Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph 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.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ 🎥 **How bad maps win elections - Gerrymandering explained**
"_Why does the USA draw district maps with absolutely bonkers shapes? And how do squiggly districts help the wrong politicians win elections? And have we been pronouncing "Gerrymandering" wrong for 200 years?_"
#Video length: eleven minutes and thrity nine seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg**
#Map #Maps #Cartography #Election #Elections #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates
🔴 🏴 🇮🇷 **Amazing’ Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland, analysis finds**
"_It is a star object of the Galloway Hoard, the richest collection of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland, buried in AD900 and unearthed in a field in Scotland. Now a lidded silver vessel has been identified as being of west Asian origin, transported halfway around the world more than 1,000 years ago._"
#News #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Scotland #Iran @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 🎥 **How To Get The Most Out Academic Reading - The SQ3R Method For Beginners**
"_Another rapid-fire reading advice video on how to quickly maximize your understanding of academic and journal articles/papers while maximizing retention using the SQ3R reading method, alongside a few pointers on the challenges of dealing with technical/research-based reading._"
#Video length: eleve minutes and twenty one seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/UKFlWdVXYIg**
#Read #Reading #Research #Journals #Articles #Papers #Academia #Academic #Academics
🔴 🇺🇸 **Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?**
"_Ultimately, a lack of conviction in the Confederate cause, unwilling compatriots, and fear of battle influenced his decision to withdraw from the military._"
Stoyack, Aaron. "Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/mark-twain-civil-war-confederate/ (accessed August 30, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Confederacy #MarkTwain @histodon @histodons
🔴 **‘He was in mystic delirium’: was this hermit mathematician a forgotten genius whose ideas could transform AI – or a lonely madman?**
"_The hermit’s name was Alexander Grothendieck. Born in 1928, he arrived in France from Germany as a refugee in 1939, and went on to revolutionise postwar mathematics as Einstein had physics a generation earlier. Moving beyond distinct disciplines such as geometry, algebra and topology, he worked in pursuit of a deeper, universal language to unify them all. At the heart of his work was a new conception of space, liberating it from the Euclidean tyranny of fixed points and bringing it into the 20th-century universe of relativity and probability. The flood of concepts and tools he introduced in the 1950s and 60s awed his peers._"
#Maths #Mathematics #Math #Philosophy #France #Europe
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI @philosophy @ai
🔴 📚 **Can you judge the tech bros by their bookshelves?**
"_He locates their supposedly original, radical thinking in the ideas of Heidegger and Rand, the new age Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and American traditions, from the tent revival to predestination._"
🔗 **https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/31/tech-bosses-bookshelves-reading-list**
#Opinion #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #SiliconValley #Tech #Technology #TechBros #STEM @bookstodon
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Fires blaze across the Amazon Rainforest in #Brazil today 🔥🇧🇷
Heat from fires is highlighted in red. Smoke is gray.
See more imagery here: https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=-10.7181,-53.2302,7z/date=2024-08-31,20:00/overlays=heat
🔴 **False memories revealing mathematical reasoning**
_“We have shown that when solving specific problems, participants have the illusion of having read sentences that were never actually presented in the statements, but were linked to unconscious deductions made when reading the statements. They become confused in their minds with the sentences they actually read”_
🔗 **https://www.unige.ch/medias/en/2024/les-faux-souvenirs-revelateurs-du-raisonnement-mathematique**
#Maths #Mathematics #Math #Memory #Learning #Education #Psychology @psychology
🔴 🗺️ **Have Crown, Will Travel: The Circumnavigation of King Kalākaua**
"_King Kalākaua of Hawaii became the first monarch to circumnavigate the globe in 1881 with his 285-day trip which traversed over a dozen countries where he was received by many heads of state._"
🔗 **https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/08/have-crown-will-travel-the-circumnavigation-of-king-kalakaua/**
🔴 **The curious origins of four English expressions – including will-o’-the-wisp and against the grain**
"_The origins of English expressions are often obscure and require deep linguistic and documentary research to be explained. Being phrases, not single words, their intrinsic meanings can be reconstructed by studying old texts and their earliest use._"
#Linguistics #History #English #Langauge #Etymology #Idioms @linguistics
@Lazarou Any mention of the word jag reminds me of the expression 'two jags Prescott'.
🔴 🇪🇸 **Submerged bridge constructed at least 5600 years ago indicates early human arrival in Mallorca, Spain**
"_The exact reasons behind the construction of these structures in Genovesa Cave remain elusive. Nevertheless, the chronological constraints posed by the depth of the bridge, coupled with the similar depth at which POS and the coloration mark occur, support the idea of an early human presence on the island by 5600 years B.P. and potentially dating back as far as 6000 years ago._"
Onac, B.P., Polyak, V.J., Mitrovica, J.X. et al. Submerged bridge constructed at least 5600 years ago indicates early human arrival in Mallorca, Spain. Commun Earth Environ 5, 457 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01584-4
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #ClimateChange #Environment #Palaeoceanography #Mallorca #Spain #Academia #Academic #Academics
@historianess Even though we may not like it sometimes life is about 'taking the rough with the smooth'.
🔴 📖 **“The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present” by Allen James Fromherz**
"_Fromherz focuses on two main characteristics that have framed and formed the Gulf as a region: first, it was open to commerce, people and ideas and, second, that it mostly managed to wriggle out of the grip of larger empires. Both were very much functions of geography._"
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Topography of Wealth**
"_Los Angeles has 58 billionaires and 58,000 homeless people. In a city where destitution coexists with opulence, vast gaps in opportunity exist between neighborhoods. Let's use physical terrain as a metaphor to visualize income inequality across LA._"
🔴 🇺🇸 **How the South Became Republican**
"_Over the course of the 1952 campaign Eisenhower made three swings through the South, visiting every state except Mississippi. He cajoled audiences and slammed politics in the capital. At times, he courted controversy. When ‘Dixie’, a pro-Confederate song and relic of the Civil War, was played during a visit to South Carolina, Eisenhower commented: ‘I always stand up when they play that song’, drawing cheers from the crowd._"
🔗 **https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/how-south-became-republican**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Republicans #GOP #Eisenhower #TheSouth @histodon @histodons
@freemo Great news! Looking forward to see what the future holds. Thank you for all the work behind the scenes that has made this possible.
🔴 🇩🇪 **Germany’s richest people are indeed very, very rich**
"_It shows how negligible the already quite rich people are compared to the richest of the rich – not to mention how big the difference is compared to a German of average wealth. To put this even more in context: You would have to save €1 every second for the next 1117 years to become as rich as the richest person in Germany._"
🔗 **https://blog.datawrapper.de/germanys-richest-people-wealth/**
🔴 🎥 **Brownian Motion**
"_This motion proved that atoms exist._"
#Video length: one minute.
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph 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.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
