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@maitxa Are you completely off Twitter?
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#GeorgeBoole, one of the founders of the computer age and the first Professor of Mathematics at
@UCC, died in Cork #OTD in 1864.
#BertrandRussell, who made efforts to have Boole’s papers printed, said that "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought" as “the work in which pure mathematics was discovered”. In it Boole applied his #boolean mathematics to the philosophy of #Spinoza and others as a practical demonstration.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/12/08/ones-and-zeros/
Bio: https://www.ucc.ie/en/heritage/historicpeople/ucc-staff/professor-george-boole/
@maitxa Maybe not all ideas should be taken as scientific fact.
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NEW: After interviewing hundreds of philosophers, these are the most recommended philosophy books on Five Books.
https://fivebooks.com/category/philosophy/most-recommended-philosophy-books/
Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record by one million years https://eurekalert.org/news-releases/973177 #Science #DNA #Genetics
Source: https://twitter.com/EurekAlert/status/1600910579283025920?s=20&t=h0uA6mhAed6UNY3ezI1xKQ
Roel Nicolai (2021) The Mapping of Africa on the Nautical Charts of the Age of Discovery, Terrae Incognitae, 53:3, 195-218, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2021.1995829 #OpenAccess #History #Map #Maps #Africa
James Fox (2022) Numeracy and Popular Culture: Cocker’s Arithmetick and the Market for Cheap Arithmetical Books, 1678–1787, Cultural and Social History, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2022.2089078 #OpenAccess #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Book #Books
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (2022) Another look at the two Egyptian pyramid volume ‘formulas’ of 1850 BCE, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, 37:3, 171-178, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2022.2106061 #OpenAccess #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics
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The Romance languages borrowed many words from Germanic.
Word-initial [w] from Germanic became [ɡw] in most Romance languages. For example, *werra became 'guerra' in Italian.
Spanish and Portuguese then reduced [ɡw] to [ɡ] before [i] and [e], French everywhere.
More examples:
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The #metric system is adding two new prefixes for extremely large numbers and two for extremely small numbers.
You probably know how big a kilogram is. But what about a ronnagram?
For reference, the mass of Earth is about six ronnagrams. Jupiter is about two quettagrams. An electron is a rontogram. And the mass of a bit of data on a mobile phone is about a quectogram.
Learn more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/metric-system-prefixes-what-to-know
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If you're studying early Massachuetts, then check out our list of archives for the Bay State. These are some of the best research libraries in the United States.
#VastEarlyAmerica #AmericanHistory #Histodons #Geneadons #Genealogy
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Equatorial Table Sundial, 17th century, German
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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Swear words in different languages - why do they sound as they do? https://theconversation.com/swear-words-we-studied-speakers-of-languages-from-hindi-to-hungarian-to-find-out-why-they-sound-the-way-they-do-192473 (Courtesy @theconversationau) #study #language
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High resolution scans of every single photo taken during the Apollo program is available on Flickr through NASA's "Project Apollo Archive."
I'm going to post the link but let me warn you right now it is very easy to lose a couple hours in there.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/page1
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Taken 50 years ago today with a film camera, and developed when the Apollo 17 crew got back home, the "blue marble" photo of Earth is believed to be the most reproduced image in human history.
https://theconversation.com/the-first-photograph-of-the-entire-globe-50-years-on-blue-marble-still-inspires-175051
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Horizontal table clocks were popular from the mid 1500s to the 1700s, though I guess you had to be rich to afford one like this! The mechanism has been removed so can see it. Made in 1620 in Germany, it gives a distinctive ring each quarter hour.
This is in an exhibit of clocks and watches in the Royal Museum. I'm killing time, waiting to check into a hotel nearby.
@maitxa The way sometimes that they are written, that might be a relevant statement.
‘I want to savour every word’: the joy of reading slowly https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/02/i-want-to-savour-every-word-the-joy-of-reading-slowly #Reading #Book #Books
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