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
📚 🎥 **What to do when reading gets hard**
"_Sometimes, reading gets tough. And it's hard to even understand what you're reading. Here are a couple of techniques to help you when you're in that situation_"
🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 **1807-09: How The Peninsular War Began**
"_This documentary explores the brutal beginnings of the Peninsular War, from the bloody Madrid uprising to Sir John Moore’s harrowing retreat to Corunna._"
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24kwmJGL7aA.
#Video #Documentary #History #Histodons #Spain #Portugal #UK #UnitedKingdom #France #Iberia
📚 🎥 **Gutenberg & the European Invention of Printing**
"_This talk examines what Gutenberg actually invented and why it could create such a big change. It looks at the books Gutenberg produced and uses them to tell the story of the technical and economic problems that had to be solved._"
🇨🇳 🎥 **How the Han dynasty changed Chinese pronunciation**
📚 🎥 **How to Start Reading Again in 2026**
🗺️ 🎥 **SECRET MAPS – Exhibition Private View**
"_Curators Tom Harper, Nick Dykes and Magdalena Peszko lead us into the hidden landscapes of history, where maps don’t just show the world — they shape it, conceal it and reveal its silent truths._"
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfrsaX7lABk.
#Video #History #Maps #Cartography #Library #UK #UnitedKingdom
🎥 **I’m begging you to write essays**
🎥 **The Simplest Unsolved Ancient Problem**
"_Ancient Greek mathematicians wrestled for centuries with a seemingly pointless problem that led them to rich mathematical discoveries._"
🎥 **Modern Myths about the Age of Homer**
"_Archaeologist Bryan Burns surveys ancient finds from Troy and Mycenae and their connection to Homeric epics, addressing common misconceptions about the Late Bronze Age in scholarship and popular culture._"
🎥 **The first Nuremburg trial**
"_The Nuremberg trials started 80 years ago and marked a milestone in the establishment of international law. The images of high-ranking Nazis in the dock are seared into our collective memory._"
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCEX7jV2cx8.
#Video #Documentary #History #Histodons #NuremburgTrial #Nazism #ThirdReich
📚 🎥 **Nonfiction Books to look out for in November 2025**
🇨🇳 🎥 **China steps up campaign to de-dollarise**
📚 **The Book Report: New fiction and non-fiction (Nov. 2)**
Book highlights from Washington Post book reviewer Ron Charles on CBS News.
🔗 https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-book-report-new-fiction-and-non-fiction-nov-2/.
🇺🇸 📖 🎥 **Jeffrey Rosen on The Pursuit of Liberty**
"_Jeffrey Rosen talked about his book, The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America._"
#Video length: forty-seven minutes and two seconds.
🔗 https://www.c-span.org/program/washington-journal/jeffrey-rosen-on-the-pursuit-of-liberty/668129.
#History #Histodons #Politics #USPol #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
🇦🇺 🎥 **Why people are falling in love with AI companions**
"_The rise of artificial intelligence companions and the dangers of falling in love with them._"
#Video length: twenty minutes and twenty-four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d08BZmdZu8.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Love #Relationships #60Mins #Australia
🎥 **The $2 Million Lost Book of Archimedes**
"_A prayer book holding hidden text reveals long-buried secrets from the greatest mathematician of the ancient world._"
#Video length: forty minutes and forty-two seconds
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXNIgHov0Nk
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Archimedes #Book
🌍 🎥 **Plastic fantastic — How the world is choking on plastic**
"_Plastic is everywhere, not just in our rivers and oceans. It permeates the air, soil, and even our bodies. The problem is getting worse, and yet the plastics industry is increasing production._"
🔗 https://www.dw.com/en/plastic-fantastic-how-the-world-is-choking-on-plastic/video-74443428.
🎥 The Physics of Euler's Formula | Laplace Transform Prelude
"_How dynamics explain Euler's formula, and vice versa._"
🎥 **The Month Of October In History**
"_In 1929, New York Stock Exchange Slump_
_In 1946, Nuremberg - The Verdicts
In 1962, President John F Kennedy Speech - Sound_
_In 1962, Crisis Over Cuba
In 1967, Vietnam Protest_"
🇮🇹 🇪🇹 🎥 **Second Italo-Ethiopian War - 1935**
"_On this day in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia, marking the beginning of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War._"
#Video length: three minutes and eleven seconds.
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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