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<strong>Medieval Mongolian Writing: How Much Survives?</strong>

"_This video looks at the history of writing amongst the Mongols and other nomadic peoples, with special focus on the writing of Mongolian during the days of the Mongol Empire._"

#Video length: twenty two minutes and forty one seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5_UFOo1uPA

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #Mongol #Empire #Mongols #Asia #Writing @histodon @histodons @medievodons

<strong>Indo-European Syntax (with Danny Bate)</strong>

#Video length: one hour and forty minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlQU2p_u4LQ

#IndoEuropean #Language #Languages #Syntax #Linguistics @linguistics

<strong>Episode 297 – The Rise and Rise of Nicaea</strong>

"_With the Bulgarians and Turks hobbled by the Mongols the field is clear for Nicaea. John Vatatzes annexes a huge swathe of European territory and is widely recognised as the true Roman Emperor._"

https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/66609088aa134f00127e6a9c

#Audio #Podcast #History #Byzantium #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons

#Image attribution: Claus Grünstäudl w18, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elegant_steel_microphone_(Unsplash).jpg

@Smrki @economics What do you think about the question raised in the video namely that traditional methods are make the Japanese economy inefficent?

<strong>The Ancestors of Today's Poles with the Haplogroup R1a</strong>

"_Genetic studies proved the autochthonic theory of Polish origin to be true at least as by the 2nd century BCE or possibly about 2000 BCE. The Polish nobility’s myth was its Sarmatian origin, a myth that proved to be true partially culturally and partially genetically. The Scythian and Slavic peoples grow out of the same Indo-European genetic trunk, or
rather, they are branches of the same thicker limb._"

Wojciech J. Cynarski (2021). The Ancestors of Today's Poles with the Haplogroup R1a. Sociology and Anthropology, 9(2), 19-25. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.13189/sa.2021.090202

#Research #DOI #IndoEuropean #Aryan #Scyth #Slavic #Lechite #Pole #Sociology #Anthropology #Science #Genetics #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @sociology @anthropology

@randahl It might be a case of 'having your cake and eating it'?

<strong>Jaw-dropping views of the Milky Way and more — May’s best science images</strong>

"_The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team._"

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-024-01582-8/index.html

#Science #Image #Images #Photo #Photos @science

<strong>5 Things You Didn't Realize Were Named After People</strong>

"_This video looks at 5 overlooked eponyms that you might encounter on a daily basis._"

#Video length: fifty nine seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYZZrV7wASU

#Word #Words #Eponyms

🇯🇵 <strong>Why Japan’s Economy Is So Fiercely Inefficient | WSJ</strong>

"_WSJ’s Peter Landers explains how being fiercely traditional is weighing down Japan’s economy._"

#Video length: five minutes and fifty three seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8MldJsSjl4

#Japan #Japanese #Economy #Traditions #Economics @economics

<strong>Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe</strong>

"_The historical and archaeological record leave no doubt that the development of culture and population in southwestern Germany was temporarily characterized by profound discontinuities, particularly during the third to first century BCE. The definitive end of the 2,000 years of relative genetic continuity from the Bronze throughout the Iron Age in southern Germany is marked by a sudden, sharp increase of Steppe-related ancestry during the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages._"

Gretzinger, J., Schmitt, F., Mötsch, A. et al. Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe. Nat Hum Behav (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01888-7

#OpenAccess #OA #Reasearch #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Biology #Science #Anthropology #History #Histodon #Histodons #PopulationGenetics #Population #Genetics #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons @anthropology @histodon @histodons

Languages from the World of the Bible

"The breakthrough of the alphabetic script early in the first millennium BCE coincides with the appearance of several new languages and civilizations in ancient Syria-Palestine. Together, they form the cultural setting in which ancient Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and, transformed by Hellenism, the New Testament took shape."

Gzella, H. 2011. Languages from the World of the Bible. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781934078631/html

#OpenAccess #OA #AncientNearEast #Ancient #Classics #Language #Languages #History #Histodon #Histodons #OldTestament #Theology #Religion #Bible #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @theology @religion @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (83)

<strong>Is the number of natural disasters increasing?</strong>

"_A deep dive into missing data and the limitations of disaster databases._"

Hannah Ritchie and Pablo Rosado (2024) - “Is the number of natural disasters increasing?” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/disaster-database-limitations' [Online Resource].

#Data #DataViz

<strong>How to Prove 1=0, And Other Maths Illusions - Sarah Hart</strong>

"_These “proofs” reveal some very common logical slips that can go unnoticed when we are trying to prove more plausible statements. And the stakes are high._"

#Video length: one hour and three minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ1KvmHcmTI

#Lecture #Maths #Mathematics #Math

<strong>Charted: Declining Birth Rates in the Most Populous Countries (1950-Today)</strong>

"_Birth rates are falling in the six most populated countries in the world, though at different speeds._

_This graphic shows the annual births per 1,000 people in the world’s six largest countries by population. The data is from the UN World Population Prospects (2022) and has been compiled by Our World in Data._"

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-declining-birth-rates-in-the-most-populous-countries-1950-today/

#Data #DataViz #Human #Birth #Population #Demography

<strong>The Making and Unmaking of a Presidency: Envisioning Empire in British Bencoolen, 1685–1825</strong>

"_The effort to transform Sumatra into a productive constituent of a larger imperial nexus depended on many of the same processes that were to shape modern capitalism. Not only did British officials in Bencoolen deploy coerced and enslaved labor, they did so with the intent of wresting control of the production, consumption, and circulation of valuable commodities such as pepper and sugar. Practices of slavery, transplantation, and agrarian change typically associated with British colonies in the Atlantic world fundamentally shaped Bencoolen._"

Bains, T. (2024) ‘The Making and Unmaking of a Presidency: Envisioning Empire in British Bencoolen, 1685–1825’, Journal of British Studies, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.142.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Imperialism #Empire #Europe #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons

<strong>AI can 'fake' empathy but also encourage Nazism, disturbing study suggests</strong>

"_Computer scientists have found that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and large language models (LLMs) can inadvertently allow Nazism, sexism and racism to fester in their conversation partners._

_When prompted to show empathy, these conversational agents do so in spades, even when the humans using them are self-proclaimed Nazis. What's more, the chatbots did nothing to denounce the toxic ideology._"

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-can-fake-empathy-but-also-encourage-nazism-disturbing-study-suggests

#Academia #Academic #Academics #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Tech #Technology #Nazism #Fascism #Racism #Sexism #Fake #Empathy #Chatbot @ai