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🔴 📖 Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction
"The earliest surviving depiction of the four cardinal directions is found in the Gasur Map, a clay tablet from the third millennium BCE discovered in modern-day Iraq. It refers not to astronomical observations but meteorological ones: the four winds."
#BookReview #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #History #Culture #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting the most reclusive masters of the terra incognita North Sentinel Island
"In terms of similarities, genomic studies reveal that the ancestors of the Asian clade migrated from Africa through India, entering Australia around 48,000 years ago (Sasikumar, 2023). Subsequent sub-clades, such as M31, migrated to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands around 37,000 years ago (Palanichamy et al., 2006; Barik et al., 2008), showing genetic affinity with the Burmese populace (Sasikumar, 2023)."
Paul, S., Justin, A. & Chatterjee, S. Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting the most reclusive masters of the terra incognita North Sentinel Island. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 1512 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03994-3
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Athropology #NorthSentinelIsland #Sentinelese #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology
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The projected average #compensation of CEOs at the 350 largest publicly owned US companies was $25.2 million. Meanwhile, the CEO-to-worker pay ratio was approximately 344-to-1, chart @bethkowitt https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-opinion-how-big-business-lost-americans-trust
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I updated my arXiv article "How much string to string a cardioid?" (again) https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15101. It now has a new result. For a "nice" number (like a prime number) of points n in a circle of radius r (and any multiplicative factor a), the amount of string required is approximately 4nr/π! For instance, the examples above have n=83 and, say, r=5 cm. The sum of the lengths of the line segments is exactly 10cot(π/166)=528.331 cm. The approximation formula gives 4*83*5/π=528.394 cm. (There's a slightly more complicated approximation formula that works for any n.)
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Free #ebooks for a limited time. Get in!!
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-ten-free-ebooks-for-getting-free
@zleap @science @climatechange
Predictions are difficult but what is certain is that the future holds uncertainty.
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An example of Eric's work on using the tools of behavioural experiments to understand large language models can be found here:
@zleap @science @climatechange
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🔴 📖 Plutarch's Science of Natural Problems
"By providing a thorough study of and commentary on this generally neglected text, written by one of the most influential and prolific writers from Antiquity, this book contributes to our better understanding of Plutarch’s natural scientific programme and the condition and role of ancient natural science in the Roman Imperial Era in general."
Meeusen, M. (2017) Plutarch’s Science of Natural Problems. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pwtcsk.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Classics #Ancient #Antiquity #Greek #Philosophy #HistSci #History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @philosophy @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (92)
🔴 🌡️ 🎥 How heatwaves impact our lives
"The thermal load is particularly high in cities. The record summer of 2003 in Paris, for example, led to apocalyptic conditions. According to climate experts, temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius cannot be ruled out for the French capital in the future."
#Video length: forty two minutes and twenty nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/JKEJ9p9YVY8
#Documentry #DWDocumentary #DWDocs #Climate #ClimateChange #Heatwaves #Science @science @climatechange
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"Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste."
Letter 8 - On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
~Friedrich Schiller
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SO GOOD. European alternatives for nearly all Amazon, Google, Microsoft products along with alts to Github, Slack, etc. now we need to create a North American version of this. thank you, @vortex! https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to
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A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
🔴 📖 Radical struggles and revolution: The book unearthing the subversive history of Paradise Lost
"Milton may personify the pale, male and stale hegemony of the English poetic tradition, but the story of his poem is one of new ways of thinking, of new societies being forged, of old orders being overturned – and it begins at the moment of England’s own revolution, with the overthrow of Charles I in 1649."
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Poetry #Literature #JohnMilton @poetry @literature @bookstodon
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In the third century, Roman armies were routinely embarrassed by Shapur I, the ‘king of the kings’ of the Sasanians. Shapur defeated Gordian III, forced the Roman emperor Philip I to pay blood money, and reportedly used Valerian as a footstool!
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On my to-read list is Turing's paper written as an undergraduate where he independently came up with a proof of the Central Limit Theorem, because he was not satisfied with the vague treatment he had been shown in lectures. He didn't know Lindeberg had already proved the result properly about a decade earlier.
https://turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/unpublished-manuscripts-and-drafts-amtc/amt-c-28
You can read a 1995 paper in the American Mathematical Monthly discussing this, here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2974762
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African-American mathematician & astronomer Benjamin Banneker born 10 Nov. 1731: "His significant accomplishments and correspondence with prominent political figures profoundly influenced how African Americans were viewed during the Federal period"
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/november-09?loclr=eatod
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@MoralCompass@toad.social If he had lost, I presume those allegations would have been brought out to see the light of day.
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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