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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
Francisco de Almeida - Part 1 - Age of Discovery
"He and his only son venture forth on the 7th Portuguese Armada to establish the worlds first trade empire. However the challenges that await them will test them to their core."
#Video length: 26 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IP3ejxyep0
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Portugal #Europe #Trade #Empire #Animation @histodon @histodons
The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism
"...thanks to Alexander the Great, Hellenistic and Buddhist cultures came into contact in the 4th century BCE, creating a cultural synthesis known as Greco-Buddhism."
#Video length: 19 minutes 10 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA0wB3d7MgE
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Religion #Buddhism #Ancient #Greece #Greek @histodon @histodons
Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke - Part 1
"This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Saul Kripke's famous 1970 attack on the Descriptivist Cluster Theory of Proper Names of John Searle."
#Video length: 22 minutes 34 seconds.
1962: The TELEVISION SET You Can WEAR | Tonight | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
"The Electrocula - a 30 ounce portable television set that can be worn on the head. They system projects a television picture onto an adjustable monocle in front of the viewer's eye, enabling them to watch television while doing other things."
#Video length: 2 minutes 24 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXBO5JuecPE
#History #BBC #Archive #Television #TV #Tech #Technology #STEM
Using AI in your PhD research might be a really bad idea
#Video length: 58 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HO--UzjEo
#PhD #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Writing #Research #Academia #Academic #Academics
Why Did the World Ignore This Island for 15 Years?
#Video length: 15:20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYkuYZQopXM
#History #Histodon #Histodons #France #Slavery #Slaves #IndianOcean #EarlyModern #C18th #18thCentury #TromelinIsland #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons @earlymodern
In Praise of Slow Reading
#Video length: 6:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHeHtpb5B4w
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
How Private Equity Consumed America
#Video length: 22 minutes 23 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK8hpxR_r2Y
#PrivateEquity #Finance #Capital #Capitalism #Business @finance
TikTok Conspiracy Theory: Ancient Rome Never Existed? A Classicist Reacts
#Video length: 46 minutes 10 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXvI5aopXA
#Debunking #Tiktok #Conspiracy #Ancient #Rome #Roman #Romans #Empire #History #Histodon #Histodons #Classics @histodon @histodons
Not something you will find me ever trying...
"The death-defying sport of climbing frozen waterfalls | 60 Minutes Australia"
#Video length: 59 seconds
Why so many Norse gods have multiple names
#Video length: 58 seconds
Science Doesn't Understand How Ice Forms
"What starts off as a simple desire to get a macro shot of a droplet of water freezing quickly leads George to the very edge of scientific knowledge and a shocking fact about most of the water on Earth."
#Video length: 10 minutes 31 seconds
https://youtu.be/24TB1vPuzIU
The Origins of the Rapture
"The Rapture: The belief that Jesus will remove all true Christians from the Earth prior to the end of the world and establishment of his kingdom. The belief is mostly found among American Evangelicals and is part of the larger theological framework called Dispensational Premillennialism. But where did this belief come from?"
#Video #Religion #Evangelical #Christianity #Theology #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Rapture #Jesus #Christ #JesusChrist #Bible #NewTestament @christianity @religion @theology
Discussing Teb Tengri and the Religious Views of Chinggis Khan
"Included is discussions of historical sources (Juvaini, Rashid al-Din, the Secret History of the Mongols) letters written by Hulegu Khan and Chinggis Khan's views (or lack there of?) towards Buddhism."
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #Religion #MongolEmpire #Asia #Empire #GenghisKhan #ChinggisKhan @histodon @histodons
In Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Tim O’Reilly and Ilan Strauss on Algorithmic Attention Rents
"A conversation about how today’s big tech platforms use the power they hold over the attention of billions of users to shape the markets in which they participate for their own benefit."
#Video length: 56 minutes and 46 seconds
#Tech #Technology #STEM #Conversation #Algorithms #Economics @economics
Video of sun’s surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss
"Scientists say the observations of the sun’s complex surface dynamics could help resolve the question of why the sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface – a longstanding paradox in solar physics."
#Science #News #Video #Sun #Space #ESA #Europe #Astronomy @science @astronomy
Why is a huge chunk of Earth's history missing?
#Video length: 58seconds
What happens when the permafrost thaws? | The Royal Society
"Around 11% of the Earth's land mass is covered by permafrost. But its delicate balance is being threatened by climate change."
#Video length: 8 minutes 14 seconds
#RoyalSociety #Science #Permafrost #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @science @climatechange
1861-1865: The Complete Story Of The American Civil War | History Of Warfare | Timeline
"Less than a century after gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States of America would be wracked by a Civil War as the secessionist Confederate States of the South fought the Union forces of the remaining loyal states. Four long years of war would result in the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the fate of the Union hung in the balance."
#Video length: 54 minutes 40 seconds
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #C19th #19thCentury @histodon @histodons
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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