Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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🔴 **My family and other Nazis**
"_Large parts of Austrian society still felt strong ties to national socialism, an aggressive Greater German ideology that rejected the notion of Austria as a separate country with its own history and mentality, and cultivated a deeply rooted antisemitism and anti-Slavic sentiment. My family, like many others, held on to their belief in Hitler and the Third Reich until they died._"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/23/my-family-and-other-nazis
#WWII #WW2 #Nazism #Germany #Austria #Europe #Hitler #LongReads #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Climate change does not affect all areas of the globe uniformly**
"_In 2023, the global average temperature anomaly was 0.6°C above the 1991–2020 average. However, these anomalies vary by region. In countries such as Syria and Turkey, the average annual surface air temperature in 2023 was around 1.2°C above the 1991–2020 average, compared to approximately 0.3°C in Australia._"
#Data #DataViz #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @climatechange
🔴 🎥 **There Is No Escaping Shakespeare. The New York Times**
#Video length: three minutes and fifty one seconds.
🔴 **Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel**
"_Typological and radiocarbon dating indicate an Early Pottery Neolithic occupation and evidence for continuity of subsistence and economic strategies with both earlier and later Neolithic cultures. The results indicate the resilience of coastal communities in the face of significant climatic uncertainty and contribute to understanding human responses to environmental change._"
Nickelsberg R, Levy TE, Shahack-Gross R, et al. Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel. Antiquity. 2024;98(398):343-362. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.32
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Neolithic #ClimateChange #Environment #History #Israel #Levant #MiddleEast #Asia @archaeodons @anthropology
🔴 **Data Vis Dispatch, July 23**
"_Clean cut to clean energy, where Brazil is leading among G20 countries. Across the world, most new power plants in 2023 will be for renewable sources, and there’s a good chance that geothermal energy will grow in the United States..._"
🔴 **Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths**
"_One example of an inaccuracy that has simply become established “history” is the very word Colosseum. In ancient Rome, it referred not to the stadium but to the enormous statue of Nero next to it. The Romans called the statue the Colossus and the stadium the Amphitheatrum Flavium. When the statue was destroyed, explains Mariotti, the nickname for the statue moved to the amphitheatre. This has now become a cultural norm, he adds, and going with it simply saves time._"
#Myths #Television #TV #Film #Cinema #Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **Capitalization in the constitution?**
"_It appears to me most of the nouns, if not all, are capitalized. For example, in the preamble, I only find "defence" is not capitalized, all the other nouns are capitalized._"
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=65117
#Language #Linguistics #Orthography #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Constitution @linguistics
#Image attribution: IonlyPlayz, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_map_of_the_USA_~_Rivers_and_Lakes.png
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This is an incredible story and had I been born in a different generation might have been my story as an academic. I'm so grateful to the women that came before me in academia, allowing me to be able to have both a family and my academic career. Congratulations Dr Fowler, so very overdue and so very well deserved. https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/22/physicist-rosemary-fowler-honoured-doctorate-75-years-after-discovery
@lauren For some ignorance is bliss.
🔴 **AI ‘deepfake’ faces detected using astronomy methods**
"_Analysing reflections of light in the eyes can help to determine an image’s authenticity._"
🔴 **Books That Shook the Business World: An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus**
"_The core thesis was that any improvements in food production would quickly be overwhelmed by population growth. Advances made today would just increase the population tomorrow, meaning more mouths to feed. Since the amount of agricultural land was finite, population growth would inevitably drag most people back to bare subsistence level. Humanity was thus caught in an eternal trap._"
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Demography @bookstodon
🔴 **‘Dark oxygen’ in depths of Pacific Ocean could force rethink about origins of life**
"_It had been thought that only living things such as plants and algae were capable of producing oxygen via photosynthesis – which requires sunlight._
_But four kilometres (2.5 miles) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, where no sunlight can reach, small mineral deposits called polymetallic nodules have been recorded making so-called dark oxygen for the first time._"
🔴 🇮🇸 🎥 **How Similar Are Old Norse and Icelandic? A Reading with Dr. Jesse Byock**
"_In this clip our guest Dr. Jesse Byock of U.C.L.A. and the University of Iceland reads a passage from the Saga of the Greenlanders to highlight the similarities between Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, and modern Icelandic._"
#Video length: two minutes and eleven seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD_OU_HXIWw
#Iceland #Icelandic #OldNorse #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
🔴 **‘Ex-Pagan Pagans’? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration**
"_I argue that, similar to Philo’s proselyte inclusion strategy, Paul incorporates Gentiles-in-Christ into ethnic Israel. As Abraham’s ‘offspring’, Paul suggests that his addressees not only gain membership in Israel’s covenant on account of Israel’s messiah, but that they also acquire a new ethnic identity despite that their prior identities as ‘the Gentiles’ are not erased._"
McDonald, D. N. (2022). ‘Ex-Pagan Pagans’? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 45(1), 23-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064X221082363
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Bible #NewTestament #Religion #Christianity #Pagans #Academia #Academic #Academic @religion
@natureworks I do not remember seeing such a sketch; however, it sounds like something that Dom Jolly might have done in his series _Trigger Happy TV_.
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We have no experience of countries climbing from very low birth rates back up to replacement-level fertility, so we can’t say how that might be accomplished (or even if it’s a good idea to try).
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/there-is-very-little-evidence-base-for-reversing-low-fertility-rates/
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How can we train people in the art of learning to read scholarly research like a scientist?
Fascinated by this project that studied how biologists read papers, from undergrads to faculty, and why undergrads get so lost on things that experienced researchers find fast/easy.
More experienced readers focused on the data. More junior ones focused on the narrative.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21548455.2022.2078010
🔴 **Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics**
"_Conservative white Christians use apocalypse to articulate their experience as God’s chosen but persecuted people in a diversely populated cosmos, wherein their political foes are the enemies of God._"
Douglas, Christopher. 2022. "Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics" Religions 13, no. 1: 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010021
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Apocalypse #ChristianRight #Bible #Theodicy #Religion #Literature #Nationalism #Politics #Academia #Academic #Academic #Academics @religion
Do you think there is any veracity to his claims?
🔴 **Language co-creation**
"_Just like Romance languages evolved out of Latin, which had been the language spoken in the European capture areas, so did Latin evolve out of the languages spoken in Latium, the area around Rome._"
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
