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.
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The other wonders of the Ancient World
Beyond the canonical list of the Seven Wonders, throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, many lists were drawn up that included other equally impressive works.
https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/the-other-wonders-of-the-ancient
📚 📻 **Books We Love: NPR staff's top non-fiction picks of the year**
@sjslocombe I have visited Peertube in the past but found the content available on the platform limited. I will have to go back and have another look. Thank you for the suggestion.
🗺️ **Is it time to redraw our maps?**
"_From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands_"
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/14/is-it-time-to-redraw-our-maps.
📺 **Youtube Alternatives**
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Afternoon all
📚 🇺🇸 **Buy University Press Books This Holiday Season**
"_It’s so incredibly important to support these publishers. They are still, in large part, responsible for pushing fields of study like history and specifically the Civil War era into new and exciting directions._"
🔗 https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/buy-university-press-books-this-holiday
#USA #UnitedStates #History #Histodons #UniversityPress #Books #Bookstodon
📖 **The Blood in Winter: England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642**
"_A brilliant account of how the seeds of battle were sown._"
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Review #Books #Bookstodon
#Image attribution: William Faithorne, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King_Charles_I_Met_DP886208.jpg.
🇮🇹 **A Thousand and One Nights in Italy**
"_In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style._"
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-thousand-and-one-nights-in-italy/.
#Essay #History #Histodons #Architecture #Orientalism #Art #Culture #Italy
#Image attribution: Vincenzo Paganori, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_by_Vincenzo_Paganori_of_Castello_di_Sammezzano_02.jpg.
**Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2**
"_Efforts to lower the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may come too late to prevent long-term changes to the Arctic_"
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Arctic
#Image attribution: U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Reindeer_Graze_in_the_Arctic_(27428057380).jpg.
🖥️ **Report Reveals the Devastating Cost of AI Intimacy**
_“I was training my own replacement, teaching machines how to manipulate lonely people the same way I was being forced to,” he writes._
🔗 https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/report-reveals-the-devastating-cost-of-ai-intimacy/.
🖥️ **Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes**
"_Large language models such as ChatGPT come with filters to keep certain info from getting out. A new mathematical argument shows that systems like this can never be completely safe._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #ComputerScience #LLMS #MachineLearning
🔬 **Ultra-processed foods are ‘pushing aside’ all other food groups to dominate global diets**
"_Professor Carlos Monteiro, of the University of São Paulo, highlighted the dangers UPFs represent to global health, and recommends that they be regulated in a similar way to tobacco with warning labels and advertising restrictions._"
🏴 📖 **Making Babies in Early Modern England**
"_Early modern English people were obsessed with making babies. In this fascinating new history, Leah Astbury traces this preoccupation through manuscript letters, diaries, recipe books and almanacs, revealing its centrality to family life._"
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009602846.
#OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #EarlyModern #England #Health #Medicine #Gender #Academia #Books #Bookstodon
⌛ 🏴 **Timekeeping in Early Modern England**
"_In early modern England the time and date was often an informal matter, which had the potential to pose problems._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/timekeeping-early-modern-england.
📚 🎥 **What to read and watch over winter break 2025**
"_Add these picks from UChicago award winners to your list_"
🔗 https://news.uchicago.edu/story/what-read-and-watch-over-winter-break-2025.
🏴 **Assessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis**
"_A rise in negative health markers affecting Roman individuals is identified, particularly within urban centres, suggesting life under Roman occupation was less conducive to long-term health."_
Pitt, R. (2025) ‘Assessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis’, Antiquity, pp. 1–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10263.
#OpenAccess #OA #Archaeology #IronAge #Romans #Health #England #Research #Academia
📚 **6 books that inspired IMD professors in 2025**
"_From the systemic roots of corporate scandals to the unseen human cost of AI, plus timely insights from a 50-year-old classic, IMD professors reveal the six books that shaped their thinking in 2025._"
🔗 https://www.imd.org/ibyimd/book-review/6-books-that-inspired-imd-professors-in-2025/.
#Image attribution: Ch. Maderthoner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Books_03.JPG.
Afternoon all
🖥️ **In 2026, AI will outwrite humans**
_“It’s a story about volume, value, and what journalism becomes when “content” grows functionally infinite.”_
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/in-2026-ai-will-outwrite-humans/.
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.
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