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Who Are Todays Heroes? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Who are the heroes of our time? Who is driving us to a better future? And who is inspiring and guiding us?

Anything goes: famous people, people in your own life, fictional people who represent something to your culture, groups of people working behind the scenes etc.

The only rule is they must be current.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My parents and parents-in-law.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Your parents and your in-laws are my heroes too. Because whatever they did, it must've been really great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman.

They noticed that naively adding test tube synthesized mRNA elicited immflamatory responses from immune cells, while mRNA derived from cells did not. They figured out that chemical modifications to mRNAs were responsible for avoiding these immune reactions to the mRNAs.

These results would open the path for development of mRNA-based vaccines, like the vaccines repsonsible for limiting the damage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Paul Hogan

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Downvoters, pump your brakes. The man's a national treasure!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Mothers. For raising up kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised to see this has been downvoted. I know not all mothers are perfect but just keeping a baby alive and healthy is pretty heroic IMO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Humans identify power/mighty ( even angry ) people as Heroic. Those ones with empathy, love are considered as cowards.

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