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
🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ 🎥 **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
🔴 📖 🎥 **How To Get The Most Out Academic Reading - The SQ3R Method For Beginners**
"_Another rapid-fire reading advice video on how to quickly maximize your understanding of academic and journal articles/papers while maximizing retention using the SQ3R reading method, alongside a few pointers on the challenges of dealing with technical/research-based reading._"
#Video length: eleve minutes and twenty one seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/UKFlWdVXYIg**
#Read #Reading #Research #Journals #Articles #Papers #Academia #Academic #Academics
🔴 🎥 **Brownian Motion**
"_This motion proved that atoms exist._"
#Video length: one minute.
🔴 📚 🎥 **Talking For 18 Minutes About Beautiful Old Books**
#Video length: eighteen minutes.
🔴 📚 🎥 **Beauty in Books**
#Video length: fifty six minutes and thirty eight seconds.
🔴 🇯🇵 🎥 **Why the Japanese Yen Is So Volatile**
"_...The trouble began when the yen's value started rising after the Bank of Japan hiked interest rates for a second time this year. Now, as the dust settles, investors and Japanese business owners alike are questioning the yen’s role in the global economy._"
#Video length: ten minutes and twenty two seconds.
🔴 🎥 **Germanic Loanwords in Finnic Languages (with Dr. Johan Schalin)**
"_Dr. Johan Schalin presents on the fascinating history of the long interaction between Germanic (primarily Scandinavian) languages and Finnic languages, and the many different periods in which Germanic loanwords entered and became a part of Finnic._"
#Video length: one hour and thirty four minutes.
🔗 https://youtu.be/LIgKd0Ovzy8
#LoanWords #Words #Germanic #Finnic #Language #Languages #Linguistics #Scandinavia #Europe @linguistics
🔴 ⚡ 🎥 **AI power demand could stifle industry's growth**
"_AI’s energy use is set to rocket. That could not only constrain the industry’s growth, but also threaten green energy targets. Renewable sources of energy may not be able to cope with the load and reliability of supply needed, so data centre developers are considering options such as onsite power generation and nuclear energy._"
#Video length: two minutes and fifty eight seconds.
🔴 📖 🎥 **1481 Book That Was Heavily Read**
#Video length: fifty nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/OCbx7mTZlXQ
#Read #Reading #RareBook #RareBooks #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Geometric Haircuts**
"_A Knightsbridge hair stylist uses Geometry to design haircuts of the future (1956)._"
#Video length: forty three seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/9SR963yYjOY
#Geometry #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Fashion #HairStyles #C20th #20thCentury #History #UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #London #Knightsbridge
🔴 🎥 **Why we say “OK”**
"_Young intellectuals in Boston came up with several of these abbreviations, including “KC” for “knuff ced,” “OW” for “oll wright,” and KY for “know yuse.” But thanks to its appearance in Martin Van Buren’s 1840 presidential re-election campaign as the incumbents new nickname, Old Kinderhook, OK outlived its abbreviated comrades._"
#Video length: five minutes and twenty one seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/1UnIDL-eHOs
#History #Word #Words #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
🔴 ⁉️ 🎥 **Where does punctuation come from?!**
"_In this episode I trace the punctuation we use every day as far back as I can._"
#Video length: eighteen minutes and fifty five seconds.
🔴 📖 🎥 **Tolkien’s Norse Mythology Inspiration**
#Video length: fifty eight seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/8s9VuPW8-L0
#Read #Reading #Tolkien #Norse #Mythology #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **The Story of British Pathé – Around the World**
"_A fascinating introduction to the history of the pioneering newsreel company British Pathé, which documented almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain and around the world in the 20th century._"
#Video length: fifty nine minutes and sixteen seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/eOqy744ViSc
#Documentary #History #Histodon #Histodons #BritishPathé #News #Archives #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Britain #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 🗺️ 🇳🇴 🎥 **See Historical Maps in Oslo**
"_Anders Kvernberg (National Library of Oslo, nb.no) shows us some of the amazing historical maps housed at the National Library's Maps Center._"
#Video length: twenty three minutes and twenty nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/jmnMrOPoNrI
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Map #Maps #Cartography #Archives #Library #Oslo #Norway #Scandinavia #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **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
🔴 🎥 **Clouds and climate change**
"_Meet cloud scientist Edward Gryspeerdt and find out why clouds aren't just fluffy shapes in the sky ⛅_"
#Video length: seven minutes and six seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/A9xAG601dG4
#Water #Ships #Travel #Physics #Clouds #Science #Climate #ClimateChange @physics @climatechange @science
🔴 🎥 **The Texas Preacher Who Used God to Steal**
"_In Tarrant County, Texas, an elderly man and former preacher advertised himself as “The Money Doctor”. He exploited the trust of his peers, skillfully hiding deceptive financial practices under a cloak of religious virtue. Bloomberg Investigates unveils the intimate story of those whose lives were destroyed by this $38 million dollar Ponzi scheme._"
#Video length: thirty one minutes and fifty three seconds.
🔴 📰 🎥 **Paleography and the Book Lecture “Where Did Newspaper Typeface Come From?”**
"_UChicago visiting scholar David Ganz discussed how influential scripts such as Caroline minuscule and Italian Humanistic served as models for typefaces like Times New Roman._"
#Video length: one hour and twenty one minutes.
🔗 https://youtu.be/hnTKDv0vdz0
#Lecture #Paleography #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Script #History #Histodon #Histodons #Typeface #Fonts #Typography #Newspaper #TimesNewRoman @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 🎥 **The Tragic Truth About Beautiful Books**
#Video length: eighteen minutes and nine minutes.
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.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
