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
🔴 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
🔴 🌊 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
🔴 🇭🇰 📷 Hong Kong At Night
“Hong Kong skyscrapers in a night of typhoon”.
#Image attribution: Wilfredor, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Hong_Kong_skyscrapers_in_a_night_of_typhoon.jpg.
#HongKong #Photography #Photo #Night #Skyline #Typhoon #Asia
🔴 🗺 Map of Hindoostan, Farther India, China, and Tibet.
https://archive.org/details/dr_map-of-hindoostan-farther-india-china-and-tibet-constructed--engraved-4564067 ~via @internetarchive. #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #History #India #China #Asia #Europe #C19th #19thCentury #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
Credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
I enjoy looking at city skylines at night whether that be #video or still #photography.
#Image attribution: Canary_Wharf_at_night,_from_Shadwell.jpg: Dave Papederivative work: Pointillist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Canary_Wharf_at_night%2C_from_Shadwell_cropped.jpg.
🔴 🌍 The global number of people aged 65 years and older is set to double within the next thirty years
Simon van Teutem
“Today, there are around 830 million people aged 65 and older in the world. According to the latest UN data, it is projected to grow to 1.7 billion by 2054.”
🔴 🌍 Packaging is the source of 40% of the planet’s plastic waste
Veronika Samborska
"Packaging accounts for 37% of total plastic waste in the United States. It’s 38% in Europe, and in China, it's 45%. Together, these regions account for 60% of global packaging waste generation."
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/packaging-is-the-source-of-40-of-the-planets-plastic-waste
#QOTO: I have followed a number of accounts recently. Some of them are through flipboard and others are private accounts. The toots from the flipboard account such as Flipboard UK (see image) are showing in my home timeline but still have the 'egg timer' sign and I am being asked if I want to cancel follow request. The other set of accounts (private) just have the cancel request with the "egg timer" and none of their toots appear in my home timeline. I was wondering if there is anything I can do to resolve this situation?
🔴 Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting the most reclusive masters of the terra incognita North Sentinel Island
"In terms of similarities, genomic studies reveal that the ancestors of the Asian clade migrated from Africa through India, entering Australia around 48,000 years ago (Sasikumar, 2023). Subsequent sub-clades, such as M31, migrated to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands around 37,000 years ago (Palanichamy et al., 2006; Barik et al., 2008), showing genetic affinity with the Burmese populace (Sasikumar, 2023)."
Paul, S., Justin, A. & Chatterjee, S. Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting the most reclusive masters of the terra incognita North Sentinel Island. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 1512 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03994-3
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Athropology #NorthSentinelIsland #Sentinelese #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology
🔴 🇺🇸 The only poll of any real significance is the one that determines the group of presidential electors for the Electoral College, everything else is speculation.
#Poll #Polls #ElectoralCollege #USPol #Politics #USA #US #UnitedStates
#Image attribution: Chessrat, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege2024.svg.
🔴 📖 How does reading non-fiction books help you to understand the world around you?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #EBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Ch. Maderthoner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Books_01.JPG
🔴 ❓ 📚 I am considering starting a blog where I will post reviews of books that I have read. Do you think the endeavour is advisable? If the answer to that question is yes, what platform do you think is the best to use?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #AmReading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Thad Zajdowicz from Altadena, California, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Book_review_(12213308404).jpg
🔴 🇩🇰 Denmark generates a larger share of its electricity from wind than any other country
"Data from the Energy Institute shows that wind power accounts for over a quarter of Denmark’s total primary energy consumption — the largest figure globally."
It is great to have #QOTO back. Since the upgrade my account profile page shows an error message that can be seen in the image below. Secondly the home timeline is picking toots up from random times. I could be reading a toot from 29 seconds ago and next a toot from 2 days ago. Finally the federated timeline is not automatically refreshing. I wonder if anyone else is having similar issues?
It is great to have #QOTO back.
Since the upgrade my account profile page shows an error message that can be seen in the image below. Secondly the home timeline is picking toots up from random times. I could be reading a toot from 29 seconds ago and next a toot from 2 days ago. Finally the federated timeline is not automatically refreshing. I wonder if anyone else is having similar issues?
⭐ 🇺🇸 US President or American Caesar?
"The clamour about an American Caesar hit a kind of crescendo during the Jacksonian era of the 1830s. The heirs of the Federalists saw the military hero-turned-president Andrew Jackson as an American Bonaparte, whose claim to represent the true voice of the American people illustrated the worst excesses of democratic politics."
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/us-president-or-american-caesar
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #JuliusCaesar #Caesar
#Image attribution: Marcantonio Raimondi, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speculum_Romanae_Magnificentiae-_Julius_Caesar,_from_The_Twelve_Caesars_MET_DP870057.jpg
⭐ Investment in generative AI has surged recently
"In 2023, funding for generative AI soared to $22.4 billion, nearly nine times more than in 2022 and about 25 times the amount from 2019. This surge occurred despite overall investment in AI declining since its 2021 peak."
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/investment-in-generative-ai-has-surged-recently
🔴 🇨🇱 **Chile produced 9.4% of its primary energy from solar in 2023 — the highest in any country that year**
"_Much of Chile's solar energy is captured in the Atacama Desert. This region, in Northern Chile, receives the highest level of sunlight exposure in the world and is home to Latin America’s first solar thermal plant._"
🔴 🇪🇸 **Five centuries of consanguinity, isolation, health, and conflict in Las Gobas: A Northern Medieval Iberian necropolis**
"_By integrating genetic, archaeological, and historical data, we unveil the presence of an endogamous and consanguineous community in Northern Iberia. Despite centuries of turbulent regional history, this community experienced limited external gene flow. Our findings indicate that this community remained relatively isolated for at least five centuries._"
Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela et al., Five centuries of consanguinity, isolation, health, and conflict in Las Gobas: A Northern Medieval Iberian necropolis. Sci. Adv.10, eadp8625 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp8625.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #DNA #Palaeogenetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Iberia #Medieval #Medievodons #Spain #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @anthropology @medievodons
🔴 **Temperature-related mortality burden and projected change in 1368 European regions: a modelling study**
"_By 2100, based on our modelling, heat-related deaths in Europe could increase to more than 234 455 deaths annually in the worst scenario, compared with around 43 729 deaths for the current scenario (1991–2020), potentially shifting the mortality peak from cold to warm seasons in certain regions._"
🔗 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(24)00179-8/fulltext
#TheLancet #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Research #Science #PublicHealth #Health #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange
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
