Ada Lovelace. I’ve just discovered she invented the first algorithm during her work with Charles Babbage on what is generally considered the world’s first computer.
Born in 1815, she became a self-taught mathematician, and, effectively, the first computer programmer. Apart, perhaps, for Charles Babbage himself.
The 62,000 dead following the 5th-deadliest earthquake of
the 21st century in Turkey and Syria.
The millions of hapless youths losing their innocence and facing a future of mental turmoil after being forced, cajoled, bullied, persuaded, or tempted into conflict in Russia, Ukraine, Myanmar, Sudan, Tigray, Armenia, Manipur, Israel, Palestine, and countless other places in a troubled world.
The impotence of the International Criminal Court as it issues an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights.
Members of the IPPC who compiled the Sixth Assessment Report on climate change, those ridiculing their conclusions, and others whose homes will disappear within the next few decades.
Engineers who spent years developing SpaceX’s Starship rocket, and who saw the world’s largest rocket ever built explode four minutes after launch.
The determination shown by the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, in its rejection of the leadership of Archbishop of Canterbury over his support for same-sex marriage.
The poor souls of those victims of mass cult suicide whose bodies were discovered in shallow graves in Shakahola forest in Kenya.
Covid-19, whose status has now been degraded from a global health emergency by The World Health Organization, though it continues to be considered a pandemic.
The prospects of our species now that scientists have created of the first synthetic human embryo from stem cells, without the need for sperm or egg cells.
The Titan submersible which imploded while exploring the wreck of the Titanic, killing all on board who would probably have known nothing about it.
The implications of the United Nations Security Council ending its peacekeeping mission in Mali.
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