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<strong>Agropastoral and dietary practices of the northern Levant facing Late Holocene climate and environmental change: Isotopic analysis of plants, animals and humans from Bronze to Iron Age Tell Tweini</strong>

"_In view of the known critical factors influencing Bronze and Iron Age agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean region, such as the global climate fluctuations at the end of the Early and Late Bronze Age or the collapse of the socio-economic system in connection with migrations, at least in part of a warlike nature, which are described as the invasion of the "Sea Peoples", agricultural production at Tell Tweini proves to be comparatively resilient. Thus, despite the destruction of Tell Tweini in the first quarter of the 12th century BC, a revival of urban life and trading systems in the 11th century BC and continuing into the Iron Age II is evident._"

Fuller BT, Riehl S, Linseele V, Marinova E, De Cupere B, et al. (2024) Agropastoral and dietary practices of the northern Levant facing Late Holocene climate and environmental change: Isotopic analysis of plants, animals and humans from Bronze to Iron Age Tell Tweini. PLOS ONE 19(6): e0301775. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301775

#OpenAccess #OA #PeerReview #Research #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Levant #Asia #BronzeAge #IronAge #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons

<Strong>Light at Night</strong>

"_In the 1300s, one million units of lighting — a lumen-hour — would have cost around £40,800 in 2000 prices. By 2006, this had fallen to £2.90. That is a 14,000-fold decline._"

Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie (2023) - "Light at Night". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/light-at-night' [Online Resource].

#Data #DataViz

<strong>The potential of lacustrine sedimentary ancient DNA for revealing human postglacial recolonization patterns in northern Sweden – a review</strong>

"_The questions of who the first postglacial peoples, or pioneers, were and where they came from therefore remain unanswered. Previous palaeogenomic analyses from remains from adjacent regions have suggested that two main routes into Sweden could have been taken by the pioneers, one from the SW through modern-day Denmark and Norway, and one from the east via Finland. However, no direct genetic evidence from the pioneers of northern Sweden exists._"

Johnson, E., Regnéll, C., Heintzman, P.D. and Linderholm, A. (2024), The potential of lacustrine sedimentary ancient DNA for revealing human postglacial recolonization patterns in northern Sweden – a review. Boreas. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12660

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Research #Review #Article #Science #STEM #Ancient #DNA #Sweden #Europe @science

<strong>Four tips to avoid being bamboozled by political statistics and data</strong>

_With a plethora of elections around the world in 2024, voters considering their options can expect to be presented with all kinds of numbers and statistics aimed at giving credibility to various claims from various parties. But data, graphs, percentages and surveys can be misleading or manipulated._

_So here are four things to remember if you’re trying to navigate what’s behind the numerical spin – or what Mark Twain (and others) referred to as “lies, damned lies and statistics”._

https://theconversation.com/four-tips-to-avoid-being-bamboozled-by-political-statistics-and-data-231424

#Tip #Tips #Economics #Statistics #Data #Politics @economics

<strong>How Queen Victoria’s Disabled Grandson Led Europe Into WW1 | The Crippled Kaiser</strong>

"_At the end of the 19th century, much of Europe's royalty was one big dysfunctional family. Discover how this slowly dissolving family partially led to the conflict that would consume and reshape Europe._"

#Video length: forty six minutes and fifty three seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzWFeUIEuH0

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Documentary #19th #C19th #Europe #WW1 @histodon @histodons

<strong>Just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain – study</strong>

"_Mental maps may be created and activated when you just think about the route, researchers say._"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-usa-b2561430.html

#News #Science #Research #Brain #Maps #MIT @science

<strong>A glass that builds and heals itself</strong>

"_...a team of researchers discovered that a certain peptide will develop unusual bonds with water, allowing it to form into a glass-like structure. What’s more, the unique properties of this peptide glass allow it to self heal if cracked, and act as a strong adhesive between water-loving surfaces._"

#Video length: three minutes and thirty four seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SaghcgK4s

#Science #MaterialScience #Glass @science

<strong>ChatGPT is bullshit</strong>

"_We will argue that even if ChatGPT is not, itself, a hard bullshitter, it is nonetheless a bullshit machine. The bullshitter is the person using it, since they (i) don’t care about the truth of what it says, (ii) want the reader to believe what the application outputs._"

Hicks, M.T., Humphries, J. & Slater, J. ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics Inf Technol 26, 38 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Ethics #Information #Technology #Tech #IT #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LLMS #LLM #ChatGPT #Bullshit #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai

<strong>Did the Condemnation of 1277 Create Modern Science?</strong>

"_The purpose of the Condemnation of 1277 was to stomp out any thought not strictly in accord with Church doctrine, including its various miracles such as the transformation in the Eucharist. To the extent that this condemnation was actually followed, it would have led to complete intellectual stagnation._"

https://seileronscience.substack.com/p/did-the-condemnation-of-1277-create

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Christianity #Church @histodon @histodons @science

<strong>Charity to offer books at food banks across the UK</strong>

"_Three per cent of people in the UK currently use food banks, and more than one in 12 UK children do not have a single book of their own._"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/11/charity-to-offer-books-at-food-banks-across-the-uk

#News #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Charity #FoodBanks #Poverty #UnitedKingdom #UK #Britain #GB @bookstodon

<strong>Which countries have fertility rates above or below the “replacement level”?</strong>

"_Fertility rates — which measure the average number of children per woman — have been falling worldwide. Since 1950, global fertility rates have halved, from almost 5 children per woman to 2.3._

_As a result, global population growth has slowed dramatically, and many countries' populations are expected to decline by the end of the century._"

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/which-countries-have-fertility-rates-above-or-below-the-replacement-level

#Data #DataViz #Population #Fertility

<strong>Archaeologists have traced the origin of the horse and why humans ride them</strong>

"_Researchers believe the very earliest horse ancestors arose in North America, then sauntered across the Bering Strait into Asia around a million years ago. They flourished in Asia, but went extinct in the Americas._"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/horse-origin-america-mongolia-archaeology-b2559694.html

#Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Horses @science @archaeodons

🇫🇮 <strong>The North Engendered: Mythologized Histories, Gender and the Finnish Perspective on the Imagined Viking-Nordic Ideal</strong>

"_We suggest that the image of “the Viking woman” as a symbol of a tradition of gender equality is of high importance to how national identities are formed in the Nordic countries. She represents an idea of the romantic North, and an idealized, explicitly or implicitly, white identity. How the “Viking woman” is envisioned by Nordic societies relates to femonationalist political narratives, and race and racialization in the present day._"

Rosenström S. & Žiačková B. 2022. The North Engendered: Mythologized Histories, Gender and the Finnish Perspective on the Imagined Viking-Nordic Ideal. In: Hoegaerts, J et al (eds.), Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-17-4

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Ethnicity #History #Psychology #Linguistics #Sociology #Whiteness #Feminism #Vikings #Finland #Nordic #Scandinavia #Europe @psychology @linguistics @sociology

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