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Kid-friendly announcements followed by adult-friendly food for thought
1. There are only four days left to participate in our Scratch for Switch competition. We invite any Scratch enthusiasts to build a game for a chance to win a Nintendo Switch. Please share with your friends and with their kids, there is nothing better than a weekend Scratch-athon!
https://naukazadeca.mk/ScratchZaSwitch/
2. Our Science for Kids experiment kits were given out as awards for the Eduino game-athon. In 2022 our kits will reach many more elementary school students, stay tuned for the announcement!
3. The portal umno.mk published Nikola Stikov's opinion piece about everybody's favorite Macedonian book, Zoki Poki. It has been their most popular post for the past two days:
https://umno.mk/ovoj-zoki-poki-ne-e-za-vtoro-oddelenie/
I noticed my daughter struggling with Zoki Poki, and then realized that the book she was reading is not the same as the one that I grew up with. I hope the abbreviated and illustrated version of Zoki Poki will be reprinted by publishers, so that second-graders can start enjoying it again.
4. Congratulations to S(c)iesta members Panche Naumov, Petar Popovski and Zoran Hadzi-Velkov for being nominated to the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts!
https://umno.mk/manu-gi-objavi-iminjata/
5. Paper has a permanence that the internet doesn't:
Some information sticks around when it shouldn’t, while other information vanishes when it should remain.
6. Fans of "Gödel, Escher Bach" should check out this video, and vice versa:
7. Balaji Srinivasan was on the Tim Ferris podcast again. They spoke for four and a half hours, and every minute is worth it: