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2025-09-23 14:32:58 UTC

Updates from our foundation!
1. S(c)iesta conversations with Martin Saveski, Viktor Gruev and Vanja Josifovski
2. A science caravan featuring Aleksandar Dinev and the Unitree AI dog
3. An award for outstanding science potential for all 9th graders in Macedonia
4. A collaboration with the Dutch Embassy in Skopje to promote Dutch science
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-22-summers-almost-gone

2025-09-10 18:13:44 UTC

Calling all 9th graders in Macedonia!
We just announced the Science for Kids prize for outstanding scientific potential.
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/767

2025-09-05 10:56:34 UTC

Биди Ќостаровец!
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/767

2025-08-25 22:42:00 UTC

Ник Ќејф
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/cfc

2025-06-05 08:37:14 UTC

Proud to make the Top 100 "Rising in science" list on Substack!
We are currently#61, subscribe to keep us rising:
qantarot.substack.com
https://blossom.primal.net/b56b5c158e5654bc01a5810e09452d051af9b7b6624a3145fe3f77cebcb5e512.png

2025-03-28 09:47:10 UTC

Are you sure you want that screening test?
https://unherd.com/2019/02/is-cancer-screening-doing-more-harm-than-good/

2025-03-05 09:56:35 UTC

Our foundation KANTAROT and SCIENCE FOR KIDS won the 2024 best conference award from BEAM (Best Event Awards Macedonia)!!!
https://m.primal.net/PUWf.jpg

2025-01-26 10:07:01 UTC

MRathon is joining forces with the MRS hackathon right before the ISMRM 2025 meeting in Hawaii! Registration is now open, register at the link below:
https://mrathon.github.io/honolulu2025/

2025-01-24 15:43:55 UTC

Слушајте ја нашата директорка Драгана Стикова и учете со разбирање!
https://x.com/i/status/1882816342006583768

2025-01-22 14:30:54 UTC

Првиот блог пост на КАНТАРОТ беше посветен на Дејвид Линч. 12 години подоцна се збогуваме со човекот кој знаеше од соништата да направи уметност, и обратно...
https://qantarot.blogspot.com/2013/07/blog-post.html

2024-12-24 14:06:29 UTC

Буки 2.0 пристигнува во четврток!
https://x.com/qantarot/status/1871557691598102956/photo/1

2024-11-02 09:27:52 UTC

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

2024-10-30 11:44:06 UTC

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
https://umno.mk/naukata-e-prijatelka/

2024-10-16 10:14:06 UTC

Кој донира (не) транскрибира
Донирајте го вашиот глас (или пари) за да го усовршиме Буки и да го направиме достапен за сите
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/buki

2024-09-09 12:55:38 UTC

“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

2024-08-25 13:56:31 UTC

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The blindness of the elites 2/n
https://m.primal.net/KMNT.png

2024-08-25 13:14:06 UTC

A thread of quotes from Submission by Houellebecq 1/n
https://m.primal.net/KMJc.png

2024-06-14 11:52:16 UTC

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
https://naukazadeca.mk/kolegastikov

2024-05-31 20:44:40 UTC

https://www.piratewires.com/p/bug-man-vs-the-robots https://image.nostr.build/e9edc19e35b457c9f48dee9300236391c05e9bc3f26992f15c528e3cb67c018a.jpg

2024-03-12 05:21:34 UTC

A nice round ATH https://image.nostr.build/28a8c532c37fc407443cfb807b4c348843734bfc8880573ac02c412d919dc993.jpg

2024-02-27 19:22:00 UTC

Svaka čast @npub16c0…6nvr
https://x.com/prestonpysh/status/1762501773724410281?s=46&t=FlkpaqKLGAY_LD1217_V3g

2024-02-25 08:30:04 UTC

“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
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/13-observations-on-ritual

2024-01-20 06:17:47 UTC

“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
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/weird

2023-12-05 00:24:01 UTC

"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."
https://open.substack.com/pub/freddiedeboer/p/an-ode-to-i-hate-myself-and-i-want?r=54xxz&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

2023-11-05 15:33:55 UTC

“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

2023-10-23 13:56:28 UTC

An unrecognizable Ricky Gervais, back when he was a musician
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABjYSxyUD98

