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🔴 📚 **Plutarch's Lives**
🔗 Volume 1 (of 4): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14033.
🔗 Volume 2 (of 4): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14114.
🔗 Volume 3 (of 4): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14140.
#PublicDomain #Ebook #Ebooks #Read #Reading #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: National Gallery of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%C3%A9onard_Gaultier,_Plutarch,_NGA_78575.jpg.
🔴 📈 **The world has passed “peak child”**
Hannah Ritchie
_“Peak child” is a sign that the world is on course for “peak population”. The UN expects the world population to start falling before the end of the century._
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-world-has-passed-peak-child
🔴 🌎 **A map of East and West Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana : with the islands of Cuba, Bahama, and the countries surrounding the Gulf of Mexico, with the tract of the Spanish galleons, and of our fleets thro' the Straits of Florida, from the best authorities (1781)**
#Image attribution: Bew, John; Lodge, John, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_map_of_East_and_West_Florida,_Georgia,_and_Louisiana_-_with_the_islands_of_Cuba,_Bahama,_and_the_countries_surrounding_the_Gulf_of_Mexico,_with_the_tract_of_the_Spanish_galleons,_and_of_our_fleets_LOC_79691140.jpg
#History #Map #Cartography #GulfOfMexico #C18th #18thCentury
🔴 🇸🇬 **Since 1960, Singapore has risen from three times poorer than Western Europe to twice as rich**
Simon van Teutem
_“Since then, while Western Europe experienced steady growth, Singapore grew even faster. By 1994, it had surpassed Western Europe, and today, its average income is roughly twice as high.”_
#Data #DataViz #Chart #Singapore #GDP #Wealth #Income #Europe #Economics @economics
🔴 🌎 **1818 Pinkerton Map of North America. Geographicus**
_“This is an extremely unusual mapping of North America prepared for the 1818 American edition of Pinkerton's Atlas. Although the basic engraving remains identical to Pinkerton's Atlas of 1813, published in London, the coloration has been updated to reflect American sensibilities.”_
#Map #Maps #Cartography #History #C19th #19thCentury #Canada #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
#Image attribution: John Pinkerton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1818_Pinkerton_Map_of_North_America_-_Geographicus.jpg.
🔴 🇳🇴 **Norway gives more foreign aid per capita than any other OECD country**
Simon van Teutem
_"In 2023, Norwegians gave $1,160 in foreign aid — more than twice the amount contributed by people in other large Western countries._
_By comparison, people in countries like the United States and Japan gave much less, at $190 and $155 per person, respectively."_
🔴 🗺️ **Johnson's Prussia Norway, Sweden and Denmark (1862)**
_“Includes Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Prussia. Also includes most, and in some cases all, of Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of western Russia, though they are not the direct focus of the map.”_
#History #Cartography #Map #Prussia #Norway #Sweden #Denmark #Europe
#Image attribution: Alvin Jewett Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1862_Johnson%27s_Map_of_Scandinavia,_Norway,_Sweden,_Finland_%5E_Denmark_-_Geographicus_-_Scandinavia-johnson-1862.jpg.
🔴 📖 **Reading Difficult Books For 2025**
As we move from 2024 to 2025 just a reminder to myself and to anyone else it may benefit: read outside your comfort zone and choose books that challenge you. The mind is like a muscle that needs exercise to grow; there is no better weight to lift or mile to run for the mind than understanding complex and difficult ideas. One should not be put off by how little one comprehends from the initial reading with every subsequent reading more of the book's secrets are revealed.
#NewYear #NewYear2025 #NewYears #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Filosoof_met_een_passer_en_een_boek_Filosofenportretten_(serietitel),_RP-P-1982-52.jpg.
🔴 **491 BC - 1902 AD - A Long Time Between Drinks**
_“ In 499 BC, the Persian Achaemenid Empire tried unsuccessfully to conquer various ancient Greek city-states. Finally in 449 BC a de facto peace was concluded and the Greco-Persian Wars effectively ended. In 1902, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah of Persia and George I of Greece agreed to de jure recognition and after 2393 years established diplomatic relations. This of course ignores a long history of Greco-Persian interactions thereafter throughout Antiquity, not least the Peace of Antalcidas, the conquests of Alexander the Great and the Seleucid Empire, or even the long history of the Byzantine-Persian wars.”_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Greece #Europe #Persia #Asia #Cartoon @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Samuel D. Ehrhart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:491_BC_-_1902_AD_-_A_Long_Time_Between_Drinks.jpg.
