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🔴 🌡️ 🎥 **Summer heat record puts world on track for hottest year ever**

"_Scientists have confirmed that the summer in the northern Hemisphere has just broken global heat records for the second consecutive year. That means that 2024 is likely to be the hottest year ever recorded._"

#Video length: twenty two seconds.

🔗 **https://youtu.be/whhKGCKZDYY**

#Climate #ClimateChange #Science @science @climatechange

🔴 🇬🇧 **Who do Britons trust to tell the truth?**

"_Most Britons trust doctors, scientists, teachers and judges, but Reform UK voters have significantly less trust in most institutions_"

🔗 **https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/50459-who-do-britons-trust-to-tell-the-truth**

#Data #DataViz #Poll #UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #Trust #Truth

🔴 🎥 **An Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Explain the Universe**

"_Why would archaeologists care about a particle physics experiment hiding deep beneath the Apennine Mountains, seeking to answer one of the most fundamental mysteries of reality as we know it?_"

#Video length: thirty one minutes and fourteen seconds.

🔗 **https://youtu.be/o0A9M5wHBA4**

#Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons @science @archaeodons

🔴 📖 **From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond**

"_This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond._"

Bay, C., Avioz, M., and van Henten, J. W. (eds) (06 Jun. 2024). From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004693296 [Accessed 06 September 2024]

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (90)

🔴 **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._"

🔗 **https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/ancient-pirate-attack-may-have-prompted-hiding-of-silver-coin-stash-from-roman-times**

#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

🔴 **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.

🔴 🇺🇸 **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**

#Audio #Podcast #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Education

🔴 📚 🎥 **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._"

🔗 **https://theconversation.com/bookshops-are-bucking-the-high-street-trend-there-are-lots-of-reasons-why-237278**

#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Retail #Culture @bookstodon