“It’s a bizarre, bizarre thing to ask, to seek to make Yale a tool of equality. The Ivy League exists to reward, foster, and showcase inequality."
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/one-more-time-you-cant-make-a-competitive
Thanks for sharing this, it is a fascinating read!
Our favourite bit is when you are brainstorming about giving bitcoin traction. Still relevant, even after creating a trillion dollar market
https://twitter.com/qantarot/status/1761402472587825354/photo/1
Announcing #MRathon 2024, a hackathon for increasing MRI accessibility!
Join us for socializing (May 2) and hacking (May 3) in the beautiful Jackie Chan Heritage house at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. The hackathon is a collaboration with the ezyMRI NerdFest, big thank you to our local organizers Huang Shaoying and Le Thu Thao!
Registration is based on a voluntary donation. $50+ donations get you a VIP ticket to the MRathon Highlights after-party on May 9, celebrating 40 years of the journal Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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THE WORLD IS 100 TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT!!!
The size of the polygons shows the fraction of world debt each country owes.
The colors show the debt as a fraction of that country's GDP. The green ones have debt greater than their GDP! 
“Height is so socially valuable and so utterly outside of our control that it feels like God invented it to demonstrate the folly of meritocracy.”
Freddie de Boer on being weird
"... what one regulator thinks about bitcoin is irrelevant. I am celebrating the right of American investors to express their thoughts on bitcoin by buying and selling spot bitcoin ETPs."
Commissioner Hester M. Peirce on the recent SEC decision:
https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/peirce-statement-spot-bitcoin-011023
"The truth hidden below the surface of the story is a hard one: Nothing makes any sense. We do not get what we deserve. If we are lucky, we get more. If we are unlucky, we get less [...] That's the system."
Roger Ebert on the one thing we all talk about
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/13-conversations-about-one-thing-2002
"I will never understand why our culture grew so obsessed with mental illness and depression and so contemptuous towards people who wanted to put those things into art, to give everyone a way to feel them."
“I don’t need to do anything to deserve the truth. The truth is not deserved. That is not how the truth works.”
Freddie DeBoer about the price of being ostracized
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/what-purpose-do-i-serve-in-your-life-ed8
'[The] screenwriting lacks a shade in clarity, but then, so do the lives of these characters.'
Roger Ebert about Bellflower, a mumblecore rom-com with flamethrowers
“They’re looking out so far in the distance, they don’t even see the blood or corpses."
Ted Gioia on the dangers of effective altruism
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/why-i-ran-away-from-philosophy-because
Some wisdom from Jeff Smith's Bone 
An unrecognizable Ricky Gervais, back when he was a musician
"Or maybe it's a tripleheader: Maybe the environment is poisoned, and the group is phony, and Carol is gnawing away at her own psychic health. Now there's a fine mess."
Roger Ebert on Todd Haynes' "Safe", a subversive take on our modern illnesses
We will only publish one research article this year. This is the one!
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/crowdsourcing-the-research-article
Glyn Johns' testimony about Let it be closely matches the story told in Peter Jackson's Get Back
https://people.com/music/long-winding-story-of-glyn-johns-lost-beatles-album-get-back/
"They love humanity as an abstraction but despise it in the flesh."
Our answer to the question of reproducibility, transparency and innovation in academic publishing
42 co-authors, 94 datasets from 18 sites, 5 interactive figures and an award-winning dashboard, all bundled in our most ambitious NeuroLibre preprint yet.
Check it out at the link below!
We are getting ready to unleash our science fantasy during the second Science for kids conference!
We poured our heart and soul in this two-minute video summarizing our Science for Kids initiative.
Big thank you to the marketing agency Publicis for making the video and to the band Bei the Fish for providing the soundtrack!