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
🔴 🎥 **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
🔴 📖 🎥 **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
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
