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
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Lord Mountbatten's Emotional Tribute to Winston Churchill (1965)**
#Video length: six minutes and thirty eight seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKirZk6qFCU
#GB #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #WinstonChurchill #Churchill #Mountbatten #History #Histodon #Histodons #Television #TV #Archive @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 **Why The US South Is Insanely Religious**
#Video length: twenty one minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knHhPDfT9Jw
#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Religion #Christianity @religion @christianity
🔴 🏴 🎥 **The Island Of St. Kilda (1908)**
#Video length: seven minutes and thirty three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXi0UhMvwUw
#StKilda #Scotland #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **The billion dollar business of gambling addiction**
"_The sports betting sector generates huge revenues and profits by exploiting some of the weakest members of society. With impunity. Around 37 million Euros worth of bets are placed every day in Europe. The market has grown 40-fold over the past 20 years._"
#Video length: forty two minutes and twenty five seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyeWEhIIzY
#Documentary #Gambling #Betting #Addiction #Business #Profits
🔴 🇳🇴 🎥 **See Norse Manuscripts in Oslo**
"_Dr. Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir and Dr. Ole-Albert Rønning Nordby talk about the impressive collection of unique Old Norse manuscripts on display at the National Library of Norway (nb.no), focused on Magnus the Lawmender's Landslova, now through mid-September 2024._"
#Video length: forty six minutes and fifty five seconds.
🔴 🎥 **Rethinking the Gauls, the Forgotten Civilization**
"_The idea of the primitive Gauls, living in the forest until they were civilized and assimilated into the Roman Empire, is now regarded as totally obsolete. In this film, archaeologists and historians uncover Gaulish settlements to reveal the true face of the Gauls._"
#Video length: fifty two minutes and four seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQl34vcrz40
#History #Archaeology #HIstodon #Histodons #Archaeodons #Documentary #Gaul #Europe @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 🎥 **There Is No Escaping Shakespeare. The New York Times**
#Video length: three minutes and fifty one seconds.
🔴 🇮🇸 🎥 **How Similar Are Old Norse and Icelandic? A Reading with Dr. Jesse Byock**
"_In this clip our guest Dr. Jesse Byock of U.C.L.A. and the University of Iceland reads a passage from the Saga of the Greenlanders to highlight the similarities between Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, and modern Icelandic._"
#Video length: two minutes and eleven seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD_OU_HXIWw
#Iceland #Icelandic #OldNorse #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
🔴 🎥 **1935 Population Levels**
#Video length: thirty eight seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyFbGG78VCI
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Population #Demography #Demographics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **Vikings didn't have tattoos**
"_The only medieval source to claim that Vikings had tattoos comes from the furthest edge of their culture's world, and the lack of any Old Norse word or description of tattoos makes it unlikely they were a common decoration._"
#Video length: eleven minutes and thirty eight seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU-W9fDqS-M
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Viking #Vikings @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **This tiny solar-powered flyer weighs less than a paper plane**
"_...researchers have developed CoulombFly, a solar-powered MAV propelled by a new extremely efficient electro-static motor and powered by incredibly light solar panels._"
#Video length: three minutes and three seconds.
🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia In Colour Episode 3: Populate or Perish**
"_The government adopts the slogan "populate or perish" after World War II and immigration changes the face of Australia. This influx of labor and the diversification of the economy delivers increasing prosperity._"
#Video length: forty seven minutes and thirty eight seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2hNF91Og5Y
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Documentary #Australia #Immigration #Migration #Migrants #Immigrants @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia In Colour Episode 2: Shifting Allegiances**
"_Sport and comedy offer some relief from the hunger and hopelessness of the Great Depression - at least until the war breaks out. Australia sends troops to Europe to fight beside Britain but when Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the nation turns to America for protection and pulls troops out of the Middle East._"
#Video length: forty seven minutes and forty five seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aytnob10oT4
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Documentary #Australia #GreatDepression #WWII #WW2 @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia in Colour Episode 1: Outpost of the Empire**
"_Modern Australia was born on January 1, 1901, when six British colonies united. Agriculture and mining transformed the country. "Australia in Colour" is the history of Australia told through a unique collection of cinematic moments brought to life for the first time in color._"
#Video length: forty nine minutes and fifty one seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLHMh8ov9I
#Documentary #Australia #History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #UK #Empire #Colonies @histodon @histodons
🎥 **Callan Davies on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor**
#Video length: four minutes and forty seven seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv164t8ZH44
#Read #Reading #Shakespeare #Literature #Book #Books #Bookstodon @literature @bookstodon
🎥**This Video is About Electroadhesion.**
"_..a new discovery called “hard-soft electroadhesion” enables chemists to stick almost any hydrogel to almost any metal, using nothing but an electric current._"
#Video length: fourteen minutes and four seconds.
🎥 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 **How Chinese Brands Are Dominating U.S. Rivals Like McDonalds and Apple**
"_Major American brands like Apple, Nike, Starbucks and McDonald’s are rapidly losing market share in China to new domestic rivals. Chinese tech company Huawei, sportswear brand Anta, Luckin’ Coffee and fast-food restaurant Tastien are eating away at these American brands' market dominance._"
#Video length: six minutes and twenty seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHOSEFRtaNc
#China #US #USA #UnitedStates #Business #American #Chinese #Corporations
**Diverting the Gulf Stream**
"_A brief look at a US senator's proposal to divert the Gulf Stream away from Europe._"
🎥 #Video length: fifty three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2li3AGjiEo
#BritishPathé #History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #Nature #Climate #Europe #US #USA #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons
**Why Reading in Translation Fails Us – Interview with Tim Griffith, creator of Picta Dicta**
"_Who killed Latin? Why should we bother to learn Latin and Ancient Greek, instead of just reading the great works in translation? Why does translation fail us?_"
🎥 #Video length: one hour and thirty six minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iPyrul1ND0
#Latin #Ancient #Greek #Language #Languages #Translation #Translations
**The Atomic Human -understanding ourselves in the age of AI**
"_In this insightful talk, Neil Lawrence will reveal how AI serves as a powerful assistant to human intelligence, not a replacement. He will discuss the limits of AI in replicating human thought and its profound impact on society and information management._"
🎥 #Video length: forty four minutes and fifty 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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Joined Nov 2022
