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"Prior research suggests several predictors of susceptibility to conspiracy theories, including narcissistic personality traits (grandiosity, need for uniqueness), cognitive processes (critical thinking, confirmation bias) and lack of education. The aim of the current paper was to explore how facets of narcissism predict susceptibility to conspiracy theories."

Cosgrove TJ and Murphy CP (2023) Narcissistic susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs exaggerated by education, reduced by cognitive reflection. Front. Psychol. 14:1164725. doi: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.116 @psychology

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"This paper compares Rider Haggard’s use of this analogy in his novel Elissa or the Doom of Zimbabwe with other writers of his time who compared Britain to the Phoenicians. Haggard emerges as deeper, more wide-ranging and sophisticated in his use of the ‘Phoenician analogy’ than other writers who employed it."

John Coates, “Haggard’s Use of the Phoenician Analogy with Britain”, Cahiers victoriens et edouardiens [Online, 91 Printemps, 2020 released on June 1, 2020, accessed 31 December 2023. URL: journals.openedition.org/cve/7; DOI: doi.org/10.4000/cve.7672 @bookstodon

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"In this article I trace the origins of this period in terms of the infrastructure required to produce this explosive growth: recognition of the importance of systematic data collection by the state; the rise of statistical theory and statistical thinking; enabling developments of technology; and inventions of novel methods to portray statistical data."

Michael Friendly. "The Golden Age of Statistical Graphics." Statist. Sci. 23 (4) 502 - 535, November 2008. doi.org/10.1214/08-STS268 @statistics

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"This article traces the intellectual genealogy of genomic history from World War II to the present, examines recent attempts to answer criticism from the humanities and social sciences, and suggests paths for responsible use of aDNA in historical and prehistorical scholarship."

Parmenter, C.S. (2023), THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN. History and Theory.. doi.org/10.1111/hith.12328 @archaeodons

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"The heated debates that Bernard Mandeville’s work inspired in Britain, France, and Germany are well-documented. No such account is available for the public reception of his ideas in his country of birth, the Dutch Republic. This paper seeks to fill that void."

Hengstmengel, Joost, and Rudi Verburg. “THE UNEVENTFUL RECEPTION OF MANDEVILLE’S IDEAS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH REPUBLIC, OR THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING OUTRAGE.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 45, no. 3 (2023): 427–46. doi.org/10.1017/S1053837222000. @historyofeconomics

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"Here, across five experiments, we present consistent evidence that online search to evaluate the truthfulness of false news articles actually increases the probability of believing them. To shed light on this relationship, we combine survey data with digital trace data collected using a custom browser extension."

Aslett, K., Sanderson, Z., Godel, W. et al. Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity. Nature (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-068

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"Religion does not act in a vacuum; nor need it dominate other facets of identity. In the early Christian persecutions, inter-religious competition proves much more important to later (Christian) writings that sought to make the everyday more providential than it ever was on the ground. "

James Corke-Webster, By Whom Were Early Christians Persecuted?, Past & Present, Volume 261, Issue 1, November 2023, Pages 3–46, doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac041 @histodon @histodons @religion

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"This article closely analyses Hobbes's scriptural case for two aspects of eschatology: the doctrine of mortalism and the terrestrial kingdom of God."

OKADA, T. A. K. U. Y. A. (2022) “Hobbes's Eschatology and Scriptural Interpretation in Leviathan,” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Cambridge University Press, 73(2), pp. 308–325. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0022046921000 @religion @philosophyofreligion @philosophy

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"In the 1650s, two professors of philosophy at the University of Utrecht defended atomism. Interestingly, one of them, Johannes de Bruyn, is considered to be a staunch Cartesian, while the other, Daniel Voet, was a neo-Aristotelian and strongly opposed to Descartes’s philosophy. This article examines this curious situation and analyses the theories of both professors."

Bos, E. (2023). Atomism and Cartesianism: Gassendi and Gorlaeus (and More) in Utrecht Disputations in the 1650s. Erudition and the Republic of Letters 8, 4, 420-444, Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/24055069-08040 [Accessed 23 December 2023] @philosophy

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"We designed the Vibrating Ingestible BioElectronic Stimulator (VIBES) pill, an ingestible device that performs luminal vibratory stimulation to activate mechanoreceptors and stroke mucosal receptors, which induces serotonin release and yields a hormonal metabolic response commensurate with a fed state."