🔴 📖 🇮🇹 **Lives of the early Medici : As told in their correspondence by Janet Ross**
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74973
#History #Medici #Florence #Italy #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #EBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: National Gallery of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florentine_15th_Century,_Cosimo_de%27_Medici,_1389-1464,_Pater_Patriae_(obverse),_c._1465-1469,_NGA_44771.jpg.
🔴 🇪🇸 📸 **Roman Aqueduct Segovia night 2012**
#Image attribution: Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Aqueduct_Segovia_night_2012_Spain.jpg.
#Night #Image #Photo #Photography #Segovia #Spain #Roman #Europe
🔴 🇸🇬 📸 **Singapore Night Time Skyline Panorama**
#Image attribution: Mustang Joe, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Singapore_Night_Time_Skyline_Panorama_(54212129482).jpg
🔴 🇯🇵 **Japan’s birth rate dropped sharply in 1966, influenced by cultural beliefs**
Tuna Acisu
_“The reason behind this drop is unusual. Children born in 1966 had the “fire horse” as their birth sign. According to astrological predictions, women born that year would bring bad fortune, especially for their future husbands.”_
🔴 🗺️ **1794 Samuel Dunn Wall Map of the World in Hemispheres**
_"A General Map of the World, or Terraqueous Globe with all the New Discoveries and Marginal Delineations, Containing the Most Interesting Particulars in the Solar, Starry and Mundane System."_
#Image attribution: Thomas Kitchin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1794_Samuel_Dunn_Wall_Map_of_the_World_in_Hemispheres_-_Geographicus_-_World2-dunn-1794.jpg.
🔴 🇬🇧 **The British Reader is in Decline as The Reading Agency Reveals Half of UK Adults Don’t Read Regularly**
23 July 2024
“Only 50% of UK adults now read regularly for pleasure, down from 58% in 2015.[5]
15% of UK adults have never read regularly for pleasure, an 88% increase since 2015.[6]
35% of UK adults are “lapsed readers” who used to read but have stopped.
Young UK adults (16-24) face the most barriers to reading, with 24% saying they’ve never been regular readers.”
#UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #Europe #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image: attributed to William Notman, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Still_Life_with_Books_MET_DP139567.jpg.
🔴 💻 **Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore**
Siân Boyle
_What will happen if we don’t get a handle on our declining cognitive health? The former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris told US Congress in 2019 that billions of people – “a psychological footprint about the size of Christianity” – now receive their information from platforms whose business model “links their profit to how much attention they capture, creating a ‘race to the bottom of the brain stem’ to extract attention by hacking lower into our lizard brains – into dopamine, fear, outrage – to win”._
#Internet #Cognition #Brain #BrainRot #Scrolling #DoomScrolling #SocialMedia #Opinion
Image attribution: Markus Spiske markusspiske, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Code_on_computer_monitor_(Unsplash).jpg.
🔴 🇸🇬 📸 **Singapore At Night**
#Image attribution: Pierpaolo Lanfrancotti, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Singapore_night.jpg.
🔴 📖 **A Reading Question**
Do you find that reading the second half of a book takes less time than reading the first half? In other words, is the ascent harder than the descent?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Staande_man_lezend_in_een_landschap,_RP-P-2003-60.jpg.
🔴 **More than 8 out of 10 people in the world will live in Asia or Africa by 2100**
_“The striking change between now and 2100 is the expected growth in the African population. In 2023, its population is around 1.4 billion; by 2100 it's projected to reach just under 4 billion.”_
Hannah Ritchie (2019) - “More than 8 out of 10 people in the world will live in Asia or Africa by 2100” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/region-population-2100' [Online Resource]
🔴 **Isaac Newton’s wealth ‘intimately connected’ with slavery, author says**
Hannah Devlin
_"During the scientist’s 30-year tenure at the mint, the book outlines, Newton oversaw an influx of gold mined primarily by enslaved Africans in Brazil. And as master of the mint, he took a small fee for every coin that was minted."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #HistSci #IsaacNewton #Slavery #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon
#Image attribute: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Portret_van_Isaac_Newton%2C_RP-P-OB-32.808.jpg.
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.
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