Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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"Piltdown Man placed Britain’s name on the map of human evolution. There was only one problem—there’s no such thing as a missing link."https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-problem-of-piltdown-man #History #Science #Evolution #Britain #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/columbiacss/status/1656722141293731844
Dow, S. (2023). SMITH AT 300: ADAM SMITH ON RHETORIC AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1-3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837222000530 #History #Philosophy #Science #OpenAccess #OA #histodons @histodons
"Felix Flicker explores the magnetic monopoles theoretically predicted to exist in ‘spin ices’ and how this could lead to fundamental advances in electronics with the possibility of magnetic currents that overcome physical limitations faced by electrical currents today." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3xH97Su-KY #Video #Science #Physics
Source: https://twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1657804298087014403
"The first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English writings on health and healing in more than 150 years." https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674290822
#book #History #Science #Medical #bookstodon #histodons #medieval #England @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/MedievalUpdates/status/1657304296776450048
"Studying hundreds of older patients, researchers in Germany found that those who reported using two languages daily from a young age scored higher on tests of learning, memory, language and self-control than patients who spoke only one language." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/health/bilingualism-memory-dementia.html #Science #Language
Source: https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1652518857427279873
"Academic papers tend to be inherently complex due to their subjects, but many are also needlessly hard to read because of bad writing. A growing body of evidence shows that scientific papers have been getting harder to read over the last century." https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/ai-could-rescue-scientific-papers
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Academia #Science
Source: https://twitter.com/freethinkmedia/status/1651965360600502272
At the limits of astrophysics – with Katy Clough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RbkTCp16k #YouTube #Video #Science #Astrophysics #Physics
Source: https://twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1652281849861881857
100+ Best #free #data #science #books for beginners and experts https://www.theinsaneapp.com/2020/12/free-data-science-books-pdf.html
Source: https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1649805489176289284
"Wilhelm Schickard was a German astronomer who invented a calculating machine long before Pascal. He worked on astronomy, mathematics and surveying." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schickard/ #Maths #History #histodons #Science #Mathstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/mathshistory/status/1649705356841369601
‘Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive #ancient #DNA study shows https://www.science.org/content/article/viking-was-job-description-not-matter-heredity-massive-ancient-dna-study-shows #archeology #archaeodons #Vikings #science #genetics
Source: https://twitter.com/NewsfromScience/status/1543316109075570691
Facts and Figures: A History of Medicines https://www.pastmedicalhistory.co.uk/facts-and-figures-a-history-of-medicines/ #history #histodons #histodon #science #medicines
Source: https://twitter.com/PastMedHistory/status/1647223248810307584
Radiocarbon timestamps left in #ancient tree rings by cosmic ray bombardments can date historical events with unprecedented precision https://www.science.org/content/article/marking-time-cosmic-ray-storms-can-pin-precise-dates-history-ancient-egypt-vikings #Science #Physics #Archaeology #archaeodons #History #histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NewsfromScience/status/1646566425241190408
Here’s why the geometric patterns in salt flats worldwide look so similar https://www.sciencenews.org/article/geometric-patterns-salt-flats-worldwide #mathstodon #maths #science
Source: https://twitter.com/ScienceNews/status/1644792249249611776?s=20
Lunar eclipses illuminate timing and climate impact of #medieval volcanism
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05751-z #Science #History #Histodons
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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