“… I often find myself wondering how many members have ever been involved in community-run projects in the past.” Molly White believes that many web3 projects struggle or fail because their members don’t seem to have any experience with running community-driven projects. As a longtime Wikipedia editor, White knows the struggles that community-driven project members face, among which is an inevitable division among the community over certain decisions and harassment within the community itself. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
