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🔴 ⛳ **Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy**

_“Our study shows that in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, far more land is allocated to golf courses than to renewable energy facilities. Areas equivalent to those currently used for golf could support the installation of up to 842 GW of solar and 659 GW of wind capacity in the top ten countries with the most golf courses.”_

Jann Michael Weinand et al 2025 Environ. Res. Commun. in press https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/adb7bd.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Golf #Environment #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #Energy #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academics @climatechange

🔴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 **John Owen, Puritan Politics, and the Fall of the Cromwellian Protectorate**

_“Owen supported whatever political form could best preserve the long-term safety of the English commonwealth and godly rule against the Stuarts. Yet Owen’s legacy became contested among the godly after the Restoration, as the agent of the protectorate’s fall and the failure of puritan politics.”_

Quibell, A. (2025) ‘John Owen, Puritan Politics, and the Fall of the Cromwellian Protectorate’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000803.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

🔴 📖 **The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces**

_“It describes the origins of serif and sans serif styles in ancient inscriptions, their adoption in modern printing techniques, and their legibility in different situations and in different populations of readers.”_

Richardson, J.T.E. (2022) The legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces, Springer briefs in education. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90984-0.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Reading #Text #Serif #SansSerif #Typeface #Topography #Design #Nonfiction #EBook #PDF #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 🇬🇱 **Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection**

_“...we find twice as many high-impact genome-wide associations to metabolic traits in Greenland compared with Europe. We infer that the high-impact variants arose after the population split from Native Americans and thus are Arctic-specific, and show that some of them are common due to not only genetic drift but also selection.”_

Stæger, F.F., Andersen, M.K., Li, Z. et al. Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08516-4.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Biology #Greenland #Academia #Academic @science

🔴 ⚗ **S.P.L. Sørensen, the pH concept and its early history**

_“Introduced as a convenient symbol for ‘hydrogen ion exponent’ by the Danish biochemist S.P.L. Sørensen in 1909, after a decade or two pH won broad acceptance in the fields of physiology, biochemistry, medical research, and industrial chemistry in particular. Apart from detailing how pH and related concepts were initially received, this paper examines the language and nomenclature associated with the pH scale until about 1930.”_

Kragh, H. S.P.L. Sørensen, the pH concept and its early history. Found Chem (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-025-09532-6

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Science #HistSci #Chemistry #Biochemistry #Academia #Academic @science @chemistry @biochemistry

🔴 **The Mongol empire’s expansion and rethinking research trends in Chinese historical climatology**

_“This article introduces the underlying reasons for the westward expansion of the Mongol Empire, challenging entrenched assumptions through the lens of climate. It reviews scholarly discourse, focusing in particular on a theory linking Mongol expansion to a global dry period, while juxtaposing this with recent research spearheaded by climatologists. Their findings reveal that Mongol expansion coincided with favorable climatic conditions, casting doubt on the traditional narrative.”_

Fan, K.w. The Mongol empire’s expansion and rethinking research trends in Chinese historical climatology. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 135 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04344-z.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #MongolEmpire #Climate #Academia #Academic @histodon @histodons

🔴 **Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony**

_“We review recent developments, including the surprising benefits of modeling with more parameters than data, the increasing appreciation of the context-sensitivity of data and misspecification of scientific models, and the development of new modeling tools.”_

M. Dubova, S. Chandramouli, G. Gigerenzer, P. Grünwald, W. Holmes, T. Lombrozo, M. Marelli, S. Musslick, B. Nicenboim, L.N. Ross, R. Shiffrin, M. White, E. Wagenmakers, P. Bürkner, & S.J. Sloman, Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (5) e2401230121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401230121 (2025).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Psychology #Science #Statistics #Modelling #OckhamsRazor #Academia #Academics @psychology @science

🔴 **Inscribed sandstone fragments of Hole, Norway: radiocarbon dates provide insight into rune-stone traditions**

