Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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Joined Nov 2022
**Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities**
_"By design, engineering has long been entangled with the humanities"_
🔗 https://spectrum.ieee.org/engineering-and-humanities.
#Engineering #Humanities #History #Technology #Tech #HistSci #Science @science
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**But what is Quantum Computing? (Grover's Algorithm)**
3Blue1Brown
"_Qubits, state vectors, and Grover's algorithm for search._"
#Video length: thirty-six minutes and fifty-three minutes.
**Bursting your bubble: Chewing gum releases microplastics into your saliva, UCLA research shows**
“_The research suggests that regular gum chewers could potentially be ingesting tens of thousands of microplastic particles a year, although the health effect is not known._”
#UCLA #Research #News #Microplastics #ChewingGum #Science @science
☀️ 🛰️ **Solar Orbiter’s widest high-res view of the Sun**
_“The image you see here combines a whopping 200 individual images into the widest high-resolution view of the Sun yet.”_
🔗 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/04/Solar_Orbiter_s_widest_high-res_view_of_the_Sun.
🧬 **Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange**
"_Individuals with North African ancestry lived next to and intermingled with a majority of people of mainly Sicilian-Aegean ancestry in all sampled Punic sites, including Carthage. Moreover, genetic networks across the Mediterranean suggest that shared demographic processes—such as trade, intermarriage, and population mixing—played a critical role in shaping these communities._"
#Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Genomics #Science #History #Phoenicia #Culture @science
📏 **150 years ago, the Metre Convention determined how we measure the world — a radical initiative for the time**
**Codex Vigilanus Primeros Numeros Arabigos**
“_The first Arabic/Hindu (Ghobar type) numerals in a Western manuscript, AD 976. From Codex Vigilanus._”
#Image attribution: The original uploader was Srnec at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Vigilanus_Primeros_Numeros_Arabigos.jpg.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math @science
🇨🇳 **Chinese star catalog is the world’s oldest, astronomers claim**
“_Novel computer analysis of records ascribed to legendary Chinese astrologer dates them to nearly 2400 years ago_”
🔗 https://www.science.org/content/article/china-lays-claim-world-s-oldest-surviving-star-catalog.
**Drowning in junk science: Is there any hope at all?**
🔗 https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/17/drowning-in-junk-science-is-there-any-hope-at-all/.
🌍 **Scientists find evidence that overturns theories of the origin of water on Earth**
"_University of Oxford researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface. Instead, the material which built our planet was far richer in hydrogen than previously thought._"
🔗 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04-16-scientists-find-evidence-overturns-theories-origin-water-earth.
🔴 🛰️ **Garbage on the Final Frontier**
“_We’ve trashed Earth, so let’s trash space… Oh, wait, we already have!_”
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/garbage-on-the-final-frontier/.
#Science #Technology #Tech #Space #Pollution #Garbage #Rubbish @science
🔴 📖 **Skepticism about the science establishment, then and now**
“_In recent years, so many nonfiction books seem to be written to the airport-book template: 10 chapters, each starting with some personal anecdote, tons of repetition, almost nothing there. Even books with high-quality information provide very little of it, perhaps because the expectation is that no one will read these books from beginning to end anyway._”
🔗 https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/11/51458/.
#Read #Science #Literature #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @science
🔴 **The Risky Business of Geoengineering**
Bloomberg Originals
“_Is geoengineering a dangerous notion whose time has come? Scientists and entrepreneurs are testing radical ideas like solar radiation management and ocean fertilization - and finding funding for it._”
#Video length: twenty-four minutes and one second.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnXHJD0UI5U
#Risk #Geoengineering #Science #Technology #Tech #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @climatechange @science
🔴 **Ultra-processed foods are making us old beyond our years**
“_It found a significant association between increased UPF consumption and accelerated biological ageing. For every 10% increase in UPF consumption, the gap between biological and chronological age widened by approximately 2.4 months._”
🔗 https://blog.oup.com/2025/04/ultra-processed-foods-are-making-us-old-beyond-our-years/.
🔴 **Scientists identify most bitter substance ever known**
“_Bitter bracket mushroom compounds found to be most bitter substances known to man_”
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bitter-most-substance-ever-known-b2729280.html.
🔴 📖 ** Interview: Laurence D. Hurst On The Evolution Of Imperfection**
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/laurence-d-hurst-on-the-evolution-of-imperfection.
#Nonfiction #Essay #Biology #Science #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon @science @biology
🔴 💻 **Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science**
“_Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good._”
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01067-2.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Science @science
🔴 🧬 **Genetic data is an another asset to be exploited – beware who has yours**
John Naughton
“_When 23andMe’s data assets come up for sale the queue of likely buyers is going to be long, with health insurance and pharmaceutical giants at the front, followed by hedge-funds, private equity vultures and advertisers, with marketers bringing up the rear._”
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/05/genetic-data-breach-23andme-bankruptcy
🔴 **Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups**
“_We document an exception to this pattern in the wider Rhine-Meuse area in communities in the wetlands, riverine areas, and coastal areas of the western and central Netherlands, Belgium and western Germany, where we assembled genome-wide data for 109 people 8500-1700 BCE. Here, a distinctive population with high hunter-gatherer ancestry (∼50%) persisted up to three thousand years later than in continental European regions, reflecting limited incorporation of females of Early European Farmer ancestry into local communities._”
Olalde, I. et al. (2025) 'Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups,' bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.644985.
#Preprint #Science #Biology #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Europe @archaeodons
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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