Mel C was sexually assaulted the night before the first live Spice Girls performance. Here's why she's talking about it now.
The Spice Girls's Melanie Chisholm (better known as Mel C or Sporty Spice) has penned a new memoir, The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl, in which she writes about having been sexually assaulted by a massage therapist in Istanbul, Turkey, on the night before the group's first live performance in the ’90s. "It happened to me on the night before the first ever Spice Girls live performance. And we'd never done a full-length concert before, so, obviously, we'd rehearsed for...
Mel C was sexually assaulted the night before the first live Spice Girls performance. Here's why she's talking about it now.
The Spice Girls's Melanie Chisholm (better known as Mel C or Sporty Spice) has penned a new memoir, The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl, in which she writes about having been sexually assaulted by a massage therapist in Istanbul, Turkey, on the night before the group's first live performance in the ’90s. "It happened to me on the night before the first ever Spice Girls live performance. And we'd never done a full-length concert before, so, obviously, we'd rehearsed for...
Blockspace: What Comes After PCs, Broadband, and Smartphones
*This post originally ran in The Generalist newsletter by Mario Gabriele under the headline “Blockspace: An Introduction with Chris Dixon” on May 15, 2022. * Just a few months ago, Chris Dixon, general partner at a16z crypto, said, “I think blockspace is the best product to be selling in the 2020s.” I remember hearing those words on the Bankless podcast and being unsure whether I grasped the magnitude of what he meant. So, I asked him. Indeed, I asked him just about every question I could thi...
Blockspace: What Comes After PCs, Broadband, and Smartphones
*This post originally ran in The Generalist newsletter by Mario Gabriele under the headline “Blockspace: An Introduction with Chris Dixon” on May 15, 2022. * Just a few months ago, Chris Dixon, general partner at a16z crypto, said, “I think blockspace is the best product to be selling in the 2020s.” I remember hearing those words on the Bankless podcast and being unsure whether I grasped the magnitude of what he meant. So, I asked him. Indeed, I asked him just about every question I could thi...
How to pick a DAO legal entity
DAOs – decentralized autonomous organizations – are an essential tool in achieving the self-empowering benefits of web3, including more equitable ownership among stakeholders, reduced censorship and greater diversity. DAOs advance web3’s benefits by enabling decentralization. They allow developer companies to hand control of the developed networks and protocols to users, most commonly through the distribution of governance tokens. This process effectively turns the networks and protocols into...
How to pick a DAO legal entity
DAOs – decentralized autonomous organizations – are an essential tool in achieving the self-empowering benefits of web3, including more equitable ownership among stakeholders, reduced censorship and greater diversity. DAOs advance web3’s benefits by enabling decentralization. They allow developer companies to hand control of the developed networks and protocols to users, most commonly through the distribution of governance tokens. This process effectively turns the networks and protocols into...
Investing in Stoik
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Investing in Stoik
FacebookLinkedInTwitterBuying traditional insurance is a no-brainer if you want to protect assets of value—be it your life, your home, or your business. If you own, say, a building, chances are you’ll want to minimize your risk against fires, floods, and other tangible natural disasters. Buying cyber insurance, however, is a much more abstract concept for businesses to grasp—especially small to midsize enterprises (SMEs). However, even though data breaches, ransomware attacks, and malware inf...
Investing in IDRx
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Investing in IDRx
FacebookLinkedInTwitterHIV ravaged entire communities before antiretroviral cocktail therapies helped turn the tide. Cocktail therapies combine multiple drugs: Some hit parts of the replication machinery the virus uses to make copies of itself, others block its ability to attack and enter our cells. By pursuing multiple lines of attack in parallel, combination therapies keep viral levels low and leave fewer opportunities for the virus to mutate and develop therapeutic resistance. This approac...
