Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
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🔴 No Time To Blog
Set up a blog at the start of November and have not had the time to write anything apart from the customary 'Hello World' post.
#Blog #Blogging #Writing #NoTime #Busy
#Image attribution: Sophie Janotta (Sophieja23), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Blog-684748_640.jpg
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“The pen is mightier than the keyboard”.
“In three studies, we found that students who took notes on laptops performed worse on conceptual questions than students who took notes longhand. We show that whereas taking more notes can be beneficial, laptop note takers’ tendency to transcribe lectures verbatim rather than processing information and reframing it in their own words is detrimental to learning.”
#Notetaking #Notebooks #Learning
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/0956797614524581
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Lucifer: devil, planet, or chemical element?
🔴 🖋️ How To Take Notes For Deeper Understanding - Think For Yourself Without AI
Robin Waldun
“A video on the limits of most note-taking methods and why the best notes are made by us, not Artificial Intelligence.”
#Video length: sixteen minutes and fifty-four seconds.
🔴 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 Spain and Portugal both get 40% of their electricity from solar and wind
Hannah Ritchie
"In 2023, both countries generated around 40% of their electricity from these sources. Wind power is more prevalent in Portugal, while solar is more used in Spain."
#Data #DataViz #SolarPower #WindPower #Energy #Spain #Portugal #Europe
🔴 Social media users probably won’t read beyond this headline, researchers say
By Ashley WennersHerron
“A new study of 35 million news links circulated on Facebook reports that more than 75% of the time they were shared without the link being clicked upon and read”
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For my newsletter I decided on Ghost as a platform. This post from its co-founder will help you understand why:
The consensus in the replies seems to be to allow anyone to follow your account. My follow-up question to that would be if that is the case, why do some accounts manually control who follows them?
🔴 🇬🇧 Southerners among worst at spotting fake English accents, study finds
Ian Sample
“Are southern English accents simply easier to fake than others? Goodman thinks not. Instead, he sees cultural evolution at work. A person’s accent is a signal of their social identity, and the history of tensions across the UK could have brought northerners, Scots and others closer together, making them more attuned to outsiders.”
#UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #Accents #English #Language #Research #News
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Who lived in Flanders during the 7th century, and where did they come from? New DNA research from Merovingian graves in Koksijde has uncovered surprising insights into the region’s diverse ancestral origins.
https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/early-medieval-flanders-dna/
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Discovery of a 2000-year-old fig reveals Ireland’s ancient international food trade https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2024/november/14/discoveryofa2000-year-oldfigrevealsirelandsancientinternationalfoodtrade/
🔴 🌊 Global mean sea levels have increased by around 25 centimeters since 1880
Hannah Ritchie
"There are two key drivers of sea level rise. First, water expands as it gets warmer. Second, ice on land — in the form of ice sheets and glaciers — melts and adds water to ocean basins.
Both of these processes have accelerated due to climate change."
#Data #DataViz #Ocean #Sea #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @climatechange @environment
🔴 Leveraging ancient DNA to uncover signals of natural selection in Europe lost due to admixture or drift
"Our findings suggest that selective events in European prehistory, including from the onset of animal domestication, have been obscured by neutral processes like genetic drift and demographic shifts such as admixture."
Pandey, D., Harris, M., Garud, N.R. et al. Leveraging ancient DNA to uncover signals of natural selection in Europe lost due to admixture or drift. Nat Commun 15, 9772 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53852-8.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Biology #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Europe #Academia #Academics @science @biology
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Some people can visualize things perfectly in their mind’s eye, while others can’t.
Here’s how your brain visualizes scenarios that you’re not actually looking at with your eyes, and why it can be so helpful to improve this skill:
https://theconversation.com/what-is-mental-imagery-brain-researchers-explain-the-pictures-in-your-mind-and-why-theyre-useful-233766
#science #neuroscience @psychology
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Look at that swirl!
Satellite view of the bomb cyclone headed for the Pacific Northwest 🌀💥
#QOTO: since the new update, I have noticed there is a new auto-delete feature. Are there any other features that I may have missed?
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New study by @leizarchaeology & @UniOfYork: Stone Age communities in #Scandinavia practiced sustainable oyster harvesting for 3,000 years without depleting stocks. Can we learn from this? #Sustainability #Archaeology
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/10/29/sustainable-oyster-harvesting-in-the-stone-age-lessons-for-modern-nature-conservation
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#book review: 'How to Think Like Socrates' leaves readers with questions
If your answer is yes or no, are there any particular reasons?
Do you allow accounts to follow you that have no profile details?
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
