New calendar year: the 20 most viewed articles on the Hedaan site in the past year: World Cup, landing on a comet and women in science

Operation Tzuk Eitan, the World Cup, the landing on the comet, but also the story of an autodidact who promoted the field of differential calculus in 19th century Italy, the answer to baseless claims about the risk in milk and other interesting stories interested you in 2014. Before its opening 

As every year, about a thousand articles were uploaded to the Hidan site this year, but there are twenty articles that stood out and whose hits broke records. Not all important events were represented - mainly because of massive coverage (Landing on the comet, first flight of a spacecraft Orion which will replace the ferry) which caused the distribution of a large number of articles. With the beginning of a new civil year, we bring you the list of the articles you liked the most.

see also:

• Summary of the year 2014 Part II - Astronomy and astrophysics: a rare meeting between Mars and the comet 'Ben David' of the Earth and a supercluster
• Summary of 2014 Part I - Man in space: the landing on the comet, the test flight of Orion and the space disasters

In the list of the top twenty, we see the readers' love for biographies of women in the history of science, a field from which for many years women were excluded and those who succeeded did so despite the exclusion - Maria Aniisa and Marie Ennig. The article about Maria Aneesi had nearly 55 hits. In this context, we also learned about the names that the smallpox disease made until it was eradicated by vaccines - it even defeated battles and caused turning points in history.

The list also includes representation for two events that took place this year at the same time, ironically: the World Cup and Operation Tzuk Eitan. In both cases we referred to the technological aspects.

This year they also liked to debunk myths with the help of skeptical articles. For example, in second place is an article byRoey Tsezana, which was written in response to all kinds of stories that appeared on the Internet about the danger in milk - which has no real basis (of course, except for people who are sensitive to lactose), in this category is also included the confrontation between the science journalist Bill Nye and the director of one of the creation museums that are increasing in number in the countries of the Tanach belt in the USA). Criticism of the High Court of Justice on the High Court's decision not to require ultra-Orthodox students in the upper grades to take core studies still receives dozens of hits every day.

At the end of the year, the science website recorded 3.5 million views, which indicates that the people of Israel are smarter than the advertising people and editors in the major media think (on the general television channels, science appears here and there in some news article or magazine. In the press and the major internet media (which also belong to the same "Yim) there is little coverage for science and it is even Balanced with anti-science and even Worse than that - wrong.

In 2002, when IOL merged with Walla, Walla's VP at the time, Erez Philosoph, told me a sentence that I don't forget to this day: We don't want heavy materials, take your files before we run over the server." A manager of a large advertising agency told me "Science is a niche" (not that he delivers relevant materials to a "niche"). You have proven that even "heavy" articles get thousands of views, apparently the advertisers and the media have worked together to appeal to the lowest common denominator imaginable, the public is probably smarter than the threshold they set for it.

That's why I uploaded to the site the video of Neil deGrasse Tyson, who says, among other things, the following sentence:
"You cannot look at science and mathematics as a separate subject. It is at the foundation of life because science surrounds you from all sides. It affects your health, your security, who you vote for and what political issues you face. If you are not scientifically literate, in a sense, you are denying your rights in the democratic process and you don't even know it."
And maybe the politicians really prefer with Burr, so that they can soap him up with decisions that are not based on fact-based science,

But what warmed my heart the most were the views from school websites, science teacher websites, foreign exchange, Hamda and more.

The most viewed articles in 2014. The articles from previous years that entered the list are marked with an asterisk

1. Maria Gaetana Agnesi - studied mathematics as a hobby and wrote the first textbook in Khado'a
2. The milk panic - a response to the video circulating on the Internet *
3. Watch: NASA turns the 2014 FIFA World Cup into a lesson in aerodynamics
4. Opinion/ In the confrontation between the science journalist who explained evolution and creation, scientific education won
5. Today is the first day of spring
6. A smart ball, and sensors on each player - FIFA World Cup 2014 model football  *
7. Marie Anning - the best dinosaur museum in history
8. The disease that brought down at least three empires *
9. Technion researchers have developed a way to locate tunnels using an optical fiber *
10. What did Asimov foresee in 1964 that would be established in the Negev in 2014?
11. Earth live in high resolution from space (video)
12. How was the universe created from nothing?
13. A country haunted by demons MU: On the occasion of International Children's Day: Education aimed at ignorance is an unforgivable sin
14. The bleeding stone: an alien stone teaches us about the origin of species *
15. First direct evidence of the existence of gravitational waves that caused the universe to swell immediately after the big bang (which turned out to be wrong)
16. A planet similar to Earth was discovered, in its habitable zone and at a very short distance from the solar system
17. Take a picture of Schrödinger's cat
18. Similar but also different: an almost twin planet to Earth orbiting a red dwarf in an orbit that allows life
19. Fall: when is it red and when is it yellow?
20. Devotion, Zionism and some parts of "Toys R Us" - an interview with the leading team of "Iron Dome", all of whose members are Technion graduates, about the secret of the project's success