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⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries

"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."

Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000.

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⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries

"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."

Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000.

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⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries

"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."

Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000.

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⭐ The new political economy of the middle ages: a review essay of the medieval constitution of Liberty

"Having established that free cities developed the first truly modern market-friendly legal institutions, Salter and Young advance their most provocative claim: McCloskey (2010) gets the timing wrong on her Bourgeois Dignity thesis. Instead, Salter and Young (2023, pp. 202–206) argue that self-governing medieval cities cultivated bourgeois virtues and lent dignity to merchants in the High Middle Ages."

Truitt, T. The new political economy of the middle ages: a review essay of the medieval constitution of Liberty. Rev Austrian Econ (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s11138-024-006

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🔴 **Migrant Voices in Multilingual London,** **1560****–****1600**

"_By charting how linguistic diversity was part of the lives of ordinary Londoners in this period, including close examination of incidents of multilingual insult, slander, and conflict, this article argues that the civic and religious authorities relied on the stranger churches’ abilities to carry out surveillance of speech in languages other than English, and that urban social relations and urban spaces were shaped by multilingualism._"

Gallagher, J. (2024) ‘Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560–1600’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, pp. 1–23. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0080440124000

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🟡 🇸🇪 **<font color="yellow">Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right</font>**

"_Drawing parallels to the UK, where pub closures led to increased support for UKIP, this study investigates similar trends observed in Sweden. Utilizing a novel dataset of over 50,000 alcohol-serving permits and electoral data from 2002 to 2018, the study finds that a reduction in permits is associated with a 3.7% increase in support for the Sweden Democrats (SD)._"

Isaksson, Z. (2024) 'Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right,' Electoral Studies, 91, p. 102850. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.20.

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🟡 **<font color="yellow">Excavating ancient pilgrimage at Nessana, Negev</font>**

"_The churches were the only public structures of Nessana to have been previously exposed; all were ornately decorated basilicas, belonging to the most common architectural form of early ecclesiastical edifices in the Holy Land._"

Tchekhanovets, Y. (2024) ‘Excavating ancient pilgrimage at Nessana, Negev’, Antiquity, pp. 1–7. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.132

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🔴 **Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas**

"_That we infer the Native American component in Ancient Rapanui to be most closely related to Pacific Coast South Americans and not North Americans or populations east of the Andes further substantiates trans-Pacific contacts between Polynesians and Native Americans._"

Moreno-Mayar, J.V., Sousa da Mota, B., Higham, T. et al. Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas. Nature 633, 389–397 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-078

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🔴 🇪🇸 **Tracing social disruptions over time using radiocarbon datasets: Copper and Early Bronze Ages in Southeast Iberia**

"_Our statistical analysis indicates that most probably the changes in funerary rituals in southeast Iberia were fast. It also implies that the local populations had dropped in numbers before 2200 cal BCE, so that the presence of ‘Steppe ancestry’ ca. 2200–2000 cal BCE could be the result of their admixture with neighbouring peoples._"

Micó, R. et al. (2024) 'Tracing social disruptions over time using radiocarbon datasets: Copper and Early Bronze Ages in Southeast Iberia,' Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, p. 104692. doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024..

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🔴 **GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation**

"_Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing. The resulting enhanced potential for malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base, particularly in politically divisive domains, is a growing concern._"

Haider, J., Söderström, K. R., Ekström, B., & Rödl, M. (2024). GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-156

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🔴 📖 **From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond**

"_This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond._"

Bay, C., Avioz, M., and van Henten, J. W. (eds) (06 Jun. 2024). From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004693296 [Accessed 06 September 2024]

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🔴 **Human perceptions of social robot deception behaviors: an exploratory analysis**

"_This study provides some of the first evidence for how people perceive and evaluate robot deception, especially three types of deception behaviors theorized in the technology ethics literature: External state deception (cues that intentionally misrepresent or omit details from the external world: e.g., lying), Hidden state deception (cues designed to conceal or obscure the presence of a capacity or internal state the robot possesses), and Superficial state deception (cues that suggest a robot has some capacity or internal state that it lacks)._"

Rosero A, Dula E, Kelly H, Malle BF and Phillips EK (2024) Human perceptions of social robot deception behaviors: an exploratory analysis. Front. Robot. AI 11:1409712. doi: doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2024.140

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🔴 🇺🇸 **The most successful and influential Americans come from a surprisingly narrow range of ‘elite’ educational backgrounds**

"_We found that exceptional achievement is surprisingly strongly associated with “elite” education, especially obtaining a degree from Harvard, and the general public tends to underestimate the size of this effect._"

Wai, J., Anderson, S.M., Perina, K. et al. The most successful and influential Americans come from a surprisingly narrow range of ‘elite’ educational backgrounds. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 1129 (2024). doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-035

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🔴 **François de Foix de Candalle: Euclidean authorship in the sixteenth century**

"_Despite Foix’s stated intention to ‘restore’ the text he – ironically – enjoyed an unusual success as a Euclidean author: few other writers, if any, in his or the succeeding century inserted into Euclid’s Elements new material of such bulk and longevity._"

Wardhaugh, B. (2024) ‘François de Foix de Candalle: Euclidean authorship in the sixteenth century’, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, pp. 1–16. doi: doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024..

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🔴 🇪🇸 **Submerged bridge constructed at least 5600 years ago indicates early human arrival in Mallorca, Spain**

"_The exact reasons behind the construction of these structures in Genovesa Cave remain elusive. Nevertheless, the chronological constraints posed by the depth of the bridge, coupled with the similar depth at which POS and the coloration mark occur, support the idea of an early human presence on the island by 5600 years B.P. and potentially dating back as far as 6000 years ago._"

Onac, B.P., Polyak, V.J., Mitrovica, J.X. et al. Submerged bridge constructed at least 5600 years ago indicates early human arrival in Mallorca, Spain. Commun Earth Environ 5, 457 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-015

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🔴 **AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect**

"_Here, we demonstrate that language models embody covert racism in the form of dialect prejudice, exhibiting raciolinguistic stereotypes about speakers of African American English (AAE) that are more negative than any human stereotypes about African Americans ever experimentally recorded. By contrast, the language models’ overt stereotypes about African Americans are more positive._"

Hofmann, V., Kalluri, P.R., Jurafsky, D. et al. AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect. Nature (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-078

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🔴 📚 **A study of the effects of four reading styles on college students’ mental health and quality of life based on positive psychology-A first-of-its-kind study**

"_Paper text reading and audio reading methods were effective in reducing anxiety levels and improving sleep quality. However, the electronic text reading approach was less effective compared to paper text reading and audio reading, and the video reading approach was not effective in improving depression._"

Liu Y (2024) A study of the effects of four reading styles on college students’ mental health and quality of life based on positive psychology-A first-of-its-kind study. PLOS ONE 19(8): e0308475. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0

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🔴 🇪🇸 **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: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp8625.

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🔴 **Fertility in High-Income Countries: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences**

"_In this contribution, we aim to (a) describe the main determinants of low fertility in high-income countries, (b) assess its potential economic consequences, (c) discuss adjustment mechanisms for individuals and economies, (d) propose a simple economic framework to analyze the long-run economic impacts of low fertility, and (e) draw lessons for economic policymakers to react appropriately. While the economic challenges of low fertility are substantial, a thoughtful and consistent policy response can mitigate most of the adverse consequences._"

Bloom, D.E., Kuhn, M. and Prettner, K. (2024) 'Fertility in High-Income Countries: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and consequences,' Annual Review of Economics. doi.org/10.1146/annurev-econom.

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🔴 **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._"

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