Of the many firsts, 2021 is the first time two women have been nominated for best director in the same year (Chloe Zhao for Nomadland and Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman).
Just like that, Beeple, a relatively unknown graphic designer from South Carolina, is now among the top three most valuable living artists, joining the ranks of Jeff Koons and David Hockney.
The fierce rivals are investing heavily in their digital capabilities, from how they design sneakers to how they manufacture them and ultimately how they sell them.
Covid-19 was good for very few things. One of them is telehealth.
Telehealth or telemedicine two interchangeable terms for interacting with a healthcare professional remotely increased 54% in the US in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the early months of the pandemic the increases peaked at 150%, and three out of every four emergency visits were conducted via telehealth.
In the span of a few months, some of the largest providers of Johns Hopkins Medicine’s network of clinics in Baltimore went from delivering less than 70 telemedicine visits per month to up to 90,000 a month.