More Neanderthal Art

from artnet Scientists Say an Intricately Carved 51,000-Year-Old Deer Bone Is the Earliest Example of Neanderthals’ Artistic Abilities The bone was unearthed at the mouth of the Unicorn Cave in Germany. by Caroline Goldstein A 51,000-year-old deer bone with symbolic...

Spoilage Alert

from The Atlantic The Internet Is Rotting Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone. By Jonathan Zittrain Getty / Valerie Chiang Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently...

Hollywood Blockchain

from The Observer The Hidden Value Hollywood Hopes to Unlock With NFTs By Brandon Katz Hollywood hopes to unlock the hidden value in NFTs. Pixabay We live in an increasingly interconnected digital world that has altered the very ways in which we communicate, work,...

NFTs for Good

from Foreign Policy Are NFTs Always Bad? The digital assets known as “nonfungible tokens” could help artists make money from their work. By Diana Seave Greenwald Mad Dog Jones’s “Visor” goes on view as part of “Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale” at Sotheby’s in...

Dragon Man

from BBC News Scientists hail stunning ‘Dragon Man’ discovery By Pallab Ghosh IMAGE COPYRIGHT KAI GENG The Dragon Man’s skull is huge, with a brain size about the same as the average for our species Chinese researchers have unveiled an ancient skull...

Rest In Peace, Madman

from UnHerd John McAfee: America’s last real wild man The creator of the first commercial anti-virus software was one of a kind BY BEN SIXSMITH John McAfee describes as himself as a lover of women, adventure and mystery. John McAfee, who died yesterday, was one of the...