_“An unusual mixture of runes and other markings are revealed as the fragments are reconstructed into a single standing stone, suggesting multiple episodes of inscription and providing insight into early runic writing practices in Iron Age Scandinavia.”_

Solheim, S. et al. (2025) ‘Inscribed sandstone fragments of Hole, Norway: radiocarbon dates provide insight into rune-stone traditions’, Antiquity, pp. 1–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.225.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Scandinavia #IronAge #Epigraphy #Academia #Academics @archaeodons (2/2)

🔴 **Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events**

_“In this Review, we link physical climate science with heat mortality risk, including crossings of uncompensable thresholds (beyond which human core body temperature rises uncontrollably) and unsurvivable thresholds (lethal core temperature increase within 6 h).”_

Matthews, T., Raymond, C., Foster, J. et al. Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events. Nat Rev Earth Environ (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00635-w

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Geography #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Health #Academia #Academics @science @geography @climatechange

🔴 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 **The Disappearance of Self-Determination from the League of Nations Covenant, January–February 1919**

_“This article argues that Wilson fought for inclusion of both the phrase ‘self-determination’ and the substance of it but was convinced to remove both by his own advisers and members of the British delegation. These men had an agenda at variance with Wilson’s, one focused on solidifying wartime transatlantic co-operation into a post-war governance model that would strengthen the British imperial position and bring the US into support of it.”_

Malcomson, S.L. (2025) ‘The Disappearance of Self-Determination from the League of Nations Covenant, January–February 1919’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000682.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Imperialism #Empire #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

🔴 **Roma Eterna? Roman rule explains regional well-being divides in Germany**

_“...we develop and test the argument that the Roman occupation produced an advantageous positive economic imprint (e.g., investments in economic infrastructure and a trade culture), which in turn imprinted a deep, persisting adaptive macro-psychological profile. Both the economic and macro-psychological imprints co-evolved and continue to contribute to inequalities in adaptive personality traits and related health and well-being outcomes across Germany today.”_

Obschonka, M. et al. (2025) 'Roma eterna? Roman rule explains regional Well-Being divides in Germany,' Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, p. 100214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100214.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Culture #Health #History #Histodon #Histodons #Geography #Roman #Empire #Imperium #Germany #Europe #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @psychology

🔴 **The aging society: Is growth reverting to pre-industrial levels in the 21st century?**

_“In this paper, I have extended the literature in three dimensions, all of which more than counter the negative growth effects of the demographic transition on investment: 1) by showing that fertility transition-induced increase in enrollments into higher education has positive growth payoffs in the future; 2) by bringing ideas production and higher education into the center of the analysis; and 3) by allowing for the endogenous responses of education, innovative activity, investment, and labor force participation to the age structure of the population.”_

Madsen, J.B. (2024) 'The aging society: Is growth reverting to pre-industrial levels in the 21st century?,' Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 229, p. 106849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106849.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Demography #Productivity #Education #Economics #Academia #Academics @economics

🔴 🇺🇸 **Life expectancy by county and educational attainment in the USA, 2000–19: an observational analysis**

“Nationally, in all years there was a clear educational gradient in life expectancy at age 25 years where those with higher levels of education had higher life expectancy: individuals who had completed a college degree had higher life expectancy compared with those who had completed some college education (by 0·3 to 2·0 years over the study period), those who had completed some college had higher life expectancy than the high-school graduate population (by 4·1 to 4·9 years over the study period), and those who had graduated high school had higher life expectancy than those with less than a high-school education (by 3·4 to 5·1 years over the study period).”

