Буки 2.0 пристигнува во четврток!
WE NEED MORE AMATEURS IN SCIENCE!
Had a lot of fun with this NeuroLibre preprint, big thank you to Evelyn McLean, Jane Abdo, and Nadia Blostein for putting it together!
Also thanks to Aella, The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, Slime Mold Time Mold, Roger's Bacon and Seeds of Science for their science and for the interviews
Instructions how to donate your voice to Buki 2.0 via the Mozilla Common Voice platform.
Macedonian speakers, help us train our open-source transcription tool
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We can never remember how many Gauss are in 1 Tesla (10,000) and how many satoshis are in 1 bitcoin (100,000,000).
Today we realized that bitcoin/satoshi = (Tesla/Gauss)^2 and our mnemonic needs are satisfied for the day
There's a popular theory by Erik Hoel that we stopped producing Einsteins because we perverted the concept of tutoring and mentorship. In the past tutors were world-class scientists who expanded the horizons of their gifted students. Today tutors are pragmatic professionals who help our children score high on standardized tests.
Our Foundation is providing mentorship of the old-school kind. Our director’s essay on this topic is personable, eloquent, and inspiring
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Four events and a preview
Our foundation is gearing up for a fun month ahead, including NeuroLibre day, European research night at Europe House Skopje, the Parlez-vous fran-sci collaboration with the Skopje French Institute, and the third Science for kids conference.
That, plus a sneak preview of a special project, at the link below
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-18-four-events-and-a-preview
Parlez-vous Fran-sci?
We partnered up with Institut Français in Skopje to promote French science at the upcoming Science for Kids conference on October 18-19
“I won’t live to see the era of routine genetic engineering. But its eventual arrival is vastly more certain than that of superintelligent AI, or of the colonization of distant plans, or of finding a cure for death.”
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-and-genes-grab-bag
A thread of quotes from Submission by Houellebecq 1/n
Our Foundation KANTAROT announced an award for best science reporting by an elementary school student in Macedonia.
The award honors the legacy of Aleksandar Stikov and hopes to promote science journalism in Macedonian
Matt Taibi teaches language gymnastics. Leave it to the Russians to show you the way
https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/the-race-to-year-zero 
A nice round ATH 
“Social media is the dark twin of ritual. It never achieves wholeness or closure.”
Ted Gioia on the need for rituals in the digital age