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🔴 **Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics**

"_Conservative white Christians use apocalypse to articulate their experience as God’s chosen but persecuted people in a diversely populated cosmos, wherein their political foes are the enemies of God._"

Douglas, Christopher. 2022. "Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics" Religions 13, no. 1: 21. doi.org/10.3390/rel13010021

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🔴 **Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks**

"_Language models also perform imperfectly on logical reasoning tasks and more often fail in situations where humans fail—when stimuli become too abstract or conflict with prior expectations._"

Andrew K Lampinen, Ishita Dasgupta, Stephanie C Y Chan, Hannah R Sheahan, Antonia Creswell, Dharshan Kumaran, James L McClelland, Felix Hill, Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2024, pgae233, doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae

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🔴 📖 **Medicine in an Age of Revolution**

"_This work is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain emanated from puritanism. It seeks to reaffirm the crucial role of the period of the civil wars and their aftermath in providing the most congenial context for a re-evaluation of traditional attitudes to medicine._"

Elmer, Peter, Medicine in an Age of Revolution (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 28 Sept. 2023), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853, accessed 9 July 2024.

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🔴 **Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace**

"_Instead of one world community, the European overseas powers had created what the French philosopher and economist the Marquis de Mirabeau described in 1758 as “a new and monstrous system” that vainly attempted to combine three distinct types of political association (or, as he called them, esprits): domination, commerce, and settlement. The inevitable conflict that had arisen between these had thrown all the European powers into crisis. In Mirabeau’s view, the only way forward was to abandon both settlement and conquest especially conquest in favor of commerce._"

Anthony Pagden; Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace. Daedalus 2005; 134 (2): 46–57. doi: doi.org/10.1162/00115260538873

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🔴 **Great Britain and the Confederacy**

"_This essay describes the efforts of the Confederate States of America to convince Great Britain to support its secession from the United States. Although the South's leaders were confident that Britain's need for cotton would lead it to become an ally, numerous factors—including the British public's aversion to slavery—contributed to the country remaining neutral._"

Slinger M. (2023) Great Britain and the Confederacy. British Journal of American Legal Studies, Vol.12 (Issue 2), pp. 357-376. doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2023-002

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📚 **Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698**

"_Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire._"

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**Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy**

"_We also propose and find evidence via both measurement (study 2A) and manipulation (via short video interventions; studies 2B and 2C) for the role of each dimension of scientific literacy—scientific knowledge and reasoning—and their impact on evidence evaluation and conspiracy beliefs._"

Nathan Allred, Lisa E Bolton, Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy, Journal of Consumer Research, 2024;, ucae024, doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae024

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Timár, Gábor, and Eszter Kiss. 2024. "Web Publication of Schmitt’s Map of Southern Germany (1797)—The Projection of the Map Based on Archival Documents and Geospatial Analysis" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 13, no. 6: 207. doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13060207

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**Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers**

"_These results demonstrate that the Neolithic plague was prevalent and potentially lethal. Together with the fact that these plague cases are found in one of the last populations with Neolithic Farmer ancestry observed in Scandinavia, we believe that plague could have been a contributing factor to the Neolithic decline._"

Seersholm, F.V., Sjögren, KG., Koelman, J. et al. Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers. Nature (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-076

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**The Danelaw: The Scandinavian Influence on English Identity**

"_Perhaps it is a possibility that these English noblemen and clergymen and some portion of the common people felt a certain fear of these foreigners, not just because of the invading force that the Great Armies were comprised of, but because these men and women from across the sea were so different yet so similar and perhaps it was because of these similarities that these two cultures were able to form a cultural hybrid in the eastern half of England where even today we can still find faint traces of Scandinavian influence._"

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**Split Infinitives in Early Middle English**

"_The split infinitive is one of seven syntactic properties that English is said to share with Old Norse, and I will show that, on the basis of the area and date of its first occurrence, Norse origin is unlikely._"

van Gelderen, E. (2016). Split Infinitives in Early Middle English. Language Dynamics and Change 6, 1, 18-20, Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/22105832-00601 [Accessed 07 July 2024]

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**The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’**

"_....this study explores the comparative archaeologies and histories of slave markets in order to examine the potential form and function of these sites, and how they might have operated as part of the wider, interconnected Viking world._"

Raffield, B. (2019) ‘The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’’, Slavery & Abolition, 40(4), pp. 682–705. doi: doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2019..

