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"He demonstrates how imperial Christianity inflected the production of truth far beyond the domain of theology — and how intellectual tools forged in the fires of doctrinal controversy shed their theological baggage and came to undergird the great intellectual productions of the Theodosian Age, and their material expressions."

Letteney, M. (2023). The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: doi.org/10.1017/9781009363341 @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (65)

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"Our claim is that the book provides tools for solving questions about proportional lines inspired by results in music theory and a context of Pythagorean-Platonic interest in proportions."

Roy Wagner & Reviel Netz (2023) Between music and geometry: a proposal for the early intended application of Euclid’s Elements Book X, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, 38:2, 69-96, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2023.

"Increased heat and humidity potentially threaten people and societies. Here, we incorporate our laboratory-measured, physiologically based wet-bulb temperature thresholds across a range of air temperatures and relative humidities, to project future heat stress risk from bias-corrected climate model output."

Vecellio, D.J. et al. (2023) 'Greatly enhanced risk to humans as a consequence of empirically determined lower moist heat stress tolerance,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(42). doi.org/10.1073/pnas.230542712 @science

"This article offers a fresh approach to the study of ‘Indo-Roman’ trade by defining the ‘players’ of the ‘game’ of Indian Ocean commerce in the early centuries of the Common Era."

Simmons, J. (2023). Behind gold for pepper: The players and the game of Indo-Mediterranean trade. Journal of Global History, 18(3), 343-364. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S1740022823000 @antiquidons @histodon @histodons

"This paper explores the rhetorical strategies Newton deployed to convince his audience that his conclusions were certain and unchallengeable."

Fara Patricia. 2015 Newton shows the light: a commentary on Newton (1672) ‘A letter … containing his new theory about light and colours…’ Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. 373: 20140213. 20140213 doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0213 @science @physics @earlymodern

Thea Sommerschield, Yannis Assael, John Pavlopoulos, Vanessa Stefanak, Andrew Senior, Chris Dyer, John Bodel, Jonathan Prag, Ion Androutsopoulos, Nando de Freitas; Machine Learning for Ancient Languages: A Survey. Computational Linguistics 2023; doi: doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00481 @linguistics

"This research addresses this unique component of science attitudes—spirituality of science: feelings of meaning, awe, and connection derived through scientific ideas."

Preston, J. L., Coleman, T. J., & Shin, F. (2023). Spirituality of Science: Implications for Meaning, Well-Being, and Learning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/01461672231191 @science @psychology

🇪🇸 Aragoncillo-del Río J, Alcolea-González JJ, Luque L, Castillo-Jiménez S, Jiménez-Gisbert G, et al. (2023) Human occupations of upland and cold environments in inland Spain during the Last Glacial Maximum and Heinrich Stadial 1: The new Magdalenian sequence of Charco Verde II. PLOS ONE 18(10): e0291516. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0 @anthropology @archaeodons @science

Lucarini G, Guagnin M, Shipton C, Radini A, Alsharekh AM, et al. (2023) Plant, pigment, and bone processing in the Neolithic of northern Arabia–New evidence from Use-wear analysis of grinding tools at Jebel Oraf. PLOS ONE 18(10): e0291085. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0 @anthropology @archaeodons

"The moral of Waldow’s reading is that we should not read the Meditations as an account of what the mind is but as an account of what the mind can do and how we can upraise ourselves not as metaphysicians but in our interactions with the world and others."

Vili Lähteenmäki (2023) Experience in Descartes, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2023. @philosophy

Kolev, S. (2023). WHEN LIBERTY PRESUPPOSES ORDER: F. A. HAYEK’S CONTEXTUAL ORDOLIBERALISM. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1-24. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S1053837223000 @histodon @histodons @historyofeconomics

Williams, J. (2018). Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: doi.org/10.1017/9781108453004 @philosophy
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Farsi, D.N., Gallegos, J.L., Finnigan, T.J.A. et al. The effects of substituting red and processed meat for mycoprotein on biomarkers of cardiovascular risk in healthy volunteers: an analysis of secondary endpoints from Mycomeat. Eur J Nutr (2023). doi.org/10.1007/s00394-023-032 @science

🇦🇺 Olierook, H.K.H., Fougerouse, D., Doucet, L.S. et al. Emplacement of the Argyle diamond deposit into an ancient rift zone triggered by supercontinent breakup. Nat Commun 14, 5274 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-409 @science

Chiara Martini, Geometrical Changes: Change and Motion in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Geometry, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2023;, aoad018, doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoad018 @philosophy

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