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This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Withdrawal Issue”. Click here to subscribe now.A PDF pamphlet of this article is available for download.The world you live in was never disenchanted. The curse of disenchantment, otherwise known as the Age of Reason, achieved only a confusion of the sacred and profane. One particular manifestation is that all popular entertainments and media have their roots in shamanism, ritual, and divination. The fact that theater originated in sorcery, though broadly unfamiliar to the public, is well known in academia. In Phyllis Hartnoll’s A Concise History of the Theater (1971): “The origins of…

This article was supported by the O.R. Tambo Africa Research Chairs Initiative. [PRETORIA] Traditional gender norms continue to stymy the progress of women in science in Africa, says Hulda Swai, one of two women appointed as chairs at an African research initiative dedicated to anti-apartheid icon Oliver Tambo. The O.R. Tambo Africa Research Chairs Initiative (ORTARChI), which works to support research for socio-economic development across the continent, aspired to ensure that at least half of its chairs – appointed in 2020 for a five-year term – were women researchers. But only two slots out of the ten chairs slots ultimately…

The Fab Four signed the back of the card after a stunned cabbie was hired to give them a lift to their gig. At the time Beatlemania was at its peak following the release of the band’s first film, A Hard Day’s Night. Schoolgirl Sandra Lambert, then called Sandra Gerrard, was 13 when she tried to buy tickets to see her idols perform their hits at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester. Sandra aged 19 in the late 1960s with younger sister Val (Image: Hansons) Despite queueing at the ticket office all day, all three concert dates were sold out…

Image Credit: Wynn Las Vegas Wynn Las Vegas hosted several celebrities at various property hot spots, including XS Nighclub, during popular events this week. Wednesday, November 15, kicked off the busy week when the luxury resort and casino welcomed F1® teams, drivers, and more familiar faces on the property following the Las Vegas Grand Prix Opening Ceremony at Wynn’s renowned nightlife destination XS Nightclub. The exclusive invite-only event featured resident DJ Marshmello and many attendees, including will.i.am, Christian Horner, Toto Wolf, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, Guenther Steiner, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, Lando Norris, Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly,…

In a dramatic turn of events late Friday, ex-Y Combinator president Sam Altman was fired as CEO of AI startup OpenAI, the company behind viral AI hits like ChatGPT, GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, by OpenAI’s board of directors. Then, the company’s longtime president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, resigned — as did three senior OpenAI researchers. And the fallout continues. Tip TechCrunch Do you work at OpenAI and know more about Sam Altman’s departure? Get in touch with TechCrunch. It’s a fast-moving situation that we’re still trying to get to the bottom of. No doubt more will become clear as time…

SpaceX’s Starship, the uncrewed spacecraft designed for lunar and interplanetary travel, soared into space on its second test flight. Departing from SpaceX’s Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, the rocket aimed for a brief space sojourn before a planned Pacific Ocean landing near Hawaii. However, the mission encountered setbacks minutes after a promising start.   Stage Separation and Loss of Signal   After a successful lift-off, the spacecraft’s two stages – the Super Heavy booster and Starship – separated approximately two and a half minutes into the flight. However, SpaceX lost contact with the second stage soon after, leading to the…

Average daily transaction fees on Bitcoin (BTC)  have flipped with Ethereum following a frenzy of Ordinals-related activity on the Bitcoin network. On Nov. 20, the average daily transaction fee for Bitcoin stood at $10.34, while Ethereum’s transaction fees came to an average of $8.43, according to BitInfoChart data. Bitcoin’s average daily trading fee notched a new six-month high on Nov.16, reaching a peak of $18.67, while Ethereum fees reached $7.90.Bitcoin’s average daily fees have surged above Ethereum’s in the last five days. Source: BitInfoChartsThe sudden uptick in Bitcoin transaction fees stems from a renewed market appetite for assets inscribed with the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain In the Cuyama Valley north of Santa Barbara, lush green fields stretch across the desert. Sprinklers spray thousands of acres to grow a single thirsty crop: carrots. Wells and pumps pull groundwater from as deep as 680 feet, and the aquifer’s levels are dropping. As the valley’s only water source shrinks, a bitter legal battle over water rights has arisen between carrot growers and the community. Residents are fighting back with a campaign urging everyone to stop buying carrots. Along the valley’s roads, in cattle pastures and outside homes and businesses, signs and banners have sprung…

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