2023-10-15 19:21:02 UTC

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/

2023-10-02 16:01:40 UTC

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!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuGeNj-NGBA

2023-08-28 13:36:45 UTC

“…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.”
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/no-one-is-kenough

2023-07-20 06:06:46 UTC

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Yes, retractions look bad, but academic journals need to take responsibility. Sitting on this information for 20+ years and hoping it blows over is a big reason why the faith in journals is decreasing.
3/3

2023-07-20 06:06:12 UTC

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
https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/stanford-president-resigns-over-manipulated-research-will-retract-at-least-3-papers/

2023-07-15 10:15:37 UTC

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“Coasters realize that they need to work just slightly harder than the worst individual on their team. Their shirking is likely to go unnoticed and they are unlikely to feel enough emotional connection to the organization to raise alarm when critical mistakes are being made.”

2023-07-15 10:14:57 UTC

“Force begins requesting modest changes to recruiting to make it “more fair.” Force ends with the heavy-handed application of quotas and even exclusion.”
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/

2023-07-06 21:47:06 UTC

“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.”
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/ai-or-the-eternal-recurrence-of-hubris

2023-07-05 23:22:56 UTC

Getting good restaurant service in Montreal is getting increasingly difficult. Many restaurants are only open ~15 hours a week (Kazu), making a reservation comes with a $40 per person cancellation charge (Saint), empty restaurants cannot seat you because all their tables are supposedly reserved (Passé Composé) and two-hour limits are becoming the norm. Some places will even cancel a reservation made two months ago using lame excuses (Yoko Luna)
Makes you wonder if these businesses are functioning in a free market or if they are copying the Soviet Union
“How to explain; how to explain that the doors of Moscow’s eating-places indeed opened only to those entitled to pass through them, and that there were remarkably few places where you could hope to be fed simply by turning up with money.”
— Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
https://a.co/0I0dvsx

2023-07-04 22:52:32 UTC

'Filmed with ferocious energy and with enough sexual variety to match late Fellini, it may be passing through standard bookings on its way to a long run as the midnight successor to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." '
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-2001

2023-06-29 01:37:37 UTC

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2023-06-25 20:04:36 UTC

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You are an excellent step in that direction:)

2023-06-23 16:04:20 UTC

#ObsessiveSurfing for June 23
The movie adaptation of the musical 13 was directed by Tamra Davis, a veteran music video/film director. Davis was married to Mike D from the Beastie Boys. Mike D produced songs for Portugal. The Man. And guess what, Portugal. The Man have a new album with some pretty good songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xT0vWporWs

2023-06-22 23:05:43 UTC

'Joan is awful' is plain brilliant! Deepfakes, multiverses, and informed consent nightmares all rolled into one perfect Black Mirror episode

2023-06-11 20:47:37 UTC

This is the most important essay you will read today (or this year). You might disagree with some of it, but it will haunt you like a good horror story
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1667842377547935745?s=46&t=FlkpaqKLGAY_LD1217_V3g #note1jwh…wzwz

2023-06-11 20:36:25 UTC

'You don’t have diversity when you gather people who look different but talk and think alike. It’s not enough to hire the extras from the space-cantina scene in Star Wars.'
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2023/6/the-diversity-myth

2023-06-11 17:03:11 UTC

We hit it out of the ballpark this weekend!
https://twitter.com/qantarot/status/1667931713681408007?s=46&t=FlkpaqKLGAY_LD1217_V3g

2023-06-07 19:19:50 UTC

Спремни сме за живели со нашите поддржувачи во Торонто. Јунска С(ц)иеста во Don on Danforth, масонски храм претворен во ноќен клуб. #ISMRM23
VIP делот отвара во 19:30 на 8 јуни, контактирајте нѐ за билети
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyCvaoUXgAApcSl?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

2023-05-26 22:55:15 UTC

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And finally, the legendary Steve Martin number, the Dentist Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtMizMQ6oM

2023-05-26 22:50:48 UTC

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The Jack Nicholson scene in Corman’s movie served as an inspiration for the legendary scene between Steve Martin and Bill Murray in the 1986 musical
https://youtu.be/LPQSiTIb2Ac