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!
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Science, culture and mental fitness
“As is true of so many contemporary progressive norms, this prohibition belittles and condescends to the very people it ostensibly honors.”
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
Progressives can still succeed if they call out nonsense, focus on class, and start to talk like human beings again, argues Freddie deBoer in an ex...
Зборот инфлуенсер не постоеше тогаш, но Аце Стиков беше токму тоа, човек кој можеше со еден збор да влијае врз симпатиите на милионска публика. Можеше, ама не го правеше тоа.
Колега Стиков, се слушаме!
Зборот инфлуенсер не постоеше тогаш, но татко ми беше токму тоа, човек кој можеше...
At the beginnings of the internet, Scottish musician/blogger Momus said that in the future everybody will be famous for 15 people.
Here is Erik Hoel's excellent 2023 remix of that theme
Walled gardens mean online writing is dead. Long live online writing!
Federated social networks as the future
“The internet has been from its beginning an all-consuming, collectively-generated information swarm. It changes over time, expunging old corridors or gardens or cities, while raising new playgrounds and towers and stadiums, and it remembers nothing.”
Bitcoin to the rescue!
Encyclopedia Titanica
pirate wires #96 // google nukes a whole ass historical record, our shapeshifting internet rewires the
Our birthday newsletter is out!
Two years as a foundation, ten years as a blog, thank you for your support!
Libra-net (14): Ten years
This summer we celebrated our ten-year anniversary. This autumn we are planning the second Science for Kids conference, and we are asking for your ...
A shitty high if there ever was one
Jenkem - Wikipedia
“…the out-and-out abandonment of the notion that love is the noblest pursuit of human life says a lot about our cult of self-worship. Because once you’ve dropped the romantic ideal, that’s all our culture really has to offer.”
No One is Kenough
yes I'm doing Barbie discourse three weeks too late
“Managerialism has today conquered the world so thoroughly that to most of us it may seem like the only possible universe, the very water in which we swim.”
The China Convergence
Yes, the West is becoming more like China. Here is the real reason why.
Bitcoin maximalists would agree
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Десет години КАНТАРОТ
Денес КАНТАРОТ слави една деценија постоење! Време е за кратка ретроспектива и у...
“A move towards subjectivity will end up being a move towards mediocrity.”
Rethinking Higher Ed with Harvard’s Former President
Larry Summers reveals why universities should ban legacy admissions, scrap elite sports, and make a first-rate education more available to all.
The misconduct allegations have been around for 20+ years, but the retractions and resignation of Stanford's president are a direct consequence of the recent investigation of the Stanford Daily 1/3
The Stanford Daily
Stanford president resigns over manipulated research
Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will resign effective Aug. 31. He will also retract or issue lengthy corrections to five widely cited paper...
“I suspect the biggest source of moral taboos will turn out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the upper hand. That's where you'll find a group powerful enough to enforce taboos, but weak enough to need them.”
What You Can't Say
"A blind person, marooned on a desert island untouched by society, is worse off than a sighted person on the same desert island. Here the problem is clearly caused by the blindness, not by any social response to it."
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“Force begins requesting modest changes to recruiting to make it “more fair.” Force ends with the heavy-handed application of quotas and even exclusion.”
Palladium Magazine
Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis
There are two kinds of people: those that respond to Doodle polls and those who actually show up
A Q&A with Nikola Stikov about (dis)information, originally published by
UMNO.MK
Navigating the oceans of (dis)information
Instead of collecting information like a computer, gather experiences as a human being.
The third season of Love, Death & Robots is the bloodiest, but also probably the best in the series.
The science fiction elements have been toned down, the body horror (and the body count) has been amped up, and the end result is a more visceral and thrilling viewing experience.
“don’t trust people who believe that they have arrived at the end of time, or at its culmination, or that they exist outside of it. Never believe anyone who thinks that they are looking at the world from outside of the world, at history from outside of history.”
AI, Ozymandias
In the waning years of the 1800s, during the late Victorian era, some came to believe that human knowledge would soon be perfected.