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🧵 : this the first in a series of that will eventually be stitched together into a related to 📚 and 📘. (1)

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GregCocks

Visualizing All Of The World's Water
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visualcapitalist.com/sp/hf01-v <-- shared technical article
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usgs.gov/special-topics/water- <-- USGS’s ‘How Much Water Is There On The Earth?’
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#water #hydrology #water #waterresources #farming #agriculture #foodsecurity #visualisation #earth #proportions #percentages #sources #groundwater #watercycle

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Freedom = Better Habits ⭐+🔔

"It is disgraceful to be unable to use our good things." Aristotle quote + interesting book .... 

quote about
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I guess Aristotle understood how sterile things can get when so much 'could be good' or as isolated tools are very good but when regulated (divided) and restricted (rules) they are only 'good' mostly for money-making and taking tax % from all transactions... so towards centralizing power - not really much else as the main lead in life as people come and go and it's even more centrailsed...

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I'm (title below) Aristotle in the Preface

📚 Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy 👀

➡️ qoto.org/@bibliolater/11116697

(it's eBook ):

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Yoïn van Spijk

The word 'fairy' is related to 'infantry' and 'professor'.

And that's not all: these words are also related to 'fate', 'fatal', 'fame', 'fable', and 'to confess'.

They all come from Latin words derived from a stem meaning "to speak".

Click the infographic to learn how:

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🔴 🎥 Norse Skaldic Poetry: How-To

“Looking at the characteristics of the most difficult and prestigious meter (poetry style) of the Old Norse skálds, dróttkvætt, and how it can be replicated in a modern language.”

length: twenty four minuteds and eight seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=IQEhuH2fCp

@literature

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🔴 All roads lead to (New) Rome: Byzantine astronomy and geography in a rapidly changing world

“This comprehensive review of Byzantine geographic achievements – supported by a review of astronomical developments pertaining to position determination on Earth – aims to demonstrate why and how, when Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453 and the Ottoman Empire commenced, Byzantine astronomers had become the central axis in an extensive network of Christians, Muslims and Jews.”

Richard, D.G. (2024) All roads lead to (New) Rome: Byzantine astronomy and geography in a rapidly changing world. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16285v1.

@histodon @histodons @geography

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🔴 In which countries do people drink the most alcohol?

“Romania tops the list of countries with the highest alcohol consumption per person, with Georgia, Czechia, Latvia, and Germany rounding out the top five. This is according to the global estimates made available by the World Health Organization (WHO), the latest data referring to 2019.”

ourworldindata.org/data-insigh

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🔴 Ex abrupto

“The Romans never articulated the idea that time is money, but the technique of exordium ex abrupto came as close to it as it could.”

biblonia.com/p/ex-abrupto

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🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 Lord Mountbatten’s Emotional Tribute to Winston Churchill (1965)

length: six minutes and thirty eight seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=GKirZk6qFC

@histodon @histodons

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Paysages Mathématiques

"Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the world, but every possible world, must conform." – Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math

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🔴 Follow Friday Request

Requesting recommendations for accounts to follow this Friday. If you would like to know the type of content that I am interested in just have a look at my timeline.

Thank you.

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🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 Why The US South Is Insanely Religious

length: twenty one minutes.

youtube.com/watch?v=knHhPDfT9J

@religion @christianity

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🔴 The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis.

“He reprehends the terms ‘Byzantine’ and ‘Byzantium’ as the fraudulent legacy of 19th-century scholars determined to claim the heritage of Roman antiquity for (North-) Western Europe, dispossessing its rightful heirs and smearing them, perversely, with tropes of Oriental despotism invented by the Greeks of the classical age. Save in the book’s subtitle, a commercial concession, Kaldellis restricts the offending word to historiographical contexts.”

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n15/mi

@bookstodon @histodon @histodons

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🔴 Elon Musk says he’s a ‘cultural Christian’ – why some leading thinkers are embracing Christianity

“Musk joins many western conservative thinkers troubled by a rapidly changing world. Some of these thinkers have embraced Christianity to combat these changes. Yet they often struggle to accept Christianity’s central supernatural claims, like Christ’s resurrection.”

theconversation.com/elon-musk-

@religion @philosophy @christianity

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Corey S Powell

Within the flash of a brilliant gamma-ray burst, astronomers found a remarkable signal:

Matter and antimatter destroying each other.

While fleeing a newborn black hole.

Moving at 99.9% the speed of light.

science.nasa.gov/science-resea #science #space #astronomy #nasa

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🔴 ‘The ick’, ‘boop’ and ‘chef’s kiss’ added to Cambridge Dictionary

“A phrase popularised by Love Island joins more than 3,200 other entries relating to online gaming, parcel thefts and more.”

theguardian.com/books/article/

@bookstodon

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🔴 Google DeepMind takes step closer to cracking top-level maths

“Even though computers were made to do maths faster than any human could manage, the top level of formal mathematics remains an exclusively human domain. But a breakthrough by researchers at Google DeepMind has brought AI systems closer than ever to beating the best human mathematicians at their own game.”

theguardian.com/technology/art

@ai

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🔴 🇯🇵 The transformative power of translation

“…In both 1870 and 1910 most of the technical knowledge of the world is in French, English, Italian and German but look at what happens in Japan–basically no technical books in 1870 to on par with English in 1910. Moreover, no other country did this.”

languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

@bookstodon

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🔴 Influence of believed AI involvement on the perception of digital medical advice

“Moreover, participants indicated lower willingness to follow the advice when AI was believed to be involved in advice generation. Our findings point toward an anti-AI bias when receiving digital medical advice, even when AI is supposedly supervised by physicians.”

Reis, M., Reis, F. & Kunde, W. Influence of believed AI involvement on the perception of digital medical advice. Nat Med (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-031

@psychology

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Sue Stone

World's Richest 1% Gained $40 Tn In A Decade: Oxfam | IBTimes

If you ever wonder why things seem to be going bad...

ibtimes.com/worlds-richest-1-g

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Eric Topol

Masks work. Again. New Randomized trial
bmj.com/content/386/bmj-2023-0

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