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"Plans for a cenotaph for the great scientist would have been the tallest building in the world." https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160318-the-memorial-to-newton-that-would-have-eclipsed-the-pyramids #video #history #architecture #science #histodon #histodons #C18th @histodon @histodons @science
"Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). They range from his early papers and College notebooks through to the ground-breaking Waste Book and his own annotated copy of the first edition of the Principia." https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 #History #Archives #Library #Science #histodon #histodons #histsci #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Physics @histodon @histodons @science @physics
"James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was one of the most important mathematical physicists of all time, after only Newton and Einstein. Within a relatively short lifetime he made enormous contributions to science which this lecture will survey." https://youtu.be/v40OcJ7rfSE #Youtube #Video #History #Science #Lecture #Physics #Maths #Math #Mathematics #victorian #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science
"Theoretical physicist Brian Greene, PhD, has been challenged to explain the nature of time to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert." https://youtu.be/TAhbFRMURtg #Youtube #Video #Science #Physics #Philosophy #Maths #Math #Mathematics @science @philosophy @physics
Dang Liu and others, The genomic diversity of Taiwanese Austronesian groups: Implications for the “Into- and Out-of-Taiwan” models, PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2023, pgad122, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad122 #OpenAccess #OA #Genetics #Anthropology #Science #Taiwan #Genome #research @science
Martin, S., Long, D., & Schodlok, M. (2022). Comparison of Antarctic iceberg observations by Cook in 1772–75, Halley in 1700, Bouvet in 1739 and Riou in 1789 with modern data. Journal of Glaciology, 1-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.111 #OpenAccess #OA #Antarctic #Science #Oceanography #History #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science
Brami, M., Zedda, N., Diekmann, Y., Blöcher, J., Brou, L., Valotteau, F., . . . Brun-Ricalens, F. (2023). Investigating the prehistory of Luxembourg using ancient genomes. Antiquity, 1-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.71 #OpenAccess #OA #Genetics #Europe #Luxembourg #Ancient #History #histodon #histodons #Science #Research @histodon @histodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/AntiquityJ/status/1674692503679688704
"In our new study, we combined genetic and linguistic data sampled in England to study the effects of culture on genetics at smaller geographic scales than generally studied." https://theconversation.com/english-dialects-make-themselves-heard-in-genes-207593 #Anthropology #Linguistics #Genetics #UK #England #Science @anthropology @linguistics @science
Source: https://twitter.com/tonythorne007/status/1674718634009083904
#Ancient #DNA study reveals large scale migrations into Bronze Age #Britain https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/great-britain-celtic-england-dna-france-b1980890.html #Science #History #Genetics #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science
"...these models contain known racial, gender, and class stereotypes and biases from their training data and other structural factors, which downstream into model outputs". https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi0248 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Psychology #Science
Source: https://twitter.com/ScienceMagazine/status/1674047647462617089
"Particularly in low-income and middle-income populations, the shift away from a traditional diet to an industrialised one has been abrupt and is associated with considerable increases in nutrition-related non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes." https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01301-6/fulltext #OpenAccess #Science #Medicine #Diabetes #Research
Source: https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1673300833943928834
"Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues." https://nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8 #Neuroscience #Philosophy #Science @philosophy @science
Kelsey E Witt and others, The Impact of Modern Admixture on Archaic Human Ancestry in Human Populations, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2023, evad066, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad066 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Biology #ResearchPapers #Article @science
"One of the biggest certainties with an El Niño is that global temperature will ratchet up, as they always do during El Niño years, because the ocean releases exceptional amounts of heat into the atmosphere." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/el-nino-may-break-a-record-and-reshape-weather-around-the-globe/ #Climate #Science #ElNiño @science
Source: https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1671943252398800912
"this book is an invaluable companion to students and lecturers alike in exploring women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, medicine and culture." https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/211143 #OpenAccess #OA #history #histodon #histodons #science #bookstodon #books #book #maths #technology #medicine #culture @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/UCLpress/status/1671503733564358656
Sousa da Mota, B., Rubinacci, S., Cruz Dávalos, D.I. et al. Imputation of ancient human genomes. Nat Commun 14, 3660 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39202-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Biology #Genetics #Archaeology #Population #Haplotypes #Science @archaeodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/MU_Peter/status/1671533825560592388
"It’s the pinnacle of 400 years of science and gives the correct answer to hundreds of thousands of experiments." https://youtu.be/Unl1jXFnzgo #Video #Science #Physics @science
Source: https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1670863540423360520
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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