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• NFT representing Tim Berners-Lee source code of the web to go on sale

  15-06-2021 13:00
  
  Sotheby’s to auction digital artefact, This Changed Everything, more than 32 years after world wide web first proposedSir Tim Berners-Lee will sell an NFT representing the source code of the world wide web at Sotheby’s, the auction house has announced, more than 32 years after his first proposal for the project was dismissed by a supervisor as “vague, but exciting”.The sale, proceeds from which will be used to benefit initiatives that Berners-Lee and his wife, Rosemary Le
  
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• Southbank Centre to showcase art made by Britons shielding from Covid

  15-06-2021 07:00
  
  Exclusive: more than 600 pieces created as part of Art by Post initiative to go on display in London before touring Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage More than 600 pieces of art created by thousands of people who were shielding and in extreme isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic will tour this year as part of a Southbank Centre exhibition that aims to showcase the importance of creativity.More than 4,500 people have taken part in the Art by Post initiative, whi
  
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• Hilma af Klint’s ‘miraculous’ art: ‘In dialogue with spirits, she found her own voice’

  15-06-2021 03:02
  
  An expansive new exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW pays tribute to one of the most important art pioneers you’ve never heard ofWhen encountering the little-known work of Hilma af Klint, you may find yourself asking some questions. “It’s out of time and out of place; it’s almost miraculous,” says Sue Cramer, who co-curated a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. “What is this work? Where did it come from? How did it get here?”Born in 18
  
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• The Purpose Of Scientific Papers?

  15-06-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s enough for them to draw attention to an idea that is worth pursuing further—and an idea need not be true, well-justified given all our evidence, nor even believed by the scientist in order to pass that test. – Nautilus
  
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