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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🇬🇧 **Joseph Banks: the man who collected the world**
"_He made his name on a voyage around the world alongside Captain James Cook, before becoming a friend of King George III and one of the most influential men in Britain._"
🎥 **The $2 Million Lost Book of Archimedes**
"_A prayer book holding hidden text reveals long-buried secrets from the greatest mathematician of the ancient world._"
#Video length: forty minutes and forty-two seconds
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXNIgHov0Nk
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Archimedes #Book
📖 **The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry**
"_Beginning with an impoverished childhood in China and Hong Kong, Yau takes readers through his doctoral studies at Berkeley during the height of the Vietnam War protests, his Fields Medal–winning proof of the Calabi conjecture, his return to China, and his pioneering work in geometric analysis._"
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300235906/the-shape-of-a-life/.
#Nonfiction #Autobiography #Science #Maths #Mathematics #Books #Bookstodon
📚 🏴 **Prominent Scottish mathematician's personal library sells for £800k**
"_Highlights of the sale included Stirling's own exceptionally rare first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's ANALYSIS Per Quantitatum SERIES, FLUXIONES, AC DIFFERENTIAS, which sold for £100,800, and Stirling's own copy of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, generally considered to be the most important scientific book ever published, which sold for £42,840._"
🔗 https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25568603.scottish-mathematicians-personal-library-sells-800-000/.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Books #Auction #Edinburgh #Scotland
**Human Trials Bring Us Closer to Breathing Through Our Butts**
🔗 https://www.sciencealert.com/human-trials-bring-us-closer-to-breathing-through-our-butts.
🇺🇸 **Nearly 70% of US adults considered obese under proposed new definition, study finds**
"_The new approach would label someone as being obese if they have a BMI over 40 or if they have a high BMI plus at least one sign of excess body fat, for example a large waist, high waist-to-hip ratio, or high waist-to-height ratio. People could also be classed as obese if they have two signs of excess fat even with a "normal" BMI, or if scans show they have excessive body fat._"
#News #Science #Study #Research #Health #Obesity #USA #US #UnitedStates
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🏴 **James Stirling library to be auctioned in Edinburgh**
"_Stirling’s copy of Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which is generally considered to be the most important scientific book ever published, is another highlight of the auction. It’s estimated to fetch between £10,000 and £20,000._"
🔗 https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25548234.james-stirling-library-auctioned-edinburgh/
#Edinburgh #Scotland #News #History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Auction #Books
**The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It**
🔗 https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-research-scientists-hype.
**Active night-time tweeting is associated with meaningfully lower mental wellbeing in a UK birth cohort study**
"_We found strong evidence the average hour participants posted Tweets was associated with depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and mental wellbeing. Average hour explained almost 2% of the variation in mental wellbeing, comparable to reports of the impact of binge drinking and exercise._"
Joinson, D., Haworth, C.M.A., Simpson, E. et al. Active night-time tweeting is associated with meaningfully lower mental wellbeing in a UK birth cohort study. Sci Rep 15, 34301 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-14745-y.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Anxiety #Depression #Epidemiology #Psychology #Statistics #Science #SocialMedia #Twitter #Technology #Academia
🎥 The Physics of Euler's Formula | Laplace Transform Prelude
"_How dynamics explain Euler's formula, and vice versa._"
🇦🇺 **The World’s Largest Gold Nugget Was So Heavy, It Had To Be Broken To Be Weighed**
"_Just beneath the surface of the Australian outback, a chance strike in 1869 revealed a gold discovery so enormous it left a local town in disbelief._"
🔗 https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/world-largest-gold-nugget-was-so-heavy/.
🇺🇸 **Two major fault lines on the West Coast are in ‘sync’ and signal possible massive quake on horizon, scientists warn**
📚 **The Collected Papers Of Albert Einstein**
Volume One: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol-l/.
Volume Two: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol-2-1900-1909.
Volume Three: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einsten-volume-3-the-swiss-year-1909-1911.
Volume Six: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol.-6-the-berlin-years-writings-1914-1917.
**Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA**
"_Lifelong sexless individuals are, on average, higher educated, use less substances, and feel lonelier and unhappier. Sexless men tend to live in regions with fewer women, and sexlessness was more prevalent in regions with higher income inequality._"
Abdellaoui, A. et al. (2025) 'Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(38). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418257122.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genetics #Psychology #Academia #Academics
🌔 **Over a Trillion Dollars in Platinum May Be Buried on the Moon — And Scientists Just Found the Map**
🔗 https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/over-trillion-dollars-platinum-buried-moon/.
🧠 **Having Trouble Concentrating or Remembering? It’s Not Just You, Study Finds**
"_The new study examined 4.5 million survey responses from 2013 to 2023, finding that among people under 40, cognitive disability has jumped from 5.1% to 9.7%._"
#Research #Study #Neurology #Medicine #Health #Science #Academia #Academics
🧬 **His lab’s ancient DNA studies are rewriting human history**
🌡️ **Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: study**
"_According to the study, Italy was the country with the most heat deaths last summer with an estimated 19,000, followed by Spain and Germany, both with over 6,000._"
#Study #Research #Science #Heatwave #Epidemiology #Health #RiskFactors #Europe
**Leonardo Fibonacci and Frederick II: An encounter of Islamic mathematics with Europe**
"_....this note focuses on Leonardo Fibonacci’s experience in North Africa that led him to interact with the scientists at the court of Frederick II, Stupor Mundi. This encounter had several important consequences, among which the introduction in the Western world of the Hindo-Arabic numbering system and the beginning of the transition from Arabic to Latin as the language of science and mathematics._"
Struppa, D. (2024) “Leonardo Fibonacci and Frederick II: An encounter of Islamic mathematics with Europe”, Bullettin of the Gioenia Academy of Natural Sciences of Catania, 57(387), pp. FP202–FP221. doi: https://doi.org/10.35352/gioenia.v57i387.122.
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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