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Why so many Norse gods have multiple names
#Video length: 58 seconds
A New Audience for the World’s First Author
"Around year 2000 BCE, the Sumerian language, in which the poems are written, died out as a native language, becoming instead a language of scholarship and religious rituals, much like Latin in Europe and Sanskrit in India. And so, it had to be taught in schools, and the copying of Sumerian poems—including those attributed to Enheduana—was a key part of the school curriculum in ancient Babylonian cities like Nippur and Ur."
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/05/06/a-new-audience-for-the-worlds-first-author/
#Ancient #History #Essays #Poetry #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Science Doesn't Understand How Ice Forms
"What starts off as a simple desire to get a macro shot of a droplet of water freezing quickly leads George to the very edge of scientific knowledge and a shocking fact about most of the water on Earth."
#Video length: 10 minutes 31 seconds
https://youtu.be/24TB1vPuzIU
A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics
"Weil’s Rosetta stone linked three fields of mathematics: number theory, geometry, and, in the middle, the study of finite fields.
Other mathematicians had proposed ideas in this direction, but Weil was the first to spell out an exact vision."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-rosetta-stone-for-mathematics-20240506/
@science Apart from the profit motive for animal husbandry businesses, why would they even want to try to do this?
@Jon6705 @linguistics It seems that they are only as clever as the minds that manufacture them.
@linguistics Falling or would the word 'plummeting' be more appropriate?
Yorkshire apostrophe fans demand road signs with nowt taken out
"Council says punctuation mark must go to suit computer databases, but grammar purists see signs of falling standards"
#News #England #Yorkshire #English #Language #Grammar #Linguistics @linguistics
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Globe: 540 Million Years of Planet Earth
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2024/05/540-million-years-of-planet-earth.html
In the end hubris nearly always leads them to their nemesis. If only they could comprehend.
The art of the bee
"As I set out to write a book on honey bee biology, I kept Humboldt as an aspirational model. Rather than write the typical biology text that reflected an excavation of levels of biological organization like taxonomy, biogeography, physiology, anatomy, etc., I built chapters around themes relating to honey bee impacts, behavior, and ecology."
https://blog.oup.com/2024/05/the-art-of-the-bee/
#Read #Reading #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Science #Biology #STEM @bookstodon @science @biology
Haxagen World
"Hexagen World is a game world generated by players using AI prompts. The game is similar to the popular r/Place project. However in Hexagen World instead of users adding one pixel to a collaborative image they can add AI generated hexagon tiles to a world map."
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2024/05/haxagen-world.html
The age structure of populations varies widely across countries
"Over the last 70 years, birth rates have declined in most countries, and life expectancy has increased, leading to aging populations worldwide."
"Infant mortality rates have plummeted over the last 50 years.
Globally, they’ve fallen by over two-thirds, from around 10% in 1974 to less than 3% today.
The study’s researchers estimate that 40% of this decline is due to vaccines."
Hannah Ritchie (2024) - “Vaccines have saved 150 million children over the last 50 years” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/vaccines-children-saved' [Online Resource]
#Data #DataViz #Science #Health #Vaccines #Research @science
Scientists are trying to get cows pregnant with synthetic embryos
"Synthetic embryos are clones, too—of the starting cells you grow them from. But they’re made without the need for eggs and can be created in far larger numbers—in theory, by the tens of thousands."
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@undefined @davidbisset A remarkable achievement
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“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars…Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo and #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/how-helsinki-and-oslo-cut-pedestrian-deaths-to-zero
@independentpen Totally agree.
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