Shriya S. Srinivasan et al., A vibrating ingestible bioelectronic stimulator modulates gastric stretch receptors for illusory satiety. Sci. Adv. 9, eadj3003(2023). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj3003 @science @engineering

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"The Invisible Empire was a product of an affective urge to recreate a mythical past based on religious and racial homogeneity, and Klansmen therefore sought to embody a self-proclaimed ideal for what they claimed signified true Americanism. This ideal included notions of patriotism, nativism, white supremacism, and Protestant theology."

Gustaf Forsell (2020) Blood, Cross and Flag: The Influence of Race on Ku Klux Klan Theology in the 1920s, Politics, Religion & Ideology, 21:3, 269-287, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2020.

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"This article argues that the liturgical tradition of celebrating Christmas on 25 December travelled from the Latin West to the Greek East at the behest of Theodosius I upon his arrival in Constantinople in AD 380. From there it made its way to Cappadocia, Pontus and Syrian Antioch by means of travelling clerics who belonged to a pro-Nicene network."

EDWARDS ROBERTGT. Travelling Festivals in Late Antiquity: How Christmas Came to the Greek East. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 2023:1-17. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0022046923000 @histodon @histodons @antiquidons

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"These ancient DNA results reveal a relatively genetically homogeneous population in Peqi’in. We show that the movements of people within the region of the southern Levant were remarkably dynamic, with some populations, such as the one buried at Peqi’in, being formed in part by exogenous influences."

Harney, É., May, H., Shalem, D. et al. Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation. Nat Commun 9, 3336 (2018). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-056 @science @biology @archaeodons @anthropology

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"This article explores such nuances in conceptions of fatness and thinness by examining the various ways in which bodyweight and size held meaning in the specific context of the Lutheran Reformation. Through a consideration of the bodily resurrection, apocalyptic belief and the form of heavenly bodies, it demonstrates how discussions of weight and fatness were embedded in fundamental debates about sin and salvation."

Holly Fletcher, ‘Belly-Worshippers and Greed-Paunches’: Fatness and the Belly in the Lutheran Reformation, German History, Volume 39, Issue 2, June 2021, Pages 173–200, doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghab001 @histodon @histodons

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"This interdisciplinary study analyses the connections between literary Modernism and right-wing ideology. Moreover, it is the first academic study to explore the reception of these Modernist authors by today's far right, seeking to understand in what ways they use strategic readings of Modernist texts to legitimise right-wing ideology."

Frisch, K. (2019) The F-Word. Pound, Eliot, Lewis, and the far right. doi.org/10.30819/4972. @bookstodon (70)

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"Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it is stressed that artificial algorithms attempt to mimic only the conscious function of parts of the cerebral cortex, ignoring the fact that, not only every conscious experience is preceded by an unconscious process but also that the passage from the unconscious to consciousness is accompanied by loss of information."

Athanassios S Fokas, Can artificial intelligence reach human thought?, PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 12, December 2023, pgad409, doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad @science @engineering

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"Experts have been selected to create a multidisciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi-, and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume."

Mullen, Alex (ed.), Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 14 Dec. 2023), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198887, accessed 16 Dec. 2023.
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"This article seeks to understand mercantilism not as an elite philosophy, but as a process of interaction between private interests that stretched beyond London across England and the wider world, in which contribution to the public interest was asserted primarily by the capacity of a trade to support domestic employment in an increasingly global economy."

Hugo Bromley, England’s Mercantilism: Trading Companies, Employment and the Politics of Trade in Global History, 1688–1704, The English Historical Review, 2023;, cead177, doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead177 @histodon @histodons

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"I argue that inclusion of Occam's razor is an essential factor that distinguishes science from superstition and pseudoscience. I also describe how the razor is embedded in Bayesian inference and argue that science is primarily the means to discover the simplest descriptions of our world."

McFadden, J. (2023). Razor sharp: The role of Occam's razor in science. Ann NY Acad Sci, 1530, 8–17. doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15086 @science

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"Here we focus on pseudo-profound bullshit, which consists of seemingly impressive assertions that are presented as true and meaningful but are actually vacuous"

Pennycook G, Allan Cheyne J, Barr N, Koehler DJ, Fugelsang JA. On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. Judgment and Decision Making. 2015;10(6):549-563. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500006 @psychology

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