Author: Dr. Dean

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The Dune NFT Fiasco Is the Least of Crypto’s Legal Worries

Dr. Dean

BEFORE SPICE DAO dropped $3 million on a rare copy of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s production book for Dune at Christie’s, the group tweeted its intention to “tokenize” the book.

It can’t do that. (Wired)

More Than One Million Fewer College Students

Dr. Dean

More than 1 million fewer students are enrolled in college now than before the pandemic began. According to new data released Thursday, U.S. colleges and universities saw a drop of nearly 500,000 undergraduate students in the fall of 2021, continuing a historic decline that began the previous fall.

NPR

Skin Care Products-Less Is More

Dr. Dean

The authors “personal routine consists of cleansing with manuka honey,
a prebiotic that feeds the microbiome, and applying mineral SPF to
protect my skin from sun damage.” Jessica DeFino writing at Slate
offers us why less is more. 

MLK Acceptance Speech

Dr. Dean

So much of modern life can be summarized in that arresting dictum of the poet Thoreau:
‘Improved means to an unimproved end.’
This is the serious predicament, the deep and haunting problem confronting modern man.

Martin Luther King Jr.  
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 
December 10th, 1964

Full video and text of the speech