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Joined Nov 2022
Newly sequenced genome reveals coffee’s prehistoric origin story — and its future under climate change
"Their findings, published April 15 in Nature Genetics, suggest that Coffea arabica developed more than 600,000 years ago in the forests of Ethiopia via natural mating between two other coffee species. Arabica’s population waxed and waned throughout Earth’s heating and cooling periods over thousands of years, the study found, before eventually being cultivated in Ethiopia and Yemen, and then spread over the globe."
https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2024/04/albert-arabica-genome.html
#Science #STEM #Research #Study #News #Biology #DNA #Genome #Coffee @science
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"Under a middle-of-the road scenario of future income development (SSP2, in which SSP stands for Shared Socio-economic Pathway), this corresponds to global annual damages in 2049 of 38 trillion in 2005 international dollars (likely range of 19–59 trillion 2005 international dollars)."
Kotz, M., Levermann, A. & Wenz, L. The economic commitment of climate change. Nature 628, 551–557 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07219-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics @climatechange
"An interview with Prof. Marcus du Sautoy about his book Around the Wold in Eighty Games . . . .a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games."
https://zencastr.com/z/nI-9Rb54
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Audio #Podcast #Games #MarcusDuSautoy #Maths #Mathematics #Math @bookstodon
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Finding Meno: the problem with learning
"Education is not about imparting knowledge but about nurturing the conditions under which learning can flourish and knowledge can develop."
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/15/finding-meno-the-problem-with-learning/
#Education #Learning #Teaching #Studying #Knowledge #Socrates #Plato #Philosophy @philosophy
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Research aims to improve data quality in manufacturing, seeking 'golden data'
"Despite the advances in manufacturing AI methodologies over the past decade, including significant strides in deep learning and neural networks, Jin points out that data generation and quality have become the major roadblocks in modeling and decision-making performance."
https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/03/ise-golden-data.html
#Research #News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Data #Engineering #Manufacturing #Industry #Academia #Academic #Academics @engineering @ai
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ChatGPT hallucinates fake but plausible scientific citations at a staggering rate, study finds
"MacDonald found that a total of 32.3% of the 300 citations generated by ChatGPT were hallucinated. Despite being fabricated, these hallucinated citations were constructed with elements that appeared legitimate — such as real authors who are recognized in their respective fields, properly formatted DOIs, and references to legitimate peer-reviewed journals."
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #LLM #Science #Research #DOI #Fake #Citations #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @ai
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Hegel and History
"The lesson here for contemporary politics is clear and significant. Rather than disavowing our circumstances and dismissing our cultural and intellectual traditions as morally compromised or tainted by history, we ought to be examining the long-term historical processes that have led us to this conjuncture and employing the existing resources at our disposal to surmount its challenges."
https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/13/hegel-and-history/
#Politics #History #Histodon #Histodons #Culture #Ideas #PoliticalScience #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @politicalscience
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Do American family names make sense?
"The underlying cause for the disconnect is that names, unlike words, don’t have to stay meaningful in order to do their job of identifying individuals or groups of people. In fact, most American family names make no sense at all today and it is fascinating to uncover their original meanings and what they tell us about the history of the people who bear them. Hereditary surnames are especially vulnerable to changes in pronunciation that obscure their original senses."
https://blog.oup.com/2024/04/do-american-family-names-make-sense/
#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Names #Humanities #Dictionaries #Lexicography #Linguistics @linguistics
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"This essay will read Hegel's comments on the Orient in light of his larger philosophy and then examine how Japanese scholars, specifically Okakura Tenshin (1863–1913) construct what could be called a Hegel-inspired defense of the concept of Asia or the Orient."
Murthy, V. (2024) ‘Rescuing Hegel from Eurocentrism: Oriental Reconstructions of Hegel’s Orient’, Hegel Bulletin, pp. 1–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2024.13. #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Essay #DOI #Philosophy #Hegel #Orient #Asia @philosophy
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Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster review – no place like home
"Quoting Michel Barnier, the EU chief negotiator, she sees the vote to leave Europe as a direct expression of Britain’s “nostalgia for the past”, alerting us to the way that Barnier’s tautologous phrasing suggests a doubling down – Britons really, really want to live in a once-upon-a-time land when foreigners knew their place."
