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25 Cryptocurrencies You Should Know About

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MakeUseOf – Here’s an overview of the most prominent cryptocurrencies: when they started, who founded them, and other interesting facts: “There are tens of thousands of cryptocurrencies and that number grows by the day. However, most of these cryptocurrencies aren’t significant and amount to nothing more than a personal project; it’s relatively easy to make a cryptocurrency nowadays, so there’s no surprise that there are so many. Less than 3,000 of these cryptocurrencies have any meaningful market cap. Most don’t have any market cap at all, as they have no coins in circulation. At the time of writing, the largest crypto remains Bitcoin—it’s certainly the coin most people are aware of, even if they don’t understand cryptocurrency. To help you get a better grasp on the crypto market, we’ve rounded up a list of the top 25 cryptocurrencies worth knowing about, which account for more than 90% of the value of the entire industry.

Reflections on Teaching Constitutional Law in the Midst of Constitutional Crisis

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Kammer, Sean, Reflections on Teaching Constitutional Law in the Midst of Constitutional Crisis (September 13, 2021). South Dakota Law Review, Vol. 67, No. 2, 2022, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3923105 “The events of Jan. 6, 2021 at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. brought the U.S. Constitution to the forefront of the minds of citizens across… Continue Reading

PubMed Central Website has a Fresh Look First Step in Ongoing Modernization Complete

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“The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce an update to the user interface of its PubMed Central (PMC) digital archive—a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles. PMC’s fresh look and feel is the first step in an ongoing effort to modernize PMC, create a more accessible user experience… Continue Reading

Activist Publishes Redacted Version of Classified Military UFO Report

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Motherboard/Vice: “Last June, the Department of Defense released a long-awaited and much-hyped document called “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” detailing the government’s knowledge of UFOs and its programs trying to detect and catalog them. Many UFOlogists hoped that the “UFO report” would be a watershed moment in the field, showing that the government was taking… Continue Reading

Legislation seeks to block lengthy gag orders on tech firms after government surveillance

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The Hill: “Government agencies would no longer be able to indefinitely conceal their secret seizure of email records under legislation introduced Tuesday that takes aim at gag orders. The Government Surveillance Transparency Act, sponsored by a bipartisan group of lawmakers from both chambers, puts limitations on gag orders that seek to block tech companies from… Continue Reading

COVID-19: Understanding long COVID

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Emery University: “For some individuals, the road to recovery from COVID-19 is long. While most people recover from mild COVID-19 symptoms over the course of one to two weeks, “long-haul” patients can suffer from lingering symptoms for months on end. This syndrome, called post-acute COVID-19 or “long COVID,” can have devastating effects on the daily… Continue Reading

Fire Information for Resource Management System

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NASA FIRMS: Providing Active Fire Data for Near-Real Time Monitoring and Applications. “The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) distributes Near Real-Time (NRT) active fire data within 3 hours of satellite observation from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua and Terra satellites, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard… Continue Reading

The internet is #MoreThanFour – our laws should reflect that

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“The Open Internet Alliance aims to strengthen the advocacy voice of medium-sized companies and organisations that promote and defend Open Internet principles. We welcome participation from other like-minded companies. The Open Internet is at a crossroads in Europe. With the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, the EU has an opportunity to create… Continue Reading

Rarely Published Maps and Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien Go Online

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Smithsonian Magazine: “The Tolkien Estate recently published a trove of rare, unpublished art by the famed fantasy author on its website…In his high-fantasy novels, British author J.R.R. Tolkien combined his academic training in languages and his love of storytelling to create Middle-earth, a fictional continent populated by wizards, elves, orcs, dragons, hobbits, talking trees and… Continue Reading