Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts, and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Would Americans choose communism or fascism?
"American registered voters who support Kamala Harris in the 2024 election are more likely to choose communism (43%) than fascism (11%), while Americans who support Donald Trump are more likely to choose fascism (28%) than communism (16%)."
https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/50737-would-americans-choose-communism-or-fascism
#Data #DataViz #Politics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Communism #Fascism
The future under Amazon’s reign | The World According to Amazon (2020)
"This investigation tunnels into the workings of the company and its philosophy through insider interviews with business owners, employees and a former founding executive, and seeks to reveal the sky-high ambitions of the company run by the world’s first centi-billionaire."
#Video length: one hour and seventeen minutes.
Why Economists Hate Trump's Tariff Plan
"He wants to put across-the-board 60% tariffs on everything from China and 10%-20% on everything else from the rest of the world. It’s an extreme trade policy that he wants to use to generate revenue to cut taxes. But how would they work?"
#Video length: eight minutes and seventeen seconds.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #WSJ #Trump #Economics #Tariffs #Business @economics
Three letters, one number, a knife and a stone bridge: how a graffitied equation changed mathematical history
"Yet Hamilton’s revelation changed the way mathematicians represent information. And this, in turn, made myriad technical applications simpler – from calculating forces when designing a bridge, an MRI machine or a wind turbine, to programming search engines and orienting a rover on Mars."
#HistSci #Science #Maths #Mathematics #Math #History #Ireland @science
The Land at the End of the Empire: The Roman Eastern Border in Mesopotamia
"The impressive archaeological remains of the city — enclosed by massive walls and spatially organized by insulae (habitation blocks) — have yielded records of a multi-ethnic and religious settlement, with rich civilian houses flanked by a military quarter with baths and a small amphitheater, with temples and shrines dedicated to local deities, but also a synagogue and a church."
https://anetoday.org/roman-eastern-border-mesopotamia/
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Rome #Romans #Empire #Mesopotamia #Asia #Europe @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
X-ray evidence of Black maths scholar portrait reveals snubbed genius
"It has long been mistaken for a satirical painting that mocks its Black subject for having the temerity to pretend to be a Georgian gentleman and scholar. But it is now thought to have been commissioned in 1760 by Williams himself to immortalise his brilliance as a trailblazing astronomer who, the clues in the painting suggest, successfully managed to compute and witness the trajectory of Halley’s comet over Jamaica in 1759."
#Art #Slavery #Race #Science #Astronomy #Maths #Mathematics #Math #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @science
How Streaming Elevated (and Ruined) Documentaries: A Statistical Analysis
"It's not as if Netflix conjured demand out of thin air—they just ruthlessly optimized the artform until it reached its logical conclusion—which is a four- to eight-part docuseries about a celebrity, cult, sports star, serial killer, or all of the above. And you know why they keep making them? Because we watch them (didn't think about it that way, did you?)."
https://open.substack.com/pub/statsignificant/p/how-streaming-elevated-and-ruined
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Analysis #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Online #Streaming #Documentary
Every Other Video About Color is Wrong
"This video is going to explore deeper than all those other videos. It’s going to explain that color is the result of light interacting with electrons … most of the time."
#Video length: twenty one minutes and thirty three seconds.
Inside a British lithium mine: A Cornish white gold rush?
At the moment, the UK is completely dependent on imports, but with some of the richest lithium deposits in Europe along the Cornish coast - the government is keen to change that. It has upgraded one lithium mine in Cornwall to a "project of national significance".
#Video length: three minutes and forty one seconds.
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Cornwall #Europe #EV #Transport
Genetic analysis of a Yayoi individual from the Doigahama site provides insights into the origins of immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago
"One of the important findings of this study is that, in all analyses, among modern populations, the Korean population exhibited more genetic similarity to the Doigahama Yayoi individual than any other East Asian populations, except for the Japanese. This suggests that immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago during the Yayoi period primarily originated from the Korean Peninsula."
Kim, J., Mizuno, F., Matsushita, T. et al. Genetic analysis of a Yayoi individual from the Doigahama site provides insights into the origins of immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago. J Hum Genet (2024). https://www.nature.com/articles/s10038-024-01295-w.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Biology #Anthropology #Population #Genetics #Japan #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
On average, Americans spend about the same amount of money on restaurants and cafes as on food at home
"On average, Americans spend about the same amount on food consumed at home as they did in the 1950s. But they spend a lot more in restaurants, cafes, and at work."
#Data #DataViz #Food #Prices #Culture #USA #US #UnitedStates
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Swiss chemist Nicolas Théodore de Saussure was born #OTD in 1767.
His book Recherches chimiques sur la Végétation (1804) was the first summation of the fundamental process of photosynthesis and a major contribution to the understanding of plant physiology. In contrast to some of his predecessors in the field of photosynthesis research, Saussure based his conclusions on extensive quantitative data that he had collected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Th%C3%A9odore_de_Saussure
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No shit “this decline [in the capability of LLMs to perform logical reasoning through multiple clauses] is due to the fact that current LLMs are not capable of genuine logical reasoning; instead, they attempt to replicate the reasoning steps observed in their training data.”
Paper from Apple engineers showing that genAI models don’t actually understand what they read but just regurgitate what they’ve seen like a puppy wanting to please its owner:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229
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"In total, there have been as many category 4 or 5 Atlantic hurricanes hit the US since 2017 as there have been in the prior 57 years."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/hurricane-milton-strength-intensity-explainer
@brie @histodons @science @histodon
I suppose the veracity of that claim will come out when the second part of the genetic investigation is made public.
@aral I am not sure which authority would have to give permission for such a structure to be built.
DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville
"On Thursday, after two decades of DNA testing and research, the forensic medical expert José Antonio Lorente said the incomplete set of remains in Seville Cathedral were indeed those of Columbus."
#History #Histodon #Histodons #DNA #Genetics #Science #Seville #Spain #Europe #Colonialism @science @histodon @histodons
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.
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