The following is a conversation with Louise and Joao Botala, Brothers and co-founders of

Forma's library, which is an incredible platform for annotating papers. Is there right on the

Forma's library website, quote, Justice Pierre de Forma scribbled his famous last theorem in

the margins, professional scientists, academics, and citizens scientists can annotate equations,

figures, ideas, and right in the margins. Forma's library is also a really good Twitter account to

follow. I highly recommend it. They post little visual factoids and explorations that reveal

the beauty of mathematics. I love it. Quick mention of our sponsors. Skip, simply save,

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As a side note, let me say a few words about the dissemination of scientific ideas. I believe that

all scientific articles should be freely accessible to the public. They currently are not. In one

analysis I saw more than 70% of published research articles are behind a paywall. In case you don't

know, the funders of the research, whether that's government or industry, aren't the ones putting

up the paywall. The journals are the ones putting up the paywall while using unpaid labor from

researchers for the peer review process. Where is all that money from the paywall going?

In this digital age, the costs here should be minimal. This cost can easily be covered through

donation, advertisement, or public funding of science. The benefit versus the cost of all

papers being free to read is obvious. And the fact that they're not free goes against everything

science should stand for, which is the free dissemination of ideas that educate and inspire.

Science cannot be a gated institution. The more people can freely learn and collaborate on ideas,

the more problems we can solve in the world together. And the faster, we can drive old ideas out

and bring new, better ideas in. Science is beautiful and powerful. And it's dissemination.

In this digital age should be free. As usual, I'll do a few minutes of ads now. I try to make

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