
Brian Slater
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Brian Slater
@brianjslater
🇿🇦 IT nerd, ed-tech, husband, father, learner, adventurer.

















The first “connectome” of a fruit fly brain has been completed. It maps every synaptic connection in the creature’s brain. Turns out there are 140k neurons & 54.5M synaptic connections in a typical fruit fly brain or an avg or 386 per. Also the economist continues to the best media source (reliable balanced substantive) in an era of mostly crappy media. economist.com/science-and-te…

We're closing Women's Month with a bang!💚 Join our #NedbankXSpace with Dr Mags, our Executive for Financial Wellness, this evening as he chats to Ntando Kunene and @akreana_ for Money Smart Week, about how ladies can navigate their finances. x.com/i/spaces/1lPJq…




EarthLight is Life! ☀️➕🌍🟰🌈 Discovering #EarthLight while floating in space transformed me!! Earthlight is Earth’s unique cosmic fingerprint; a distinctive luminous signature visible from space. It’s the result of our atmosphere’s intricate dance with sunlight, transforming harsh solar radiation into the gentle, life-sustaining light that bathes our world. This phenomenon is not only beautiful; it’s fundamental to human existence and all life on Earth. I was so moved with my EarthLight experience that I wrote a science book all about it. You can order EarthLight on Amazon or get a signed copy from my website: Space2inspire.art! 🙏🏽👩🏾🚀🚀🌍✨






















