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In the ’90s, A Brief History Of Time may have satisfied our cultural need to reduce science to soundbite. But in the aughts, science banged into fiction like a pair of protons in the Large Hadron Collider, with home brewed black holes, time traveling particles, cats with wings, and a legion of armchair meteorologists pointing at the snow and declaring global warming a hoax, just to name the biggies. Welcome to Pop Science 101, a class without a teacher, a textbook, and a series of Wikipedia entries updated more often than Michael Jackson.
Here are six pop science ideas that popped over the past decade that we hope will die — or get sucked out of our collective system and into a black hole — before the new year (and one we actually like).
