A night of classical music revival in Fort Smith, Arkansas. This past Saturday, April 22nd, something very special happened in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A concert was given consisting entirely of music by the late Native American classical music composer, Louis W. Ballard. …

While a global viral pandemic with enforced “social distancing” and temporary closure of performance venues lasting years worldwide may not seem like the ideal time to think about long buried classical music, the disruption in normal programming actually presented such an opportunity to those who were prepared for it. Within…

[a memo written towards the Nieux Society on August 29th] I’m writing a longer intro post here to properly introduce myself since I’m a minted member but have only attended a few events so far. My name is Simone Ballard and I’m a Tulane alumna from 2015. I studied environmental…

What can the ultimate financing structure readily unleash? The year is 2022. The world as we know it looks quite familiar; people still work, everyone still needs food, water, and shelter, and time is marked by milestones shared on social media. Throughout the world governments still function as enforcement entities…

An overview of staking, stacking, and proofs for all the diamond hands out there — There is no easy way to say this. Crypto is failing. Failing to deliver the revolution that it so readily promised the mainstreamers months ago. Turn away from your arcane and backwards institutions and let us provide you with unending security and borderless transfers away from corrupt countries and valueless…

Bitcoin has reached a record high in price and market cap during a global pandemic from 2020–2021, with Ethereum and altcoins reaching record highs as well. None of this seems to really be an accident, as cryptocurrency’s true foundational nature has been steadily getting ready to shine during chaos. The…

The journey towards Restful & Full-Stack Engineering “Full-Stack” is a loaded term these days. In its most fundamental form, a full stack application has both a frontend and backend that interact closely to produce a complete user experience. GeeksforGeeks describes a full stack developer as someone who can not only…

Atmospheric Water Generation (AWG) is a category covering a diversity of technologies that can produce potable drinking water directly from the air. These technologies have expanded the capacity to generate one’s own water source even in remote locations, and are growing in popularity as water and infrastructure challenges continue to…

Here at Lambda school we are an ambitious cohort who launched ourselves fully into an immersion coding bootcamp experience accidentally during a global pandemic. In the seven months since this group started, the world has actually changed drastically and online communications have moved front and center for home and business…