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Insider spoke with several artists and industry experts to see how they feel about the NFT craze.
Some see NFTs as simply a trend among investors that involves little substantive cultural interest.
Others see the value it could hold for artists themselves, especially in regards to payment for art.
In the past month, non-fungible tokens have skyrocketed in popularity, with NFT art pieces selling for millions of dollars. One of the most notable instances is an artist named Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, who sold a piece for nearly $70 million in March.
Let it grow, let it grow, don t hold it back anymore!
By Lyra HaleApr 28th, 2021, 3:15 pm
An article from The Washington Post titled “1 in 6 Gen Z adults are LGBT. And this number could continue to grow.” has had new life breathed into it after Twitter got a hold of it. Most of the hilarious responses were born from a tweet that asked, “Why is this written like a threat?” And the responses that came in from other Twitter users were so on point that we had to collect the best ones.
Unless our demands are met we will continue turning up this little dial labelled ‘LBGT’
The line between alive and dead is often murky, argues New York Times science columnist Carl Zimmer
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Carl Zimmer s new book explores the nature of life, including questions like whether a cut rose is still alive.(Lisa Mariee Williams/Getty Images) comments
Quirks and Quarks17:03Contemplating what it means to be alive in the new book ‘Life’s Edge’
About 4 billion years ago, give or take a couple of hundred million years, the whole trouble started.
In a warm puddle, or perhaps around a geothermal vent in the deep ocean, or perhaps somewhere we haven t identified yet, a mixture of chemicals started to do something new something more complicated than they d done before. It was the dawn of life.
Lucille Clifton: A Life in Poetry
Author:
Lucille Clifton
In 2012,
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton (1965-2010) was published by BOA Editions, Ltd. This book presents a backward glance over the career of the once-Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and renowned educator Lucille Clifton. It is a poetic testimony to both poetry of all styles and poets across the globe. Clifton has firmly planted herself alongside other greats of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.
The volume presents all the poems Clifton published in book form during her life plus previously unpublished and uncollected poems. The foreword is written by Toni Morrison, who describes Clifton’s poetry as “moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness…they are eloquent elegies for the vulnerable and prematurely dead. She sifts the history of African Americans for honor.” Clifton’s poetry is phenomenally varied and simultaneously of the moment – fresh and forwar