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Meanwhile in Spain, the combination of widespread regional drought & the rights of private water companies to syphon water out of the aquifers has become a major political issue - of course this issue is hardly limited to Spain, and merely suggests that problems common across poorer countries are coming closer to the developed world....
As the article is neatly headlined:
'Its not drought - its looting'!
🔴 If you are leaving Twitter/X why would you want to go to another platform similar to it?
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"When one editor started asking authors to add their raw data after they submitted a paper to his journal, half of them declined and retracted their submissions. This suggests, in the editor’s words, “a possibility that the raw data did not exist from the beginning.”"
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
🔴 🇬🇱 🎥 **The Old Norse Language in Greenland**
_"Greenland's runestones and the dialect of Old Norse they point to."_
#Video length: fourteen minutes and forty seconds.
🔴 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **“Cleaner”**
Ben Yagoda
_"That word, “cleaner,” wasn’t familiar–I imagined it meant what Americans would call a cleaning lady, a cleaning person, a custodian, a janitor, basically, something that sounded a bit fancier than what the job really is.”_
🔗 https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/2024/11/22/cleaner/
#Word #Words #Britishism #British #American #English #Language
‘An AI Fukushima is inevitable’: scientists discuss technology’s immense potential and dangers
Ian Sample
_A huge challenge for researchers is the black box problem: many AIs can reach decisions but not explain them, making the systems hard to trust. But that may be about to change, Hassabis said, through the equivalent of brain scans for AIs. “I think in the next five years we’ll be out of this era that we’re currently in of black boxes.”_
#News #Science #Technology #Tech #STEM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Computing #Energy @science @ai
🔴 Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of Cartel Capitalism in Western Europe, 1918–1957
"I show how governments of all ideological stripes—from liberal Britain to New Deal America, social-democratic Belgium, Third Republic France, Peronist Argentina, fascist Italy and Japan, and Nazi Germany—all began mandating cartelization in hopes that business cooperation on prices and production could cure the Great Depression’s dislocations."
Hewitt, L. (2024) ‘Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of Cartel Capitalism in Western Europe, 1918–1957’, Enterprise & Society, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2024.38.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Business #Cartels #Capitalism #Monopoly #WorldWarII #WorldWar2 #WW2 #GreatDepression #Europe #USA #US #UnitedStates #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
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Using Chatbots and Ancient Writing to Simulate the Cultural Attitudes of Ancient Civilizations
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/using-chatbots-and-ancient-writing-to-simulate-the-cultural-attitudes-of/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Scientific American @scientific-american-SciAm
🔴 Study: Brilliant white male characters more believable, some viewers say
By Sharita Forrest
"Viewers who endorsed intelligence-related stereotypical beliefs rated white male characters as more typical of geniuses in the broader population than Black people of either sex or white women."
🔴 🇺🇸 The United States is the world’s largest oil producer
Hannah Ritchie
"Production in the US gradually declined during the 1990s and early 2000s but increased steeply again post-2010 and is now at an all-time high."
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-united-states-is-the-worlds-largest-oil-producer
#Data #DataViz #Oil #Energy #FossilFuels #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
🔴 🌡️ Staggering temperature rise predicted for the Middle East and North Africa
"By 2100, the Arabian Peninsula could warm on average by 2.6 degrees Celsius (4.7 degrees Fahrenheit) under low emission scenarios, and by 7.6 degrees Celsius (13.7 degrees Fahrenheit) under high emission scenarios."
🔗 https://news.agu.org/press-release/middle-east-north-africa-warming/
#Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Arabia #MiddleEast #Asia #NorthAfrica #MENA #Africa @science @climatechange
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What helps to navigate the route and directions is the provided compass of the map: "Der Compass".
Having a compass built into a navigation device with mile indicators leading to the direction of the trip's goal at the screen's top might be our present solution in cars, but it has roots in the fifteenth-century map making. Enjoy this fact, dear #histodons. #BookHistory #MapHistory
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The south-up map with "Roma" on top (left picture) and the German North Sea and the Baltic Sea coasts situated in the lower regions of the map (right picture), do look unfamiliar for nowadays observers.
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Produced as a woodcut, i.e. the details cut into a block of wood before printing, the map was always in the same size and format as the very wood block used: 41 x 29 cm in stereographic projection to a scale of about 1:5,600,000.
Have a look at the map yourself: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/9a239e34-a3f9-4914-ab93-cc982cb944a0/
The dots used on the map are mile-indicators for actual travelers to Rome - or for travelers of the mind.
#MapHistory #BookHistory #histodons
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All roads lead to Rome. Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through early modern German speaking Europe. The map was printed as a single-sheet item, and was made in Nuremberg for the Holy Year 1500.
Etzlaub wanted his "Rom-Weg" map to be bought, so he offered colored versions too, like the one you see, because these were more expensive. A thread for #histodons #maphistory
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Siccius Dentatus, the man born with teeth, was an early plebeian hero.
Dentatus' mum, however, would like to let you all know that she doesn't recommend having a baby who is born with teeth. She's starting her own nipple cream company.
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An article about why so many high achievers are unhappy.
🔴 No Time To Blog
Set up a blog at the start of November and have not had the time to write anything apart from the customary 'Hello World' post.
#Blog #Blogging #Writing #NoTime #Busy
#Image attribution: Sophie Janotta (Sophieja23), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Blog-684748_640.jpg
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Lucifer: devil, planet, or chemical element?
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