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
🔴 🔭 **Astronomy photographer of the year 2024 – winners and finalists**
"_The winners of Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual competition have been announced._"
🔴 💻 **What Computers Can’t Do**
"_Computers can of course write poems; they can associate, and construct images gleaned from all the world’s literature, but they will never act like a little boy who began reading books when he was very young and imagined himself growing up to become an explorer._"
🔗 **https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/september/what-computers-can-t-do**
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🔴 🇺🇸 **A Majority of Americans Can’t Recall Most First Amendment Rights**
"_Asked what specific rights are guaranteed by the First Amendment, nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) name freedom of speech. The other four rights are recalled by far fewer people: the second most-often cited, freedom of religion, is named by just 39%_"
🔗 **https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/most-americans-cant-recall-most-first-amendment-rights/**
#Civics #Education #Judiciary #Legal #Politics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
🔴 **Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas**
"_That we infer the Native American component in Ancient Rapanui to be most closely related to Pacific Coast South Americans and not North Americans or populations east of the Andes further substantiates trans-Pacific contacts between Polynesians and Native Americans._"
Moreno-Mayar, J.V., Sousa da Mota, B., Higham, T. et al. Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas. Nature 633, 389–397 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07881-4
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Ancient #DNA #Anthropology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genomics #PopulationGenetics #Genetics #Science #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology @archaeodons @science
🔴 **How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans**
"_There’s a long tradition of casting the Normans as the bad guys of British history – powerful and impressive, maybe, but not sympathetic. Most of us like to identify with the underdog, and in British history that usually means the non-Norman._"
🔗 **https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/how-rescue-reputation-nasty-normans**
#Britian #British #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **The paradox of class**
"_How Low-Status Languages Become Elite Symbols in Foreign Lands_"
🔴 🗺️ **Babylonian Map of the World: The oldest known map of the ancient world**
"_This tablet, which depicts how Babylonians perceived the world thousands of years ago, is peppered with details that offer insight into an earlier time. For example, the ancient world is shown as a singular disc, which is encircled by a ring of water called the Bitter River. At the world's center sits the Euphrates River and the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon._"
#Ancient #Map #Maps #Cartography #Archaeology #Arcaheodons @archaeodons
🔴 🎥 **AI Struggles to Solve Moravec's Paradox**
"_Simple everyday tasks that humans find incredibly easy can flummox the most advanced robots, according to Moravec’s paradox. But that may soon change._"
#Video length: one minute
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Found this book while packing. Unsubtly nudging #English speakers who want to learn #German to learn English seems extremely on point. #multilingual #grammar
🔴 🎥 **The Revenge of Analog: For Those Who Are Sick of the Digital World**
"_Humans are analogue! We're literally sick of the digital world engulfing us. People are yearning for real things and authenticty. IMPOSSIBLE is sensuous and inspiring film about the revenge of analog._"
#Video length: one hour and thirty eight minutes.
🔴 📚 🌍 **Visualized: Which Countries Publish the Most Books in Each Region?**
"_This graphic visualizes the number of books published by the number of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN, a unique product identifier for cataloging and tracking book sales) registered in 2022 for the top countries in each global region._"
🔗 **https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-which-countries-publish-the-most-books-in-each-region/**
#Data #DataViz #Publishing #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 📚 🎥 **Hugh of Fouilloy and William of Conches’ De Natura Avium**
"_Are you interested in old books? Written and compiled in the late 12th century, this luxury manuscript compiles several texts about the natural world, including from natural philosopher and medieval scientist William of Conches._"
#Video length: seven minutes and thirty one seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/7dmVcDXM7vk**
#History #OldBook #OldBooks #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🔬 🎥 **The Revolutionary Compound Microscope**
"_Get a close-up look at a French gilt-bronze compound microscope, a technological wonder of the18th century, with conservator Arlen Heginbotham._"
#Video length: five minutes and six seconds.
🔴 🇪🇸 **Tracing social disruptions over time using radiocarbon datasets: Copper and Early Bronze Ages in Southeast Iberia**
"_Our statistical analysis indicates that most probably the changes in funerary rituals in southeast Iberia were fast. It also implies that the local populations had dropped in numbers before 2200 cal BCE, so that the presence of ‘Steppe ancestry’ ca. 2200–2000 cal BCE could be the result of their admixture with neighbouring peoples._"
Micó, R. et al. (2024) 'Tracing social disruptions over time using radiocarbon datasets: Copper and Early Bronze Ages in Southeast Iberia,' Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, p. 104692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104692.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #CopperAge #BronzeAge #Demography #Ancestry #Spain #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons
🔴 📚 🎥 **Trying To Make £10,000 In A Week Selling Old Books**
#Video length: twenty five minutes and forty nine seconds.
🔴 **GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation**
"_Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing. The resulting enhanced potential for malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base, particularly in politically divisive domains, is a growing concern._"
Haider, J., Söderström, K. R., Ekström, B., & Rödl, M. (2024). GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-156
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Essay #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Misinformation #Disinformation #Academia #Academic #Academics
🔴 🎙️ **Episode 324: The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest**
"_In this week’s episode, hear the tale of the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest, and understand why it such a monumentally important event in human history._"
🔗 **https://halfarsedhistory.net/2024/09/08/episode-324-the-battle-of-the-teutoburg-forest/**
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodon #Histodons #Rome #Imperium @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 **'Absolutely outstanding' 12-century picture stone unearthed in Germany likely depicts bishop who brought Christianity to region**
"_The newfound carving may depict Otto of Bamberg (lived 1060 to 1139), a bishop who served royalty and a missionary who sought to convert people in Pomerania, which is now part of Germany and Poland._"
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Christianity #Religion #Germany #Poland #Europe @archaeodons
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