#Reading #Read #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Psychology #Society #Brexit #EU #Reviews #BookReview @histodon @histodons @psychology @bookstodon
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The silent record
"The historian’s avowed mission is to reduce the layers and broker the optimal relationship with the distant recorded past. But ultimately, history becomes an asymptote, a line approaching but never quite touching the past."
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/10/the-silent-record/
#History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money
"Focusing on the economic risks from AI is not simply about preventing “monopoly,” “self-preferencing,” or “Big Tech dominance”. It’s about ensuring that the economic environment facilitating innovation is not incentivising hard-to-predict technological risks as companies “move fast and break things” in a race for profit or market dominance."
https://theconversation.com/to-understand-the-risks-posed-by-ai-follow-the-money-225872
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Money
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"Grok AI Creates Bizarre Fake News About the Solar Eclipse Thanks to Jokes on X".
https://gizmodo.com/grok-ai-creates-bizarre-fake-news-about-the-solar-eclip-1851396186
#News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Grok #FakeNews #SolarEclipse #Eclipse #X #Jokes #SocialMedia
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The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change
"Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals"
#News #CharlesDarwin #Evolution #Biology #France 🇫🇷 #Science #STEM #History #Climate #ClimateChange @science @biology @evolution
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"Through the burning of fossil fuels, animal agriculture and deforestation, the world’s CO2 levels are now more than 50% higher than they were before the era of mass industrialization. Methane, which comes from sources including oil and gas drilling and livestock, has surged even more dramatically in recent years, Noaa said, and now has atmospheric concentrations 160% larger than in pre-industrial times." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/record-highs-heat-trapping-gases-climate-crisis #News #FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #STEM @climatechange @science
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"It’s no surprise that fertility is dropping in many countries, which demographers attribute to factors such as higher education levels among people who give birth, rising incomes, and expanded access to contraceptives. The United States is at 1.6 instead of the requisite 2.1, for example, and China and Taiwan are hovering at about 1.2 and one, respectively." https://www.doi.org/10.1126/science.ze0x33r #Research #DOI #Demography #Health #News #Science #STEM #Global #Population #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
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"Modern imperialism is embodied by industrial capitalism, which prioritizes resource extraction and maximizing profit. This paradigm is deeply embedded in the fabric of global affairs, influencing international trade, political dynamics, and the economic frameworks of nations".
Charles Fletcher, William J Ripple, Thomas Newsome, Phoebe Barnard, Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Aishwarya Behl, Jay Bowen, Michael Cooney, Eileen Crist, Christopher Field, Krista Hiser, David M Karl, David A King, Michael E Mann, Davianna P McGregor, Camilo Mora, Naomi Oreskes, Michael Wilson, Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 4, April 2024, pgae106, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae106 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Environment #Economics #Climate #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Inequality #Sustainability #PoliticalScience @economics @climatechange @politicalscience
So many #books to #read and not enough time in the day.
#Reading #Book #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #NonFiction #Fiction @bookstodon
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"We propose that early humans knew that elephants consistently walked along the same paths to waterholes and used this information to hunt/ambush elephants along these paths. In the course of hunting/ambushing elephants, humans repeatedly utilized specific quarry sites along the trails in preparation for butchering the large game."
Finkel, M., Barkai, R. Quarries as Places of Significance in the Lower Paleolithic Holy Triad of Elephants, Water, and Stone. Arch (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-024-09491-y #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Elephants #LowerPaleolithic #Paleolithic #HomoErectus #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons
"To loosely paraphrase Virgil’s famous dictum, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes (I fear the Greeks even when they offer gifts), let us beware of the familiar especially when it looks too familiar." https://biblonia.com/2024/04/01/trojan-horses-and-other-ruses-de-guerre/ #Ancient #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Literature #TrojanHorse #BlogPost #Blog @bookstodon
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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.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
