🎭️Artwork made of 5,000 images captured over 13 years to go on sale in auction house first: NFTs are booming! We’re starting to see a sort of digital capitalism arise. The ERC721 standard paved the way for a world in which artists can commercialize their work without a middle man; a world in which digital art itself holds value. Not prints, but the arrangement of pixels themselves. An artist who’s capitalized more so on NFTs is the eccentric Mike Winkelmann or Beeple as many of us know him, whose weird 3D art has captured the oddity of many significant events over the past few years. Christie’s will be auctioning a collage of his first 5000 works, their first auction of a purely digital piece of artwork. I’ll be posting an essay on the rise of NFTs and their significance soon. That said, it’s quite exciting living through it all. (558 Words)
🪐Nasa releases video of Perseverance rover landing on Mars: Just yesterday NASA landed its Perseverance rover on Mars (Nominative Determinism much?). This breathtaking landing was broadcast to millions across the world. Perseverance and its accompanying drone hope to scour the harsh terrain of Mars and validate the existence of extra-terrestrial life. (877 words)
💭Scientists break through the wall of sleep to the untapped world of dreams: This story had to be the most fascinating one I’d encountered this week. Scientists from a host of institutions trained subjects to perform math in their dreams. The amazing part of this however wasn’t the basic arithmetic involved. It was that the query and the subsequent response by the research participant would be a demonstration of two-way communication between someone who was awake and someone who was indeed lucid dreaming. This has fascinating implications especially for how we learn. (2027 words)
☀️A first-of-its-kind geoengineering experiment is about to take its first step: Meanwhile, in the tiny labs of a certain university called Harvard, there are experiments being done to mimic the possible consequences of an attempt at Solar Engineering. In a world where we’re innovating a bit too slowly and are required to drastically reduce our emissions far more than we currently are, there’s a potential timeline in which we may have to “fuck around and find out” regarding this potentially controversial technology. (2147 words)
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