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The tower has caught the rocket!!

On Friday we are organizing the third Science for Kids conference in Macedonia! For the opening ceremony five talented kids prepared lectures in collaboration with Macedonian scientists abroad: Petar Popovski Panče Naumov, PhD ACSF FRSC Aleksandar Shulevski Marko Shuntov, Borjana Arsova and Blaze Gjorgiev

2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹−1, discovered today, is the largest known prime. It's a Mersenne prime (2ᵖ-1), which are easier to find. It took nearly 6 years for the GIMPS software to find it after the previous largest known prime. It was also the first Mersenne prime found using GPUs.

64 years ago today, John Coltrane started recording "My Favorite Things" On an October afternoon in 1960 in an Atlantic Records session, this album was set to become a jazz cornerstone... Why was it legendary? Let's explore... A thread🧵

Our students decided to make tailored Halloween decorations

An academic’s academic

All languages covey information at a similar rate when spoken (39bits/s). Languages that are spoken faster have less information density per syllable! One of the coolest results in linguistics.

This meme was a small moment of enlightenment for me a long long while back

I am going to use this graph in information theory lectures when defining bit as a measure of highest uncertainty for two possible outcomes.

I would add a footnote: “Guessing who the reviewers were is left as an exercise for the reader”.

This is hilarious

Good day to remember just how big that green tree is

One of the things that looked impossible in 1900

Sean Carroll has thoughtful reflections on what science and university is, explains clearly why the DOGE cuts to science can have dire consequences.

Time to re-read this book.

My new piece in Jacobin What Comes After Globalization? jacobin.com/2025/03/what-c…

This is such a fascinating graph. A frequency drop of 0.15Hz was enough to take down Spain and Portugal.

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Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word. nyer.cm/lR8Kgir