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🔴 🎥 **1935 Population Levels**

length: thirty eight seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=fyFbGG78VC

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🔴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 **A New Map Of Medieval London**

"_Deliciously detailed 13th century plan. And a Tudor one, too._"

londonist.substack.com/p/a-new

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🔴 **The Earliest Photo of the Man Who Discovered the First Dead Sea Scrolls?**

"_This 1953 photo shoot covers both the excavations at Qumran and the early work of sorting the fragments. I was surprised to see a photo of the “two shepherds” who are said to have been the first to find scrolls standing outside the entrance to Cave 1Q._"

brentnongbri.com/2024/07/19/th

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🔴 🎥 **Vikings didn't have tattoos**

"_The only medieval source to claim that Vikings had tattoos comes from the furthest edge of their culture's world, and the lack of any Old Norse word or description of tattoos makes it unlikely they were a common decoration._"

length: eleven minutes and thirty eight seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=hU-W9fDqS-

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🔴 **Earthquake at same time as eruption could have caused Pompeii deaths – study**

"_Archaeologists estimate that 15 to 20% of Pompeii’s population died in the eruption, mostly from thermal shock as a giant cloud of gases and ash covered the city._

_Volcanic ash then buried the Roman city, perfectly preserving the homes, public buildings, objects and even the people until its discovery in the late 16th century._"

theguardian.com/world/article/

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In Broken Britain, even the statistics don’t work

From the bone-jarring potholes to the human excrement regularly released into British rivers, the country’s creaking infrastructure is one of the most visceral manifestations of the past 15 years of stagnation. To these examples of the shabby neglect of the essential underpinnings of modern life, let me add another: our statistica

timharford.com/2024/07/in-brok

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Carl T. Bergstrom

Interesting results: people are more likely to believe fake news from a stranger.

This finding would be explained if people intuitively apply the three questions we suggest in our book to assess any claim:

1. Who is telling me this?
2. How do they know it?
3. What are they trying to sell me?

You know what your friends don't have a way of knowing (and you often know what they're trying to sell you.) With a stranger, these are harder questions to answer.

niemanlab.org/2024/07/youre-mo

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Kai Arzheimer

“If it’s worth doing it’s worth printing” #AcademicChattter
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial

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🔴 🎙️ **Aaron Alexander Zubia - The Political Thought of David Hume**

"_A conversation with Aaron Alexander Zubia about his recent book, "The Political Thought of David Hume: the Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination" (Notre Dame Press)._"

podomatic.com/podcasts/thepoli

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🔴 🇺🇸 **Musket balls from first major battle of revolutionary war found near Boston**

"_The latest evidence of that firefight is five musket balls dug up last year near the North Bridge site in the Minute Man national historical park in Concord. Early analysis of the balls – gray with sizes ranging from a pea to a marble – indicates colonial militia members fired them at British forces on 19 April 1775._"

theguardian.com/us-news/articl

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🔴 🎥 **This tiny solar-powered flyer weighs less than a paper plane**

"_...researchers have developed CoulombFly, a solar-powered MAV propelled by a new extremely efficient electro-static motor and powered by incredibly light solar panels._"

length: three minutes and three seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=bf7RjMUXom

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🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia In Colour Episode 3: Populate or Perish**

"_The government adopts the slogan "populate or perish" after World War II and immigration changes the face of Australia. This influx of labor and the diversification of the economy delivers increasing prosperity._"

length: forty seven minutes and thirty eight seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=d2hNF91Og5

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🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia In Colour Episode 2: Shifting Allegiances**

"_Sport and comedy offer some relief from the hunger and hopelessness of the Great Depression - at least until the war breaks out. Australia sends troops to Europe to fight beside Britain but when Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the nation turns to America for protection and pulls troops out of the Middle East._"

length: forty seven minutes and forty five seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=aytnob10oT

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🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia in Colour Episode 1: Outpost of the Empire**

"_Modern Australia was born on January 1, 1901, when six British colonies united. Agriculture and mining transformed the country. "Australia in Colour" is the history of Australia told through a unique collection of cinematic moments brought to life for the first time in color._"

length: forty nine minutes and fifty one seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=aWLHMh8ov9

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@jlou @bookstodon Thank you.

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Skulls in the Stars

Reminder for those discouraged as writers: when H.G. Wells submitted his second popular science article, his editor thought it was so incomprehensible that he summoned Wells to his office to personally yell at him.

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🔴 **Many plant names are offensive: botanists will vote on whether to change them**

"_One of the proposals aims to rename an estimated 218 species whose scientific names are based on the word caffra and various derivatives — which are ethnic slurs often used against Black people in southern Africa — and to replace it with derivatives of ‘afr’ to instead recognize Africa._"

doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-023

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🔴 🎙️ **Why Machines Learn: The Math Behind AI**

"_In this episode Autumn and Anil Ananthaswamy discuss the inspiration behind his book “Why Machines Learn” and the importance of understanding the math behind machine learning. He explains that the book aims to convey the beauty and essential concepts of machine learning through storytelling, history, sociology, and mathematics._"

zencastr.com/z/jgNd4-TS

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🔴 🎙️ **Can the climate survive AI’s thirst for energy? – podcast**

"_Artificial intelligence companies have lofty ambitions for what the technology could achieve, from curing diseases to eliminating poverty. But the energy required to power these innovations is threatening critical environmental targets._"

theguardian.com/science/audio/

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@jlou @bookstodon Thank you for the comment. At some point I will try to get around to having a look at the ; currently my list is rather long.

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