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: NASA’s New Horizons mission performed the first-ever flyby of
Apple entered the wearable market in April, instantly setting the benchmark for the modern smartwatch industry.
While Spotlight (a film about the Boston Globe's investigation of Catholic Church sex abuse) would win Best Picture in early 2016 , the nominations announced in 2015 set off a firestorm. For the second year in a row, all 20 acting nominees were white. The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, coined in 2015 by activist April Reign, forced Hollywood into a painful, necessary conversation about representation that still echoes today. (Use this format if you are creating a
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: A technical but highly influential post by Andrej Karpathy on Github about the capabilities of RNNs.
The television industry also saw significant releases in 2015. , the hit HBO series, aired its fifth season, while The Walking Dead , Breaking Bad , and The Big Bang Theory continued to draw large audiences. The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, coined in 2015 by activist
: Europe experienced an unprecedented surge of over one million migrants fleeing conflict.
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Pope Francis released the encyclical Laudato si’ , focusing on care for the environment and global inequality [16]. If you share with third parties, their policies apply
As we look back from the vantage point of 2026, 2015 feels both familiar and distant. It was the last full year before the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump – events that would reshape Western politics. It was the year before Pokémon GO would make augmented reality a mass phenomenon, and before TikTok would emerge to change social media forever. In 2015, we still had hoverboard fires (the self-balancing scooters that were the hot holiday gift), but we had no idea that a global pandemic was just five years away.
During Katy Perry’s Super Bowl XLIX halftime show, a dancer in a shark costume performed choreography that was... off. "Left Shark" became a symbol of doing your best even when you have no idea what you’re doing. It was a wholesome meme before memes turned toxic.
: Following the 2014 unrest in Ferguson, the movement gained global prominence in 2015. High-profile cases catalyzed nationwide debates over police accountability, criminal justice reform, and systemic racial inequality. 3. Science, Space, and Environmental Breakthroughs
Pop culture in 2015 was defined by the resurrection of massive cinematic franchises and viral internet trends that united—and divided—the internet.
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