Thursday, January 23, 2020

The decade in review

You know I love lists! There are lots of them this month :-)

First up, the most looked up word every year for the last decade;
2019 - they
2018 - justice
2017 - feminism
2016 - surreal
2015 - -ism
2014 - culture
2013 - science
2012 - socialism
2011 - pragmatic
2010 - austerity

Next, TIME's "person of the year"
2019 - Greta Thunberg, environmental activist
2018 - The Guardians and the War On Truth
2017 - The Silence Breakers; those women who broke out and spoke up about sexual harassment, etc.
2016 - Donald Trump
2015 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
2014 - The Ebola Fighters
2013 - Pope Francis
2012 - Barack Obama
2011 - The Protester
2010 - Mark Zuckerberg

Top searches on Goggle
2019 - Disney Plus
2018 - World Cup
2017 - Hurricane Irma
2016 - Powerball
2015 - Lamar Odom
2014 - Robin Williams
2013 - Paul Walker
2012 - Whitney Houston
2011 - Rebecca Black, a YouTuber and singer
2010 - Chatroulette, an online chat website
These say a lot about today's world, don't they.

10 Species that went extinct
Tacoma Pocket Gopher
Po'ouli, a Hawaiian bird
Hawaiian tree snail
Eastern puma
South Florida rainbow snake
Ozark pyrg, a freshwater mussel
Pinta Island tortoise, the last one was 100 yrs old when he died in 2012
Clouded leopard in Taiwan
Bramble Cay melomys, it's a mouse
Florida Zestos Skipper, a butterfly found only in the Florida Keys

And this is a list of the top medical advancements of the last decade - facinating!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/50-notable-medical-advancements-of-the-decade/ss-BBXEoSA?li=BBnb7Kz#image=1


The top grossing movies of the last decade
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2. Avengers: Endgame
3. Black Panther
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. Jurassic World
6. The Avengers
7. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
8. Incredibles 2
9. The Lion King
10. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Top 10 best selling books of the last decade
1. Fifty Shades of Grey
2. Fifty Shades Darker
3. Fifty Shades Freed
4. The Hunger Games
5. The Help
6. The Girl on The Train
7. Gone Girl
8. The Fault in Our Stars
9. The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
10. Divergent

The most watched TV shows every year of the last decade...The Superbowl

Excluding sports, the most watched tv shows of the last decade were American Idol, The Voice and This is Us.

Critically, the top 10 "best" tv shows of the decade were
1. The Leftovers, hbo
2. Fleabag, Amazon
3. Breaking Bad, AMC
4. BoJack Horseman, Netflix
5. Hannibal, NBC
6. Veep, hbo
7. 30 Rock, NBC
8. The Americans, FX
9. Parks and Recreation, NBC
10. Atlanta, FX

And on Amazon, the top selling product from 2010 to 2015 was the Kindle. In 2016 and 2017 it was Echo and 2018 and 2019 it was the Fire Stick

that was fun 

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