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.
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@undefined @philip_cardella For some it may will be a very rude awakening.
Politics Question
@homelessjun For some delusion is bliss.
🔴 📖 “Here I Gather All the Friends” Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
"Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by revisiting the bibliographic imaginations of Machiavelli, Montaigne, and W. E. B. Du Bois, and finds a space where words mediate the world and the self."
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/machiavelli-and-the-emergence-of-the-private-study/
🔴 📖 The Queens of the Arabs During the Neo-Assyrian Period
_Whereas previous scholarship has considered the Queens of the Arabs in relation to the military and economic history of the Neo-Assyrian empire, Eleanor Bennett focuses on identity, using gender theory to locate points of the women’s alterity in Assyrian sources and to analyze how Assyrian cultural norms influenced the treatment of the “Queens of the Arabs._
🔗 https://www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/978-951-51-8582-2.html
#Ancient #Assyriology #History #Histodon #Histodons #NearEast #Arabs #Arabia #MiddleEast #Asia #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🎥 A bizarre probability fact
#Video length: two minutes and forty eight seconds.
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Developing Expertise Improves the Brain’s Ability to Concentrate
Expertise bulks up the brain’s ability to think deeply, a skill that may generalize across tasks
@SanguinePar Thank you for the link.
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#Bitcoin - The whole market is up and #crypto has a high beta. This makes #crypto a very risky asset. When everyone else gets rich, you get even richer. And when markets crash, you are even worse off - just when you may need money most, chart @AllisonSchrager https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-12/trump-win-doesn-t-completely-explain-the-bitcoin-bubble
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#China’s #trade surplus is on track to hit a record this year, increasingly putting it on a collision course with some of the world’s biggest economies by aggravating an imbalance in global commerce and potentially provoking Trump – chart @economics https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-11/china-approaches-record-1-trillion-trade-surplus-to-world-s-ire
#QOTO: I have followed a number of accounts recently. Some of them are through flipboard and others are private accounts. The toots from the flipboard account such as Flipboard UK (see image) are showing in my home timeline but still have the 'egg timer' sign and I am being asked if I want to cancel follow request. The other set of accounts (private) just have the cancel request with the "egg timer" and none of their toots appear in my home timeline. I was wondering if there is anything I can do to resolve this situation?
@dangillmor @guardian I wonder if they will be moving to Mastodon?
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Some good news: the Barricades project website is up and running again:
"‘To the Barricades’ is a collaborative website project that seeks to chart and compare the development of forms of popular contention and protest in Europe in the years 1815-1850 – from the final fall of Napoleon to the collapse of the revolutions of 1848."
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Humanity has warmed the planet by 1.5°C since 1700
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455715-humanity-has-warmed-the-planet-by-1-5c-since-1700/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Climate Change @climate-change-science
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#30DayMapChallenge Day 11: Arctic map. Here's the extent of Arctic sea ice, every January since 1974.
🔴 🎥 Bredt’s Rule was broken
"What's more fun than proving a 100 year old chemistry principle wrong?"
#Video length: fifty nine seconds.
🔴 🌍 How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa
"“There’s been this long-standing argument—and this is something that comes out of the colonial narrative—that parts of Africa have just always been food insecure because their agriculture, environments, or crops are inferior,” says Logan. But, as the data show, African farmers were knowledgeable and successful for thousands of years. Outside forces uprooted that security."
🔗 https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/food-insecurity-west-africa-origins-colonialism/
#Essay #Anthropology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Colonialism #Food #Africa @anthropology @histodon @histodons
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New #ebook @gutenberg_org: The first voyage round the world, by Magellan by Antonio Pigafetta https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74723
@ijk Contemplating at this stage, wanted to see peoples thoughts and suggestions. Thank you for commenting.
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I may have posted this link before, but Matt Might's short visual essay "Illustrated Guide to a PhD" is a pretty reasonable starting model for what a #PhD contributes to the sum of human knowledge. https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
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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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