October 7th: When Henry Ford met modern history

Today in history is basically a fever dream. Back in 1913, Henry Ford changed the world by making his factory move on a conveyor belt, which turned cars from luxury toys into standard driveway clutter. Fast forward to 1968, and the movie industry decided we needed a G-X rating system just to keep track of what was appropriate for us to watch. It’s wild that the same calendar date that saw the launch of the Project Mercury space program also houses such heavy, somber chapters like the start of the current war in Israel and the Achille Lauro hijacking.

We also have the Nobel Prize winners for medicine dropping their discovery of microRNA on the same anniversary. It’s a bizarre mix of humanity’s greatest leaps in science and our deepest, darkest conflicts. It really makes you wonder if our progress is just a race between building better factories and tearing everything else down.