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🔴 Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts
“Climate change is a glaring symptom of a deeper systemic issue: ecological overshoot, [which] is an inherently unstable state that cannot persist indefinitely. As the risk of Earth’s climate system switching to a catastrophic state rises, more and more scientists have begun to research the possibility of societal collapse. Even in the absence of global collapse, climate change could cause many millions of additional deaths by 2050. We need bold, transformative change.”
#News #ClimateChange #Climate #FossilFuels #Population #Environment #Science @science @climatechange
🔴 🎥 How are holograms possible?
"3d scenes on 2d film, and a diffraction lesson along the way."
#Video length: forty six minutes and twenty three minutes.
🔴 🎥 How are holograms possible?
"3d scenes on 2d film, and a diffraction lesson along the way."
#Video length: forty six minutes and twenty three minutes.
⭐ Experts say these species will be brought back from dead before 2028 – with help from Paris Hilton
"But Ben Lamm, the company’s chief executive, said it is “highly likely” the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger could potentially pip the mammoth – which went extinct around 4,000 years ago – to the post within the next three years."
⭐ An Instrument of Social Control: The Scientization of Drunkenness
"Theories of alcoholism came to be used as instruments of social control. Medical discourses influenced anti-alcohol movements and later supported the tendency to make “drunkards” invisible by committing them to drinkers’ asylums."
https://historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/24667
#History #Histodon #Histodons #HistSci #Science #Medicine #Society #Alcohol #Alcoholism @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Scientists grow ‘lost tree’ mentioned in Bible using mysterious 1,000-year-old seed**
"_Researchers suspected the “Sheba” tree to be a candidate for the “Judean Balsam” or “Balm of Judea”, which was cultivated exclusively in the desert region of southern Levant during Biblical times._"
#News #Bible #Levant #Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons @science @archaeodons
🟡 **<font color="yellow">Lord Kelvin: how the 19th century scientist combined research and innovation to change the world</font>**
"_Thomson’s lifelong talent for inventing ingenious scientific instruments secured him 70 patents, enabled dozens of scientific breakthroughs and made him a highly successful entrepreneur._"
🔴 **Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas**
"_That we infer the Native American component in Ancient Rapanui to be most closely related to Pacific Coast South Americans and not North Americans or populations east of the Andes further substantiates trans-Pacific contacts between Polynesians and Native Americans._"
Moreno-Mayar, J.V., Sousa da Mota, B., Higham, T. et al. Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas. Nature 633, 389–397 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07881-4
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Ancient #DNA #Anthropology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genomics #PopulationGenetics #Genetics #Science #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology @archaeodons @science
🔴 🔬 🎥 **The Revolutionary Compound Microscope**
"_Get a close-up look at a French gilt-bronze compound microscope, a technological wonder of the18th century, with conservator Arlen Heginbotham._"
#Video length: five minutes and six seconds.
🔴 🌡️ 🎥 **Summer heat record puts world on track for hottest year ever**
"_Scientists have confirmed that the summer in the northern Hemisphere has just broken global heat records for the second consecutive year. That means that 2024 is likely to be the hottest year ever recorded._"
#Video length: twenty two seconds.
🔴 🎥 **An Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Explain the Universe**
"_Why would archaeologists care about a particle physics experiment hiding deep beneath the Apennine Mountains, seeking to answer one of the most fundamental mysteries of reality as we know it?_"
#Video length: thirty one minutes and fourteen seconds.
🔴 🎥 **Brownian Motion**
"_This motion proved that atoms exist._"
#Video length: one minute.
🔴 🇪🇸 **Five centuries of consanguinity, isolation, health, and conflict in Las Gobas: A Northern Medieval Iberian necropolis**
"_By integrating genetic, archaeological, and historical data, we unveil the presence of an endogamous and consanguineous community in Northern Iberia. Despite centuries of turbulent regional history, this community experienced limited external gene flow. Our findings indicate that this community remained relatively isolated for at least five centuries._"
Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela et al., Five centuries of consanguinity, isolation, health, and conflict in Las Gobas: A Northern Medieval Iberian necropolis. Sci. Adv.10, eadp8625 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp8625.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #DNA #Palaeogenetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Iberia #Medieval #Medievodons #Spain #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @anthropology @medievodons
🔴 **Prozac entering waterways is changing how fish behave and reproduce, study says**
_“Even at low concentrations, fluoxetine altered the guppies’ body condition and increased the size of their gonopodium, while simultaneously reducing sperm velocity – an essential factor for reproductive success,” study co-author Upama Aich from Monash University in Australia said._
🔗 **https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/prozac-waterways-fish-behaviour-pollution-b2602241.html**
#Prozac #Antidepressants #Ecology #Pollution #Science #News @science
🔴 **Temperature-related mortality burden and projected change in 1368 European regions: a modelling study**
"_By 2100, based on our modelling, heat-related deaths in Europe could increase to more than 234 455 deaths annually in the worst scenario, compared with around 43 729 deaths for the current scenario (1991–2020), potentially shifting the mortality peak from cold to warm seasons in certain regions._"
🔗 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(24)00179-8/fulltext
#TheLancet #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Research #Science #PublicHealth #Health #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange
🔴 **Conceptual contamination: Investigating the impact of misinformation on conceptual change and inoculation strategies**
"_In the present investigation, we found that text order was an important consideration for how learners build their understanding of the to-be-learned content. While all conditions learned a significant amount, those who saw the misinformation text first, followed by the expository explanation, performed the worst on the posttest measure of learning._"
Danielson, R. W., Heddy, B. C., Ramazan, O., Jin, G., Gill, K. S., & Berry, D. N. (2024). Conceptual contamination: Investigating the impact of misinformation on conceptual change and inoculation strategies. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21963
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Article #Science #Education #Misinformation #Academia #Academic #Academics
🔴 **Students Need Tech-Free Classrooms**
"_STEM students, in particular, need this lesson. Modern science tends to reduce all human thought to method by modeling it on mathematics. The man to devise this practice was René Descartes, and he invented it while shut up alone in a cabin in winter, stranded without his equipment. He also famously withdrew into himself, in monkish meditation. Are his youngest intellectual heirs in the STEM disciplines ever encouraged to do the same?_"
🔗 https://www.newsweek.com/students-need-tech-free-classrooms-opinion-1937179
#Opinion #STEM #Tech #Technology #Education #College #University #Science @science
🔴 ☀️ **The age of the Sun depends on when you look at it**
"_It has established that the age of the Sun, as determined by helioseismology, varies significantly according to the level of activity of the solar cycle. To give an order of magnitude, the Sun is around 4.6 billion years old, and variations of up to 300 million years have been observed between solar minima._"
🔗 https://www.unige.ch/medias/en/2024/lage-du-soleil-depend-du-moment-ou-le-regarde
🔴 🇬🇧 **What is a blue supermoon and when will it appear in UK skies?**
"_Relatively rare lunar phenomenon of a blue moon combined with supermoon will occur in full for three days_"
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/19/what-is-blue-supermoon-when-uk-skies
#Moon #Astronomy #Space #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain @science
🔴 🎥 **Mpox: First case of contagious variant outside Africa reported**
"_The disease - previously known as monkeypox - has been largely contained in the Democratic Republic of Congo where it's endemic. It now appears to have spread through Eastern Africa and into Scandinavia._"
#Video length: seven minutes and forty seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/W-NHWDg5yxk
#Mpox #DRC #Sweden #Europe #Africa #Science #Medicine #Health #Emergency #Epidemiology @science
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph 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.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
