The Diversity of NFTs
While many people consider the phrase NFT to be synonymous with the increasingly popular and valuable digital art, that is only one of the many potential applications of the technology. The term NFT or, more formally, a non-fungible token, refers to any piece of digital information that is authenticated by a blockchain. While NFT art […]
A Gateway to Nature and History – Forests in Sweden
Over half of the land in Sweden is covered by forests. The most common trees are generally the pine and spruce in the forests of Sweden. Pine tends to be the dominant tree in the north, while the spruce tends to be more common in the south and particularly sharing land with the birch tree. […]
Explained: How NFTs Connect to Blockchain?
Non-fungible token or NFT is the latest sensation of the digital world. And blockchain is the three-decade-old technology that has made it possible. Often people who are not digital-savvy find these terms alien-sounding and refuse to engage with them. But in reality, these are simple concepts and similar to the transactions in the physical world. […]
Parenting: A Letter of Contrition
My son is in junior high school. One day, he came home and told me that he was asked by his teacher to write a letter of apology for an incident in music class that day. At first, I was surprised to hear this, because music is an elective class, so according to my own […]
The Rise of NFT Art: Overhyped or The Next Big Thing?
In the past 20-30 years, technology has improved in an exponential way when compared to the past. The smartphone computers that we carry in our pockets today put even the most sophisticated computers of the 90s and early 2000s to shame. As technology has grown, so too has our relationship with it. One of the […]
The 10 Astounding Space Structures Discovered in 2021
Orbiting more than 300 miles (480 kilometers) over Earth and separated by tens of millions of light-years from many of the interstellar objects it studies, the Hubble Space Telescope takes “working remotely” to a new extreme. Even as the world below grappled with another pandemic year, weird and wonderful space discoveries flooded in from above, with astronomers pulling back […]
An Ancient Greek Mechanism That Opened the Cosmos
When we think of early computers, we may recall the towering machines that were ubiquitous with the 1970s and 1980s. Those who go further into the history of computers may assert that the first was Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine. The modern history of technical evolution demonstrates a steady march toward the high-tech […]
In Welcoming 2022…
Another year has passed. 2021, which already seems to have gone down in history in so many different ways, is suffering towards the end and soon 2022 is here. 2021 was the year when a lot changed, both outside and within us. Some may have undergone greater transformations than others, but what we can all […]
$11-Billion Webb Space Telescope Launched Into Space
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is excited to see the James Webb Space Telescope open up the “secrets of the universe,” he told Space.com. “This is a one of a kind,” Nelson said about the James Webb Space Telescope, which is set to launch this Saturday (Dec. 25) at 7:20 a.m. EDT (1220 GMT) from the […]
How 3 Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts
Before March of this year, few probably thought disease could be a significant driver of human history. Not so anymore. People are beginning to understand that the little changes COVID-19 has already ushered in or accelerated – telemedicine, remote work, social distancing, the death of the handshake, online shopping, the virtual disappearance of cash and […]