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🇺🇸 How Christianity’s Decline Impacts White Christians’ Emotional and Attitudinal Response
"Racial resentment predicts Christian nationalism, Christian persecution beliefs, and White persecution beliefs. In other words, negative stereotypes about Black Americans are related to Christian nationalism and persecution beliefs. But while Whiteness and Christianity are undeniably intertwined among Whites, our experiment provides evidence that they cannot be conflated."
#ChristianNationalism #Secularization #Politics #PoliticalScience #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Chrisitianity #Religion #Christians #Emotions @politicalscience
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The History of Ions: Unveiling the Electric Charge
"Around 1830, Faraday posited the existence of charged particles within molecules that migrate between electrodes during electrolysis—an idea ahead of its time."
https://historyofsciences.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-history-of-ions-unveiling-electric.html
#History #Science #HistSci #STEM @science
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"I analyze Machiavelli's frequent references to hope throughout his corpus to offer an explanation of what he means by ‘hope,” examine the relation between hope and fear, and identify the benefits, dangers, and limits of these two foundational and complementary passions."
Mitchell, C.E. (2024) ‘Beyond the Politics of Fear: Machiavelli on Hope’, The Review of Politics, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670524000019.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Machiavelli #Politics #PoliticalScience #Fear #Hope #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
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Episode 176: All the World’s a Playhouse
"In this episode, we look at how distant cultures were contributing to the growth of English and how Shakespeare’s acting company built a world-famous theater in the late 1500s."
#Theatre #Theater #History #English #Language #Podcast #Audio #Shakespeare #EarlyModern #Culture @earlymodern
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"The ultimate goal, I suggest, was a translatio imperii; the establishment of an imperial monarchy in the west that could rival the Habsburg empire, and which in time, perhaps, might even come to imitate the universal glory of the Roman imperium. Not the American Atlantic seaboard, but rather the continent of Europe, with its arms, its learning, and its treasure, was the goal of Bacon’s early imperial vision."
Serjeantson, R. (2024) ‘Francis Bacon, colonisation, and the limits of Atlanticism’, History of European Ideas, pp. 1–14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2338341.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #FrancisBacon #Colonialism #Imperialism #Ireland #Atlantic #EuropeanUnion #EU #Europe #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
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"...our data suggested that the Japanese population could be best modeled by admixtures of three ancestral components (hereafter K1 to K3). K1 to K3 were the highest in Okinawa, Northeast, and West, respectively (Fig. 1D and table S4). K1 (Okinawa) component maintains a relatively stable fraction of around 12% in Hondo subgroups, except for South (which is a region adjacent to Okinawa), with a higher proportion of 22%. K2 (Northeast) and K3 (West) components showed a cline from West to East."
Xiaoxi Liu et al., Decoding triancestral origins, archaic introgression, and natural selection in the Japanese population by whole-genome sequencing. Sci. Adv. 10, eadi8419 (2024). DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi8419
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Population #Genetics #Genome #Genomics #Japan #Japanese #Asia @science
The age structure of populations varies widely across countries
"Over the last 70 years, birth rates have declined in most countries, and life expectancy has increased, leading to aging populations worldwide."
"Banana republics are Central American and Caribbean nations exploited by multinational businesses and imperialist governments."
Stoyack, Aaron. "What Is a Banana Republic?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-a-banana-republic/ (accessed May 4, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Imperialism #Empire #Corporations #BananaRepublics #LatinAmerica #Caribbean @histodon @histodons
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🇬🇧 🇪🇺 "Our results show that individuals who lacked wealth are less likely to support leaving the EU, explaining why so many Brexit voters were wealthy, in terms of their property wealth."
Green, J. and Pahontu, R.L. (2024) ‘Mind the Gap: Why Wealthy Voters Support Brexit’, British Journal of Political Science, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123423000728.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Brexit #Politics #PoliticalScience #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
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"Even though it was hoped that machines might overcome human bias, this assumption often fails due to a problematic or theoretically implausible selection of variables that are fed into the model and because of small size, low representativeness, and presence of bias in the training data [5.]."
Suchotzki, K. and Gamer, M. (2024) 'Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils,' Trends in Cognitive Sciences [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.04.002.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Deception #Lies #Bias #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning #Psychology @science @psychology
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The King's English : Fowler, H. W. (Henry Watson), 1858-1933: https://archive.org/details/kingsenglish00fowliala ~via @internetarchive
#Read #Reading #NonFiction #English #Language #Grammar #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out.
"I want to find concepts in the model. I want something that I can grab within the neural network, evidence that there is a thing that represents “apple” internally, that allows it to be consistently referred to by the same word."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-ai-know-what-an-apple-is-she-aims-to-find-out-20240425/
#ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #MachineLearning #NeuralNetworks
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On the trail of deepfakes, Drexel researchers identify ‘fingerprints’ of AI-generated video
"The lab’s tools use a sophisticated machine learning program called a constrained neural network. This algorithm can learn, in ways similar to the human brain, what is “normal” and what is “unusual” at the sub-pixel level of images and videos, rather than searching for specific predetermined identifiers of manipulation from the outset."
#News #Deepfake #Video #Science #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Analysis #Algorithms #NeuralNetworks #Engineering #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @engineering
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A leopard never changes his spots.
#Saying #JustSaying #Politics #Leopard #PublicDomain
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Do you keep a record of how many pages you #read in a day?
#Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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#GoodMorning #Mastodon, it is time to get back to the #books.
#Read #Reading #Book #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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300 Years of Immanuel Kant: A Collector’s Guide
"While Kant may be most renowned for his work in philosophy, his books reveal contributions in areas as diverse as physics, geopolitics, and theology. The remarkable scope of his achievements should secure him a place in collections of science, politics, and religion, as well as philosophy."
https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/300-years-of-immanuel-kant-a-collectors-guide/
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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Questions over Shakespeare’s authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claims
"New research suggests some 16th-century writers were confident Shakespeare was the pseudonym of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford"
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Shakespeare #Literature @bookstodon @literature
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Scorsese's ‘Life of Jesus' Being Shot This Fall — Andrew Garfield and Miles Teller Attached to Star
"He practically swore to the Pope that he’d be making this movie. There’s no turning back. It’s coming."
#Film #Movie #Scorsese #Jesus #Christ #Religion #Christianity @religion @christianity
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The History of Byzantium
Episode 1 - An Introduction
https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/ad172bfc-82c9-4445-bb7f-59069f1f1a2a
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium #Audio #Podcast @histodon @histodons
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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