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**Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province**

"_Here, we examine evidence for three different socioeconomic rates that are available from the archaeological record for Roman Britain. We find that all three measures show increasing returns to scale with settlement population, with a common elasticity that is consistent with the expectation from settlement scaling theory._"

Scott G. Ortman et al., Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province. Sci. Adv. 10, eadk5517 (2024). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk5517

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**The genetic structure of Norway** 🇳🇴

"_The main finding of this study is that despite Norway’s long maritime history and as a former Danish territory, the region closest to mainland Europe in the south appears to have been an isolated region in Norway, highlighting the open sea as a barrier to gene flow into Norway._"

Mattingsdal, M., Ebenesersdóttir, S.S., Moore, K.H.S. et al. The genetic structure of Norway. Eur J Hum Genet 29, 1710–1718 (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s41431-021-008

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**Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology**

"_With this book, we want to apply a multidisciplinary approach that combines historical linguistics, archaeology, and comparative religion in order to improve our understanding of the early speakers of Indo-European._"

Larsson, J., Olander, T. and Jørgensen, A.R., 2024. Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: doi.org/10.16993/bcn

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**Discovering the North: Francesco Negri’s and Giuseppe Acerbi’s journeys to Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries**

"_Their narratives provide valuable insights into the cultural and societal landscape of the North during their time, illuminating a region largely undiscovered by other European travellers. By documenting their experiences and observations, Negri and Acerbi contribute to a broader understanding of Northern Europe, challenging prevailing narratives._"

Miscali, M. (2024) ‘Discovering the North: Francesco Negri’s and Giuseppe Acerbi’s journeys to Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries’, Scandinavian Journal of History, pp. 1–25. doi: doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2024..

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**Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia**

"_This study suggests that the Bronze Age boat imagery in southern Scandinavia depicts plank-built vessels of a type that belonged to the same boatbuilding tradition as the c. 350 BC Hjortspring boat. More importantly, aspects of this boat imagery can be directly related to the contemporary ship-settings, suggesting use of sail and the existence of boats that from stem to stem (excluding horn projections) might have been in the region of up 20–30 metres or perhaps even larger._"

Bengtsson, B., Artursson, M. and Wehlin, J. (2024) ‘Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia’, Norwegian Archaeological Review, pp. 1–26. doi: doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2024..

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<strong>Lie detection algorithms disrupt the social dynamics of accusation behavior</strong>

"_The aggregate results across treatments suggest the following conclusions: (1) in the absence of a lie-detection algorithm, people are reluctant to make accusations; (2) when the lie-detection algorithm is available, a minority of people want to obtain its prediction; (3) the minority that does almost always follows the algorithmic prediction, independent of whether the algorithm flags a statement as truth or lie; (4) individuals who actively request algorithmic predictions are not inherently more prone to make accusations, but follow accusation suggestions more than those who receive such predictions without actively seeking them; (5) those who would not actively request the algorithmic prediction do not change their behavior even when they passively receive one; (6) beliefs about the relative performance of the lie-detection algorithm correlate with adoption rates._"

Von Schenk, A. et al. (2024) 'Lie detection algorithms disrupt the social dynamics of accusation behavior,' iScience, p. 110201. doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.11.

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<strong>The return of long-lost Sumero-Akkadian heritage and modern disorders: rediscovering Gilgamesh, Victorian tension, and aftermath</strong>

"_The rediscovery of the Mesopotamian epic complicated centuries-old and on-going debates about time and history: The major archaeologists of the period utilized it to return the field to its earliest arguments and better understand what time and history meant at the end of the nineteenth century, the Historians, Hebraists, and Biblicists began to question the originality of the Bible and verify its reliability, and figures specialized in literature and/or the arts got access to the primary sources of prehistory to update existing literature or create new fictional arts._"

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<strong>Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia</strong>

"_The directly dated cut-marked bones of ungulates indicate the presence of AMHs in inland Iberia during the early and mid-Upper Paleolithic. The paleoecological inferences suggest that human populations occupied Malia when climatic and ecological conditions were not particularly severe in terms of aridity and temperature._"

Nohemi Sala et al., Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia. Sci. Adv.10, eado3807 (2024). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado3807

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