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“Piercings are technically considered a body modification, and we are in such a time of cultural unrest and turmoil, there's solace in owning the right to one's image and having control over one's body,” Spradlin believes. “Sure it's not a completely radical act, but almost a form of self-care in a way, which would explain the demand for a safer an... See more

A study from researchers at the University of California at Berkeley found that higher temperatures and shifting patterns of extreme weather can cause a rise in all types of violence, from domestic abuse to civil wars. In extreme cases, it could cause countries to cease functioning and collapse altogether.

The internet phenomenon that is Wikipedia does not use “straightforward rewards” as the basis of its incentive system. Millions of people contribute to the online encyclopedia, but aren’t incentivized to do so through explicit reinforcement.

You’ve felt this, right? Whenever we sit down to create something digital, we now have nigh-infinite storage space, massive amounts of processing power, free trial-periods for design software, and more. It leads to the “paradox of choice”: We wind up feeling not creatively free, but creatively  stuck.  When you have too many options it’s

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3. On-Chain Reputation & Identity

It has become popular to say we live in the information age, and we need curation to help us sort through the mess. But thus far, the conversation around “curation” has been too focused on the content and not enough on the structure. We seem to have accepted the job of the curator as providing a product review, a list of links, a song recommendatio... See more

Today, crypto technologies like decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) enable a new model of character development and ownership that could not only unbundle creative media, but also lower the barrier to entry for online communities to bring new characters into the world.