Gray Winters Evening
At least the snow is getting thinner and all of the signs point to winter coming to an end sooner then later.
Taken on Saturday March 12, 2011 at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center.
Decent Flow Over the Falls
Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death
Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death
3/5/21 by Pushkin Industries
Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/119969553
Episode: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chtbl.com/track/39E17/traffic.megaphone.fm/HSW4090202523.mp3?updated=1614036837
Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played by her distant cousin Helena Bonham Carter) is a hero of modern medicine – but her greatest contribution to combating disease and death resulted from the vivid graphs she made to back her public health campaigns. Her charts convinced the great and the good that deaths due to filth and poor sanitation could be averted – saving countless lives. But did Nightingale open Pandora’s Box, showing that graphs persuade, whether or not they depict reality? Read more about Tim’s work at http://timharford.com/
Ausable Forks
Nyan Cat is being sold as a one-of-a-kind piece of crypto art – The Verge
Crypto art has been growing in popularity over the past few years, and there are now a number of digital marketplaces — including Zora, SuperRare, and Nifty Gateway — where collectors can buy and sell digital works. Last year, the digital artist Beeple sold a series of works for more than $3.5 million in total, and the musician Deadmau5 sold thousands of digital pins, stickers, and other collectibles in December.
NPR
The artist Grimes recently sold a bunch of NFTs for nearly $6 million. An NFT of LeBron James making a historic dunk for the Lakers garnered more than $200,000. The band Kings of Leon is releasing its new album in the form of an NFT.
I read this article and I just don't understand. Maybe I'm not very bright.