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🇮🇳 **How researchers recreated faces of 2,500-year-old skulls found in India**
"_The features also reveal traces of Middle-East Eurasian and Austro-Asiactic ancestries, hinting at global migration and the mixing of ancient population groups. But Prof Kumaresan says that more research is needed to properly establish the ancestries of Keeladi's residents._"
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d061dv36lo.
#Research #Academia #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodons #India @archaeodons @histodons
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Chimes return to 16th Century clock after 100 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0l654859ngo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Royal Family News @royal-family-news-FlipboardUK
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Summer 2025 'almost certainly' UK's hottest on record
https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/c1kz18d3wjro?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-BBCNews
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The challenge of AI slop for preprint servers.
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This is not a flaw of AI. This is a feature
- What began as homework help escalated to 4 hours of daily use for the teen over just a few months
- ChatGPT’s memory feature stored Adam’s darkest thoughts, and leveraged them to extend conversations and keep him engaged on the platform
- ChatGPT mentioned suicide 1,275 times, six times more than Adam himself did
- OpenAI’s own systems flagged 377 messages for self-harm content, yet ChatGPT continued to engage with the teen
https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/how-openais-chatgpt-guided-a-teen?r=3u726t
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The Thirteen Colonies were a cluster of British colonies located along the Atlantic seaboard of North America. #History #ThirteenColonies #AmericanRevolution #Mercantilism #MiddleColonies #SouthernColonies #UnitedStates #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-22360-en/
🇵🇹 🧬 **The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years**
"_We reveal dynamic patterns of migration in line with cultural exchange across millennia, but also the persistence of local ancestries._"
Roca-Rada, X., Davidson, R., Williams, M.P. et al. The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years. Genome Biol 26, 248 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03707-2.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Ancient #DNA #Portugal #Iberia #Paleogenomics #Genetics #Archaeology #Anthropology #Migration #Academia @science @archaeology @anthropology
🌍 🌡️ **Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat**
#LongReads #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange @climatechange
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🖥️ **AI sycophancy isn’t just a quirk, experts consider it a ‘dark pattern’ to turn users into profit**
🖥️ **AI sycophancy isn’t just a quirk, experts consider it a ‘dark pattern’ to turn users into profit**
🖥️ **Is ChatGPT making us stupid?**
"_It’s often said that AI won’t take your job, but someone using AI will. But it seems clear to me that people who use AI to replace their own cognitive abilities will be stuck at the peak of Mount Stupid. These AI users will be the easiest to replace._"
🔗 https://theconversation.com/is-chatgpt-making-us-stupid-255370.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Learning #Thinking #ChatGPT #Technology #Tech #Stupid
🖥️ **80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech #Nostalgia
🇮🇳 🇩🇪 **Manoeuvring Across Academia in National Socialist Germany: The Life and Work of Devendra Nath Bannerjea**
"_The article explores the relationship between knowledge production and National Socialist state politics through the lens of Bannerjea’s life, focussing on the exchange of resources between Bannerjea and the National Socialist apparatus._"
Framke, M. Manoeuvring Across Academia in National Socialist Germany: The Life and Work of Devendra Nath Bannerjea. N.T.M. 31, 307–332 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-023-00363-0.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #India #NationalSocialism #Germany #Knowledge #Academia
🌍 **Global inequality is huge — but so is the opportunity for people in high-income countries to support poor people**
"_People in high-income countries could dramatically improve lives worldwide with minimal financial commitment, yet few do._"
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/global-inequality-opportunity-to-give.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Inequality #Economics @economics
🌍 🌡️ **Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests**
"_Exposure to high temperatures could result in long-lasting damage to health of billions of people, scientists warn_"
#News #Heatwave #Weather #Ageing #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Health
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🗺️ **A Hand-coloured Atlas**
"_Ortelius’s Theatrum orbis terrarum is generally considered to be the first modern atlas. Although Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was himself a cartographer, the 70 maps of the first edition had been created by others, as were the many additional maps of later editions._"
🔗 https://stjohnscollegelibraryoxford.org/2025/08/25/the-first-modern-atlas-2/.
📖 **The Nuremberg Chronicle : A Masterpiece of the Incunable Period**
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swelce, adv: as, like. (SWELL-chuh / ˈswɛl-tʃə)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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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