Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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 containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🎥 Nazi SS Veterans Interviewed in Cold War West Germany (1965)
"Protesters were marching ahead of a meeting of veterans of the Waffen-SS, the combat arm of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Demonstrators were alarmed by media reports that SS veterans were secretly assisting each other into positions of power in West German society, including the country's security services."
#Video length: eight minutes and two seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/MD28z3ioiQ8
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #Nazis @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🎥 China Is Outspending the U.S. to Achieve the ‘Holy Grail’ of Clean Energy
"Fusion has the potential to create nearly limitless energy with no carbon emissions and very limited radioactivity. If China wins, it would have a leg up in a growing competition over energy resources as the U.S. is trying to shift more supply chains within domestic borders."
#Video length: seven minutes and fifty one seconds.
#WSJ #China #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Energy #CleanEnergy
🔴 🎥 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.
⭐ 🎥 Why Ancient Greek is so hard... and how to fix it!
#Video length: one hour and fifteen minutes.
#AncientGreek #AncientGreece #Ancient #Greek #Greece #Language #Learning #Education
⭐ 🎥 The invention that broke English spelling
"The invention of the printing press ushered in a literary revolution, helping to create the world as we know it. However... it also made a terrible mess of English."
#Video length: twenty two minutes and forty six seconds.
⭐ 🎥 A simple yet impossible test (unless you have synesthesia)
"Synesthesia (or synaesthesia British spelling) is a phenomenon in which stimulating one sense or thought automatically triggers another."
#Video length: nine minutes and fifty two seconds.
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **1957: BRITISH SUNDAYS - Should We Have More FREEDOM?**
"_Christopher Chataway reports on the British Sunday, when theatres, shops and restaurants are closed and most sporting events are prohibited._
#Video length: eight minutes and fourteen seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/n62zZATx9Ts**
#History #Sunday #Europe #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #British #Freedom #C20th #20thCentury
🔴 🎥 **Why There's a New Race to the Moon**
"_It’s been over 50 years since an astronaut last walked on the moon, but this decade could see a number of countries attempt to send humans back. So, who’s in the race and why now?_"
#Video length: twelve minutes and eleven seconds.
🔴 🎥 **Hitler's American Ranch?**
#Video length: eight minutes and eighteen seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/T_qulE5iXi4**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Hitler #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **Sigrun's Wrath And The Discovery Of Iceland ¦ Viking Women**
"_The Vikings changed Europe forever, yet half of them have almost completely disappeared from collective memory: the women. Quite unjustly so, as they played an important role in the world of the Vikings and performed extraordinary deeds: Viking women commanded ships and settled colonies._"
#Video length: fifty two minutes and one second.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/h4D89QcTLGo**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Documentary #Vikings #Women #Iceland #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **AI Struggles to Solve Moravec's Paradox**
"_Simple everyday tasks that humans find incredibly easy can flummox the most advanced robots, according to Moravec’s paradox. But that may soon change._"
#Video length: one minute
🔴 🎥 **The Revenge of Analog: For Those Who Are Sick of the Digital World**
"_Humans are analogue! We're literally sick of the digital world engulfing us. People are yearning for real things and authenticty. IMPOSSIBLE is sensuous and inspiring film about the revenge of analog._"
#Video length: one hour and thirty eight minutes.
🔴 📚 🎥 **Hugh of Fouilloy and William of Conches’ De Natura Avium**
"_Are you interested in old books? Written and compiled in the late 12th century, this luxury manuscript compiles several texts about the natural world, including from natural philosopher and medieval scientist William of Conches._"
#Video length: seven minutes and thirty one seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/7dmVcDXM7vk**
#History #OldBook #OldBooks #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🔬 🎥 **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.
🔴 📚 🎥 **Trying To Make £10,000 In A Week Selling Old Books**
#Video length: twenty five minutes and forty nine 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.
🔴 📚 🎥 **Why are philosophy books so boring and challenging?**
#Video length: fifty three seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/V25l2SywuuM**
#Read #Reading #Philosophy #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Education @philosophy @bookstodon
🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ 🎥 **How bad maps win elections - Gerrymandering explained**
"_Why does the USA draw district maps with absolutely bonkers shapes? And how do squiggly districts help the wrong politicians win elections? And have we been pronouncing "Gerrymandering" wrong for 200 years?_"
#Video length: eleven minutes and thrity nine seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg**
#Map #Maps #Cartography #Election #Elections #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates
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 containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
