Such was my 13-year-old's discovery, turned obsession, that he wanted to take up boxing.
Opening on Friday on a single screen in Manhattan, this sharp, gutsy indie is one of the year's great discoveries.
As you can see from the list below, the year's biggest discoveries were all over the place, from Malaysia, to Mozambique, Egypt, Angola and Canada.
Produced only 28 years later (1881; the year before Robert Koch's "discovery" of Mycobacterium tuberculosis), Les contes d'Hoffmann [Tales of Hoffmann] exhibits an important shift in thinking about consumption.
Franklin died in 1790 — six years before Jenner's discovery and 190 years before the World Health Organization announced that vaccination efforts had succeeded in eradicating smallpox from the globe.
The first was built in the 1850s, but all had disappeared by 1860, only a year after E.L. Drake's discovery of crude oil in Pennsylvania in 1859.
A year after Hertz's discovery, it became clear that ultraviolet radiation caused the emission of negatively charged particles from solid surfaces.
A year after Yamanaka's discovery, his group and two others reported that they could induce human cells to do the same thing.
Within a year of Faraday's discovery, a small hand-turned generator in which a magnet revolved around coils was demonstrated in Paris.
Consider that in response to earlier incursions (also detected by the Canadian researchers), the Dalai Lama's staff had installed state-of-the-art firewalls one year before Walton's discovery.
Since 1994, the year of Chauvet's discovery, a team led by archaeologist Randall White of New York University in New York City has been working at the Abri Castanet, a rock shelter (a shallow cave usually at the base of a cliff) in southern France's Vezere valley.
