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Vaccines (yay!)

Pasteurization

Implementing and enforcing food quality and sanitation standards. Did you know White Castle was called as such because their gimmic was that they continually cleaned and bleached their stores inside and out to prevent food poisoning.

The invention of antibiotics! The first sulfa drugs dropped in the 1930s-40s

Widespread access and distribution of enriched food products! Enriched flour did a lot to prevent malnutrition, and it’s how Wonderbread got its name!

We got a hell of a lot better with medical care for sick and premature infants. The first incubators for premature babies were actually used as something of a sideshow attraction at Coney Island! It was the only way the doctor who invented them could get funding to keep them running because no one thought it would work. It showed a lot of people that really premature babies could survive with the right treatment and eventually was adopted by hospitals.

The green revolution in agriculture that prevented around a billion people from starving to death

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

I feel that a set should be like a happy family. Almost like Thanksgiving every day. Happily going down the road together, getting along and congratulating people all the time of their good work. And, you know, getting a really great feeling. A safe feeling too. For the actors, so they can - like I say - let go and go to a new character with as little fear as possible, and really get in there, deep. People who run a set on fear, or a business on fear, I say are really stupid. If you run your business on fear, you’re going to stress the people. You’re gonna cause all kinds of conflicts, and jealousy, and backstabbing to get ahead in the business. When the father or mother come home from work, they’re gonna be coming home tired and stressed. And the little kids can feel this, and there can be arguments in the home, based on this stress, and anxieties, and tension. And the little kids are just wondering, what is this kind of world?