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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.
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🔴 **Roman coin trove discovered on Mediterranean island may have been hidden during ancient pirate attack**
"_The silver coin discoveries date to the Roman Republic and are from the island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia._"
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Roman #Coins #Mediterranean @archaeodons
🔴 **Human perceptions of social robot deception behaviors: an exploratory analysis**
"_This study provides some of the first evidence for how people perceive and evaluate robot deception, especially three types of deception behaviors theorized in the technology ethics literature: External state deception (cues that intentionally misrepresent or omit details from the external world: e.g., lying), Hidden state deception (cues designed to conceal or obscure the presence of a capacity or internal state the robot possesses), and Superficial state deception (cues that suggest a robot has some capacity or internal state that it lacks)._"
Rosero A, Dula E, Kelly H, Malle BF and Phillips EK (2024) Human perceptions of social robot deception behaviors: an exploratory analysis. Front. Robot. AI 11:1409712. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2024.1409712
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Psychology #Deception #Robots #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
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Scientists Discover New Evidence That a Magma Ocean Once Covered the Moon
Scientists believe the Moon was created when a protoplanet impacted the early Earth, breaking off a large chunk of matter, and eventually formed a new body. This new body became the Moon we know through a cooling process over millions of years. During that time, scientists have long believed the surface was covered in an ocean of magma.
By Madeleine Muzdakis via @mymodernmet
🔴 **Romans’ siege wall in Masada may have been built in a fortnight, study finds**
"_The researchers estimate that the siege wall could have been completed by the 6,000-8,000 soldiers in less than two weeks, leaving them free to concentrate on building a ramp that ultimately breached the fortress._"
🔗 **https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/04/romans-siege-wall-masada-archaeology-israel**
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Israel #Levant #MiddleEast #Asia #Roman #Imperium #History #Histodon #Histodons @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
@Catelli Long form anything is better than what is presented currently.
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This looks like essential reading for any #media scholar.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media/paper
🔴 🇺🇸 **The most successful and influential Americans come from a surprisingly narrow range of ‘elite’ educational backgrounds**
"_We found that exceptional achievement is surprisingly strongly associated with “elite” education, especially obtaining a degree from Harvard, and the general public tends to underestimate the size of this effect._"
Wai, J., Anderson, S.M., Perina, K. et al. The most successful and influential Americans come from a surprisingly narrow range of ‘elite’ educational backgrounds. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 1129 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03547-8
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Education #Psychology #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
🔴 🎙️ **Math for English Majors with Ben Orlin**
"_They discuss the different skill sets required for math and creativity, the organization of math education, and the accessibility of math for different audiences. Ben emphasizes the importance of quantification and the power of math in various fields._"
🔗 **https://www.breakingmath.io/podcast/math-for-english-majors-with-ben-orlin**
🔴 📚 🎥 **Why are philosophy books so boring and challenging?**
#Video length: fifty three seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/V25l2SywuuM**
#Read #Reading #Philosophy #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Education @philosophy @bookstodon
🔴 **François de Foix de Candalle: Euclidean authorship in the sixteenth century**
"_Despite Foix’s stated intention to ‘restore’ the text he – ironically – enjoyed an unusual success as a Euclidean author: few other writers, if any, in his or the succeeding century inserted into Euclid’s Elements new material of such bulk and longevity._"
Wardhaugh, B. (2024) ‘François de Foix de Candalle: Euclidean authorship in the sixteenth century’, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, pp. 1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024.2384819.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #C16th #16thCentury #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Geometry #Euclid #HistSci #Academia #Academic #Academics
🔴 📖 **John Eldevik on Reading Prester John**
"_Much of the interest in Prester John appears to have been driven by apocalyptic theology and ideas about the Crusades, the culmination of history, and Christianity’s conflict with Islam. As for where this thing originated, one of the things I do is show how it’s really a composite text that was woven together out of several pre-existing traditions about this priest-king John, the emperor Manuel, and Christian lands in Asia._"
🔗 **https://www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2024/09/02/john-eldevik-on-reading-prester-john/**
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Medieval #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 📚 **Bookshops are bucking the high street trend. There are lots of reasons why**
"_The booksellers who work in these spaces have to contend with low salaries, small margins, big competition from discounting in supermarkets and on Amazon, as well as high rents and rates. But despite all this they demonstrate a remarkable tenacity in terms of commitment to their customers. Often, they also excel at using the opportunities from social media to market their shops more widely._"
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Retail #Culture @bookstodon
🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ 🎥 **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
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.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
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Joined Nov 2022
