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 cradle of British Christianity BURNED by Vikings**
#Video length: two minutes and nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/hgkac4abS1c
#Religion #Christianity #Vikings #Scotland #England #Britain #Europe #History #HIstodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #MiddleAges @histodon @histodons @medievodons
🔴 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🎥 **China prepares for Trump trade war**
_“The world’s two biggest economies are bracing for a fresh standoff after Donald Trump threatened blanket 60 per cent tariffs on Chinese exports”_
#Video length: one minute and twelve seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/8SS1FnyaJRQ
#FT #China #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Trade #Trump #Tariffs #Imports #Exports #Business #Economics @economics
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Funny Churchill Bloopers**
_“Behind-the-scenes of Churchill filming a 1950 election appeal.”_
#Video length: one minute and twenty-one seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/4oqVvVFUGNE
#History #Histodon #Histodons #WinstonChurchill #Churchill #Bloopers #UnitedKingdom #UK #Britain #C20th #20thCentury @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 **Eisenhower in 5 Minutes**
#Video length: four minutes and thirty-six seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/mXi5qUUwzOk
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #C20th #20thCentury #Eisenhower @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 🎥 **Used Bookstore Book Rescue - Attempting to Save A 130-Year-Old Book - Part 1**
#Video length: nineteen minutes and thirty-three seconds.
🔴 🎥 **The Art and Science of Light in the Middle Ages**
_"Scientists in the Middle Ages built on the science hypothesized by ancient philosophers via experimentation and observation. They created a solid foundation of the study of optics (vision and light), and even began to explore the neuroscience of light, or how light affects how we feel through brain processes."_
#Video length: nine minutes and forty-five seconds.
🔴 🇬🇱 🎥 **The Old Norse Language in Greenland**
_"Greenland's runestones and the dialect of Old Norse they point to."_
#Video length: fourteen minutes and forty seconds.
🔴 🖋️ How To Take Notes For Deeper Understanding - Think For Yourself Without AI
Robin Waldun
“A video on the limits of most note-taking methods and why the best notes are made by us, not Artificial Intelligence.”
#Video length: sixteen minutes and fifty-four seconds.
🔴 🎥 But why is a sphere's surface area four times its shadow?
3blue1brown
#Video length: fifteen minutes and fifty seconds.
I enjoy looking at city skylines at night whether that be #video or still #photography.
#Image attribution: Canary_Wharf_at_night,_from_Shadwell.jpg: Dave Papederivative work: Pointillist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Canary_Wharf_at_night%2C_from_Shadwell_cropped.jpg.
🔴 🎥 Did the Phoenicians Reach America Before Columbus?
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
“…Philip Beale examines the remarkable proposition that ancient Phoenicians might have travelled to the Americas more than a thousand years before Christopher Columbus.”
#Video length: one hour and twenty minutes.
🔴 📖 🎥 Scared to write in books? Watch this.
Odysseas
#Video length: eleven minutes and forty-three seconds
🔗 https://youtu.be/TYA5EmY72zY
#Write #Writing #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🎥 The Triangle Of Power
3Blue1Brown
#Video length: two minutes and twenty-six seconds.
🔴 🎥 Being 'Well-Read' Isn't What You Think - Emerson On Self-Education
Robin Waldun
#Video length: twelve minutes and twenty-four seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/QprhcZTS5IM
#Education #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🌍 🎥 Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1600 to 1750: Early Modern Balance of Power
The Burning Archive
#Video length: forty-four minutes and thirty-five seconds.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Imperialism #Empire #Colonisation #Colonization @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 A bizarre probability fact
#Video length: two minutes and forty eight seconds.
🔴 🎥 Bredt’s Rule was broken
"What's more fun than proving a 100 year old chemistry principle wrong?"
#Video length: fifty nine seconds.
🔴 🌡️ 🎥 How heatwaves impact our lives
"The thermal load is particularly high in cities. The record summer of 2003 in Paris, for example, led to apocalyptic conditions. According to climate experts, temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius cannot be ruled out for the French capital in the future."
#Video length: forty two minutes and twenty nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/JKEJ9p9YVY8
#Documentry #DWDocumentary #DWDocs #Climate #ClimateChange #Heatwaves #Science @science @climatechange
🔴 🎥 A banana on a wall is being sold for $1m at auction
The Italian artist behind the art is Maurizio Cattelan, who says his work is “not a joke” - it's about “how we value objects and how they move through the world".
#Video length: fifty six 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
