Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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English 'wood', Dutch 'woud', and German 'Wald' can all mean "forest".
However, despite their similar forms, 'wood' is not in any way etymologically related to 'woud' or 'Wald'.
'Woud' and 'Wald', which do have a common ancestor, are related to English 'wold' instead.
Click my graphic for more.
On my Patreon, I explain how Old English 'widu' could become 'wudu' (400 words):
https://www.patreon.com/posts/128532757
📖 **An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope**
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2428.
#AlexanderPope #ProjectGutenberg #Read #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon
**Bronze Age leprosy hitched rides along ancient copper and pottery trade route**
“_4000-year-old scarred jaws in Oman hub mark oldest cases outside South Asia_”
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How to do without the Donald
Face-eating leopard or tantrum-prone toddler? It would be nice to know the answer, because it would tell us how much attention we need to pay to Donald Trump’s latest outburst. (I don’t know what that outburst is, of course. Something new is likely to happen in the time it takes you to finish this page.) If he is just a toddler having a full-blown meltdown, then the best
https://timharford.com/2025/05/how-to-do-without-the-donald/
@freemo Hi, is the follow feature working in #QOTO? I am trying to follow accounts such as @wikipedia; however, all I obtain is a 'cancel follow request'. It has been like this for a number of months. Furthermore, there are other accounts that I have successfully followed which are still showing 'cancel follow request' whilst being followed.
Thank you for your assistance.
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The rise and fall of the US empire, as written in the US share of world energy consumption.
The empire's 'half life' lasted from 1889 to 2008.
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/05/04/the-half-life-of-empire/
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In the wake of tariffs, cargo at the Port of LA is down 35% https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5389955/los-angeles-port-tariffs
**Why humans evolved blue eyes**
“_And here comes the mystery: for no evident reason, and in an evolutionary time span as short as a few thousand years, the number of people with blue eyes proceeded to expand from one to millions._”
Bressan P (2025) Why humans evolved blue eyes. Front. Psychol. 16:1442500. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1442500.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Psychology #Academia #Academic @psychology
**High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide**
“_Here we show how GHG emissions from consumption and investments attributable to the wealthiest population groups have disproportionately influenced present-day climate change._”
Schöngart, S., Nicholls, Z., Hoffmann, R. et al. High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02325-x.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Science #Academia #Academic @climatechange @science
💻 **Surveillance And Data**
_“All your data belong to us”_
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/all-your-data-belong-to-us.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Data #Surveillance @ai
**From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?**
“_Results from the shipwrecks near Israel strongly suggest that the ‘bronzization’ of the East Mediterranean, occurring 1500–1300 BC, was primarily driven by European tin sources, particularly from south-west Britain, rather than Central Asian sources. Tin ore finds from settlements across Cornwall and Devon suggest a decentralised production model in prehistory, with agriculture still dominant alongside numerous small alluvial tin workings._”
Williams, R.A. et al. (2025) ‘From Land’s End to the Levant: did Britain’s tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?’, Antiquity, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.41.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #BronzeAge #Trade #Europe #Mediterranean #Britain #Levant #Academia #Academics @archaeodons
📖 **How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond**
"_This book gathers together Roman historians with political scientists and scholars of other periods of authoritarian takeover to explore how open and democratic political systems have historically fallen prey to autocrats._"
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111705446.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Ancient #History #Histodons #PoliticalScience #Authoritarianism #Romans #Empire #RomanEmpire #Imperialism #Academia #Academics @politicalscience @histodons
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New to me, another fine collection of historical slavery legislation:
US Anti-Slavery Laws Archive
Includes maps!
Afternoon all.
💻 **Use of ChatGPT in universities: 'We're much closer to a crisis than we think' – UJ Professor**
“_If students are relying on AI to complete their assignments, are they truly acquiring the skills their qualifications are meant to certify?_”
#AI #ArtificalIntelligence #Technology #Tech #ChatGPT #Education #Learning #HigherEducation #University @ai
**Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities**
_"By design, engineering has long been entangled with the humanities"_
🔗 https://spectrum.ieee.org/engineering-and-humanities.
#Engineering #Humanities #History #Technology #Tech #HistSci #Science @science
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For #WorldAsthmaDay here is my #SciArt #embroidery she breathed (2018). I don’t have asthma myself but I have a few family members that have it quite severely and have seen how much it affects them.
🇨🇷 🇩🇰 **The National Museum confirms: Shipwrecks in Costa Rica are Danish slave ships**
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #CostaRica #Denmark #History #Slavery #Shipwrecks @archaeodons
🌎 📖 **America, América: A New History of the New World**
“_America, América traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest—the greatest mortality event in human history—through the eighteenth-century wars for independence, the Monroe Doctrine, the coups and revolutions of the twentieth century, and beyond._”
🔗 https://history.yale.edu/publications/america-am-rica-new-history-new-world.
#Review #BookReview #History #Histodons #Americas #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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