Sylte, D.O. et al. (2025). Life expectancy by county and educational attainment in the USA, 2000–19: an observational analysis. The Lancet Public Health, [online] 0(0). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00303-7.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Health #PublicHealth #Education #USA #US #UnitedStates #TheLancet #Medicine #Academia #Academics

🔴 **North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period**

_"We infer a high degree of temporal heterogeneity in ancestry, with fluctuating genetic affinities to different present-day Eurasian groups. We also infer high heterogeneity in ancestry within geographically, culturally, and socially defined groups. Despite this, we find that ancestry components which are widespread in Eastern and Central Europe have been present in the Ukraine region since the Bronze Age."_

Lehti Saag et al., North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period. Sci. Adv.11, eadr0695 (2025) .DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr0695

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genomics #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ukraine #BronzeAge #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons

🔴 **Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture**

_“We reconstructed six-generation pedigrees at both sites including up to 450 closely related individuals, allowing per-generation demographic profiling of the communities. Despite different ancestry, these pedigrees together with large networks of distant relatedness show absence of consanguinity, patrilineal pattern with female exogamy, multiple reproductive partnerships (for example, levirate) and direct correlation of biological connectivity with archaeological markers of social status.”_

Wang, K., Tobias, B., Pany-Kucera, D. et al. Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08418-5.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Biology #Anthropology #Genomics #Science #Ancient #DNA #History #Academia #Academics @science @biology @anthropology

🔴 **Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries**

_“Our analysis suggests that discourses to deny and delay climate policy are aligned and coordinated across the three sectors to reinforce existing infrastructure and inhibit change. Exceptions in this alignment emerge for a few distinct sector-specific goals, including contrasting messages about biofuel.”_

Kinol A, Si Y, Kinol J, Stephens JC (2025) Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries. PLOS Climate 4(1): e0000370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000370.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #FossilFuels #Energy #Corporations #Industry #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #SocialMedia #Academia #Academics @climatechange @environment

🔴 🇺🇸 **Revisiting the J-Shape: Human Development and Fertility in the United States**

_"As outlined earlier in the article, increasing development might reduce levels of gender inequality and economic uncertainty, which can lead to higher fertility."_

Henrik-Alexander Schubert, Christian Dudel, Marina Kolobova, Mikko Myrskylä; Revisiting the J-Shape: Human Development and Fertility in the United States. Demography 1 December 2024; 61 (6): 1949–1973. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11680156.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Demography #Fertility #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Academia #Academics

🔴 💻 **AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking**

_“This study highlights how AI-driven virtual influencers shape consumer behaviour and decision-making processes, potentially reducing the need for independent critical evaluation. The reliance on AI-generated content can diminish users’ critical thinking abilities, as they may accept information and recommendations without thorough scrutiny. The phenomenon of virtual influencers acting as trusted sources of information mirrors the trust participants in our study place in AI tools, leading to reduced critical engagement.”_

Gerlich, Michael. 2025. “AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking” Societies 15, no. 1: 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15010006.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalThinking #Technology #Tech #Education #Academia #Academics @ai

🔴 **Human migration from the Levant and Arabia into Yemen since Last Glacial Maximum**

_“Our results paint a picture of Yemen being in a crossroads, marked by the large-scale baseline genetic diversity that largely evolved many millennia. Yemen witnessed an initial gene flow pattern defined by the more ancient markers from the rest of the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant that started as early as the Epipaleolithic period followed by population isolation and limited expansion. Yemen witnessed additional, but less substantial, flow from southwest Asia, Jordan and Syria through the Nabateans during the active incense trade between the Levant and Yemen, from Arabia during the Islamic Expansion, and a subsequent one from the west and southwest dominated by East Africa.”_

Henschel, A., Saif-Ali, R., Al-Habori, M. et al. Human migration from the Levant and Arabia into Yemen since Last Glacial Maximum. Sci Rep 14, 31704 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81615-4.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Science #Biology #Genetics #Genomics #Migration #Yemen #Arabia #Levant #Academia #Academics @science @biology

🔴 **Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?**

_“I am arguing that it is likely that the men buried in the princely burials at Prittlewell and Sutton Hoo mound 1 served, with a group of their contemporaries, as cavalry soldiers in the Foederati recruited by Tiberius in 575 in the wars with the Sasanians on the eastern front.”_

Helen Gittos, Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?, The English Historical Review, 2025;, ceae213, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae213.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Europe #AngloSaxons #SuttonHoo #Byzantinum #Asia #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons