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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The hidden role of air pollution in cognitive decline
"PM2.5 are fine airborne particles small enough to enter the lungs and even the bloodstream, posing significant health risks. Long-term exposure has been linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, resulting in air pollution being listed as one of the modifiable risk factors in the recent report of the Lancet commision on dementia prevention, intervention and care. However, the mechanisms through which PM2.5 affects cognitive function remain poorly understood."
https://www.uni.lu/lcsb-en/news/hidden-role-of-air-pollution-in-cognitive-decline/
I am considering starting a blog where I will post reviews of books that I have read. Do you think the endeavour is advisable? If the answer to that question is yes, what platform do you think is the best to use?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #AmReading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Thad Zajdowicz from Altadena, California, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Book_review_(12213308404).jpg
@ppappas @bookstodon Thank you for the recommendation.
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No low-fertility country has ever raised its fertility rate as much as Somalia’s has fallen in the last quarter century.
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/pronatalisms-tough-math/
@freezenet Orwellian.
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The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope is assembling the largest 3D map of the universe ever made.
The first section is now complete. Take a look at what happens when you zoom in...
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Zoom_into_the_first_page_of_ESA_Euclid_s_great_cosmic_atlas #space #science #astronomy #nature
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CACKLING FARTS. Eggs. CANT.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang @histodons
@samlitzinger In for a penny, in for a pound.
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In the 90s, we went on the Internet in an attempt to escape the real world. Nowadays we go to the real world in an attempt to escape the Internet.
@beecycling @bookstodon Would you recommend it to others?
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Inversions by Iain M Banks. Part of the Culture series.
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@ppappas @bookstodon Thank you for commenting. I have a read a quick synopsis of the book, what are your intial thoughts?
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@bibliolater @bookstodon The Warmth of Other Suns ~ Isabel Wilkerson
#Question: what book(s) are you reading this Sunday?
#AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Return to utopia? Vision and practice of the Japanese right at Yasukuni shrine
"As argued elsewhere, right-wing ideologies are constructed on a distinctive ontology and explanations for political phenomena.[67] In Japan, this has emerged around the issue of war-history: exonerating Japanese colonial history is not only a matter of national pride but considered to be central to political power. This emerged in the 1980s in response to issues such as history textbooks, territorial disputes, and re-writing the constitution, and carries on today. [68] It was around this time that the Yasukuni shrine also reemerged as the focal point for such reactionary historical revision in popular consciousness."
Narita, K. (2024) ‘Return to utopia? Vision and practice of the Japanese right at Yasukuni shrine’, Journal of Political Ideologies, pp. 1–22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2024.2418189.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Japan #Imperialism #Empire #Colonisation #Politics #PoliticalScience #RightWing #History #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
Frankish Encounters with Paganism (with Prof. Alex Sager)
"Prof. Alex Sager (University of Georgia) returns to talk about Frankish records of Germanic paganism and the conversion."
#Video length: one hour and forty six minutes.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Religion #Christianity #Paganism #Europe @religion @histodon @histodons
A pound of raisins
"The practice of senior students extracting gifts or tribute from new students was common in medieval universities across Europe. The ‘bejaunia’ was a lavish feast paid for by the new student as part of their initiation into university life. It is thought that the St Andrews Raisin traditions may have developed from these roots."
https://special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/10/18/a-pound-of-raisins/
@MessagingMatters You are right. The article goes into further detail.
How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero
"To use zero in calculations, mathematicians had to establish all sorts of rules. You can’t divide any other number by zero, but you can divide zero by any other number. A nonzero number to the power of zero gives you one; zero to a power of a nonzero number gives you zero, but zero to a power of zero gives you a calculator error — and a headache."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-human-brain-contends-with-the-strangeness-of-zero-20241018/
#Maths #Mathematics #Math #Biology #Science #Cognition #Neuroscience @science @biology
Handwriting Changes Everything
#Video length: twelve minutes.
Not a bot, just a bloke in his fifties who reads occasionally.
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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