Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🔴 **Welcome**
Thank you for visiting this humble account. I hope the time you spend here will be informative. If a particular toot brought you here, please do view other toots from different subject areas. You never know what new topics may interest you.
🇺🇸 **U.S. Latino economy hits $4 trillion, surging ahead of national GDP**
"_Latino GDP has grown at an average 4.4% annually — second-fastest among the world's 10 largest economies, trailing only China and on par with India._"
🔗 https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2025/09/15/us-latino-gdp.
🏦 **BIS warns of mounting disconnect between debt and stock markets**
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**Nonfiction Books to look out for in September 2025**
#Video length: nine minutes and fifteen seconds.
🇬🇧 **Britain’s economy boomed after the Romans, Aldborough study reveals**
"_Britain’s industrial economy did not collapse when the Romans left and went on to enjoy a Viking-age industrial boom, a new study finds, undermining a stubborn ‘Dark Ages’ narrative._"
#History #Archaeology #Britain #Economy #Romans #RomanEmpire
🖥️ 🏴 **It’s harder than expected to implement AI in the NHS, finds study**
_“A key problem was that clinical staff were already very busy – finding time to go through the selection process was a challenge, as was supporting integration of AI with local IT systems and obtaining local governance approvals."_
🔗 https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/09/ucl-study-finds-challenges-in-implementing-ai-in-the-nhs/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #England #NHS #Health
Good evening.
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@bibliolater Yes, certainly many promising ideas were not developed further because of neglect. But few as promising as the atomic #philosophy were actively suppressed. https://www.deepthinkers.net/why-did-aristotle-reject-democritus-idea-of-the-atom/
**“We Lost Centuries”: How Monks Erased Archimedes’ Work and Delayed Science by Hundreds of Years**
"_Accidentally erased by monks and rediscovered through cutting-edge tech, this ancient text could have changed the course of history._"
**“We Lost Centuries”: How Monks Erased Archimedes’ Work and Delayed Science by Hundreds of Years**
"_Accidentally erased by monks and rediscovered through cutting-edge tech, this ancient text could have changed the course of history._"
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🏴 **This professor teaches his psychology students to run a marathon**
"_Parkinson, an avid marathoner himself, uses distance running as a real-world laboratory to apply psychological concepts that are often taught to students only in theory._"
#Wales #University #Professor #Education #Learning #Health #Fitness #Marathon #Psychology
📚 **Are books a hobby or a necessity for wellbeing? New research shows the link between reading and better mental health**
"_Of the adults surveyed, 37% said that reading had helped them learn something new, and 16% reported that books made them feel less lonely. One in four adults also credited reading before bed as helpful in getting a better night’s sleep._"
#Stress #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Reading #Books #Bookstodon
📚 **Are books a hobby or a necessity for wellbeing? New research shows the link between reading and better mental health**
"_Of the adults surveyed, 37% said that reading had helped them learn something new, and 16% reported that books made them feel less lonely. One in four adults also credited reading before bed as helpful in getting a better night’s sleep._"
#Stress #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Reading #Books #Bookstodon
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A key market data point is signaling fear about America’s economy
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/14/markets/us-treasury-bond-market-fed-rate-cuts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business and Tech @business-and-tech-CNN
🔭 **Billions of stars, one winning photograph: the core of Andromeda**
_The photographers say, “This image is not just about capturing Andromeda’s beauty - it is an effort to bring out the dynamic processes shaping its evolution, from the birth of new stars to the influence of interstellar structures near its core.”_
🔗 https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/billions-stars-one-winning-photograph-core-andromeda.
Morning all.
🇺🇸 **Trump Forewarns Of Massive Debt If Supreme Court Reverses Tariffs: 'We Would Have Give Back Trillions And Trillions Of Dollars'**
🧬 **DNA tests: Who is getting rich with the data from our genes?**
"_50 million people worldwide have already had their genes tested, providing private providers with valuable data. The data sets are already being used and monetized by pharmaceutical companies. Critics fear that insurance companies or banks will also access the genetic data of potential customers in the future._"
#Video length: fifty-one minutes and fifty-five seconds.
Finally, overcome the problems with my computer, now I am back!
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The only reason most CEOs are obsessed with AI is that it drives the stock price up. Consequently, their compensation goes up. No technical reason. No wish to reinvent the workforce. No long-term plan. Just a market craze.
#AI #ceo
https://futurism.com/ceos-ai-disaster
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs 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.
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