January 2021

Denelle Dixon (Photo courtesy Stellar Development Foundation. All rights reserved)

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Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) have announced an agreement to work together on the development of a digital currency that will be issued by the national central bank. Undersecretary Oleksandr Bornyakov stated that he believes this collaboration will contribute to the development of the virtual asset industry and its integration into the global finance ecosystem. SDF developed Stellar, a free / open source and decentralized protocol for transfers between cryptocurrency and common (fiat) currency. Lumen (XLM) is a cryptocurrency created using this protocol, and its value has grown significantly since this announcement.

Project Tau by Jude Austin

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The novel “Project Tau” by Jude Austin was published for the first time in 2016. It’s the first book in the Projects series.

Kalin Taylor is about to start college thanks to a scholarship that will allow him to study medicine. However, to be admitted to a college frat house, he must enter a laboratory and take a photograph of Project Tau, a genetically modified creature.

When Kalin sneaks into the laboratory, he’s quickly discovered by security and captured. The director offers to spare him the big legal trouble he could cause if he were willing to undergo a series of medical tests in the laboratory. Soon, Kalin realizes that exams are just the first step in turning him into an experiment, Project Kata.

Book (David Ajala) and Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in There Is a Tide... (Image courtesy CBS / Netflix. All rights reserved)

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“There Is a Tide…” is the 12th episode of the 3rd season of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery” and follows “Su’Kal”.

Osyraa (Janet Kidder) has taken control of the USS Discovery and uses a ruse to penetrate Federation headquarters. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Book (David Ajala) must use a transwarp tunnel to be able to reach the starship and land inside it. Osyraa proposes a treaty to Admiral Charles Vance (Oded Fehr).