting Your Time?
People of colour fleeing Ukraine attacked by Polish nationalists
We All Simp for Alfred Molina
The Problem with 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'
How Silence Became a Luxury Product
Inside the Cat Show Controversy
I Love Sally Rooney's Novels, But They Aren't Written for Me
This Fall, Dress Like A "Cool Shrink"
The Narcissism of Queer Influencer Activists
"The Slaves Were Happy": High School Latin and the Horrors of Classical Studies
An Interview with Andrew Garfield
The Nightmare on Elm Street remake is better than the angry mob insisted
Emily Ratajkowski: 'I had succeeded in comodifying my body. So why was I so unhappy?'
The sinister return of eugenics
Your brain is not a computer
My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel
World's longest song drones on
Interview with Jo Ann Beard
The Fourth State of Matter
Reddit Account May Prove Murder
Who is the Bad Art Friend?
The Bizarre Book 'Consensual Hex' is Getting Dragged for Depicting Real People
12 Literary Plagiarism Scandals, Ranked
Bob Dylan Slams Plagiarism Accusers as 'Wussies and Pussies'
Uncle Jam: George Clinton talks sample trolls, Kendrick Lamar, and UFO crashes
Bob Dylan Cheats Again?
The Allure of Chola Femininity
The Sacred Wood
The Cop-Attacking Chilean Dog Who Became A Worldwide Symbol of Protest
Why a baby shark is called a pup -- and other unusual baby animal names
The world's most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
Bizarro World
War Over 'The Conjuring': The Disturbing Claims Behind a Billion-Dollar Franchise
'Our Flag Means Death' Might Just be the Best Queer Show of the Year
The Alt-Right's Asian Fetish
Race Consciousness: Fascism and Frank Herbert's "Dune"
The Bootstrap Fallacy: Self-Levitation Doesn't Work
Lost Genes Explain Vampire Bats' Diet of Blood
A New Start After 60: 'I became a psychotherapist at 69 and found my calling.'
The Art of Loving and Losing Female Friends
The Singularity Is Here
How the Snowflakes Won
How Hollywood heartthrobs and Steven Spielberg helped make a drag queen cult classic
Let's Talk About Bæddelism
A Guide to Every Single Immersive Van Gogh Experiences Blanketing the U.S.
The Secret Life of Sacheen Littlefeather
"Cultural sexism in the world is very real when you've lived on both sides of the coin."
When Writing Fiction Hurts the People You Love
Poetry:
Outbreaks by Kitchen McKeown
Telemachus' Detachment by Louise Glück
To My Body by Nancy Sullivan
Magdalene by Marie Howe
Dream by Mathias Svalina
Phlebotomy, As Told by the Blood by Torrin A. Greathouse
The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood by Derrick Austin
March by Richard Kenney
Spring by Chloe Honum
Lines on Last Spring by Robert Hass
Books:
Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
White Lines On A Green Field by Catherynne M. Valente
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon
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