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Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death

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Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death

3/5/21 by Pushkin Industries

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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/

Nyan Cat is being sold as a one-of-a-kind piece of crypto art – The Verge

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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.

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What’s An NFT? And Why Are People Paying Millions To Buy Them? : 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.

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