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"He predicted that AI would soon be better at the “aggregation of information” than human journalists and said that only publishers who created “the best original content” – such as investigative journalism and original commentary – would survive." theguardian.com/world/2023/jun

"Research on ancient genomes has moved way beyond population mixture into broader questions about how ancient people lived and interacted with their environments." johnhawks.net/weblog/the-top-1 @science

Source: twitter.com/Qafzeh/status/1670

"Disenchantment with the West’s style of lending gave China the opportunity to become an aggressive creditor in countries like Argentina, Mongolia, Egypt and Suriname."

Why It Seems Everything We Know About Global Economy No Longer True; While World’s Eyes on Pandemic, War in Ukraine & China, Paths to Prosperity & Shared Interests Grow Murkier

nytimes.com/2023/06/18/busines via NYT
Photo via WCLV-FM
#Economy #Economics

Tom Grant (2023) Beowulfian Echoes in the Icelandic Ectors saga, English Studies, 104:1, 1-18, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2022.

@krzysztofdrozdowski Translating works can be a tricky task. The translator has to stay faithful to the original text whilst at the same time being understood in the other language.

@mjjmori @bookstodon Thank you for replying. I know the feeling. Sometimes as enjoyable as reading can be if the pace is slow it can really feel like you are trying to pass through quick setting concrete or trickle.

@krzysztofdrozdowski Thank you for sharing. I believe it is part of a series, maybe the next installment might meet with your approval.

Aleksi Huhta (2023) Fragile Connections: Finnish Settlers and U.S. Power in Cuba, c. 1904–1959, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 51:3, 534-554, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2023.

@histodon @histodons

"Psychical science, as we here try to pursue it, is the embryo of something which in time may dominate the whole world of thought."

William Crookes was born #OTD in 1832. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube which was made in 1875. This was a foundational discovery that eventually changed the whole of chemistry and physics. via @Wikipedia

Books about or by William Crookes at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55

#books #science #physics

"He became the first to report the phenomenon of coupled oscillation in two pendulum clocks (which he invented) in his bedroom while recovering from an illness in 1665." aps.org/publications/apsnews/2 @histodon @histodons @science

Source: twitter.com/APSphysics/status/

Nall, J., Taub, L., & Willmoth, F. (Eds.). (2019). The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: doi.org/10.1017/9781108633628 @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @science

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