Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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"Ethicists warn that without careful regulation, genome editing could lead to a two-tier society, split between those who are edited and those who are not." https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/crispr/ #Science #Technology #CRISPR #Genetics #DNA
Source: https://twitter.com/sciencefocus/status/1659515640120500225
May 1664: Hooke vs. Cassini: Who Discovered Jupiter’s Red Spot? https://aps.org/publications/apsnews/202005/history.cfm #History #Science #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1659182115232022528
"Prehistoric humans in Europe might have been sitting round campfires built to toast snacks as early as 250,000 years ago – 50,000 years earlier than originally thought, researchers have suggested." https://theguardian.com/science/2023/may/18/scientists-find-oldest-known-evidence-of-humans-in-europe-using-fires-to-cook #Science #Anthropology #Europe #Spain #Madrid
Scientist of the day: Barthélemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond. https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/barthelemy-faujas-de-saint-fond-4 #History #Science #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/bhgross144/status/1658877535906562054
"Dr Patricia Fara tells the story of Caroline Herschel, concert soprano turned astronomer, unkindly caricatured in Georgian times as ‘The Female Philosopher, smelling out the Comet’. " https://royalsociety.org/blog/2023/05/first-ladys-comet/ #History #Science #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/RSocPublishing/status/1658382180043702274
Is it the beginning of the end for scientific publishing? – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2023/may/16/is-it-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-scientific-publishing-podcast #Science #Books #Publishing #Podcast #bookstodon @bookstodon
"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
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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