Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org

**How a medieval Oxford friar used light and colour to find out what stars and planets are made of**

🔗 https://theconversation.com/how-a-medieval-oxford-friar-used-light-and-colour-to-find-out-what-stars-and-planets-are-made-of-262652.

#Medieval #History #Science #HistSci #Astronomy #Histodons

**Parallel Fates? Roma and Jews in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia**

"_Whereas Jews endured an almost relentless series of measures intended to segregate and isolate them, Protectorate authorities initially exerted considerable efforts to forcibly integrate Roma into the majority population through restrictions on movement and mandatory schooling._"

Čapková, K. and Frommer, B. (2025) ‘Parallel Fates? Roma and Jews in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’, Journal of Genocide Research, pp. 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2025.2576330.

#History #Histodons

📚 A Personal Answer To The Lack Of Space For Books

Recently I noticed the ever decreasing amount of space in my home for more books. As a result I decided that I may have to obtain an electronic-reader. This was a difficult decision for me to take as an avowed 'Luddite' I had railed against such electronic paraphernalia your years. I decided that I would use the electronic reader for only light fiction books where intensely focused reading and note-taking are not the need of the hour. I searched studiously trying to find an electronic reader that met my needs and budget. During this time I remembered that a close family member had died a number of years ago and had left behind a third generation Kindle. I went looking to find the unit. After finding the reader and trying to bring it back to life I realised that its battery had given up a long time ago. Since then a new battery has been procured and I can report that it is working well. As a side note the reader is so old it cannot purchase books from the Kindle store. I am not intending to buy from the Kindle store so that is not a problem. What I am intending to use the reader for is to read fiction books that are in the public domain. In this manner I hope to reduce some of the space that books take up in my home. If you have the same problem how have you resolved the situation?

#Books #Bookstodon

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🇺🇸 **As Tariff Case Heads to the Supreme Court, Trump's Strongest Argument Has a Fatal Flaw**

"_The International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't grant the president the power to regulate imports with tariffs. Even if it did, these tariffs would still be unconstitutional._"

🔗 https://reason.com/2025/11/04/as-tariff-case-heads-to-the-supreme-court-trumps-strongest-argument-has-a-fatal-flaw/.

#Tariffs #Trade

🇺🇸 **As Tariff Case Heads to the Supreme Court, Trump's Strongest Argument Has a Fatal Flaw**

"_The International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't grant the president the power to regulate imports with tariffs. Even if it did, these tariffs would still be unconstitutional._"

🔗 https://reason.com/2025/11/04/as-tariff-case-heads-to-the-supreme-court-trumps-strongest-argument-has-a-fatal-flaw/.

#Tariffs #Trade

📚 **History Day 2025 reading list**

"_To celebrate History Day 2025 at London’s Senate House this week, we’ve put together a reading list of essential open access books in history._"

🔗 https://uclpress.co.uk/history-day-2025-reading-list/.

#UCL #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon

**“Ideas about Vikings today can often not be verified scientifically”**

_“They are based essentially on reports written by Christian scholars in the High Middle Ages well over a century later, since, besides brief runic inscriptions, no written texts from the original period have been preserved”_

🔗 https://www.uni-muenster.de/Religion-und-Politik/en/aktuelles/2025/PM_Scheel_Wikinger.shtml.

#History #Histodons #Vikings #Scandinavia

📚 **Mark Twain's adventures at Yale**

"_The literary giant never went to college, but his ties to Yale were many._"

🔗 https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/6142-mark-twain-s-adventures-at-yale.

#MarkTwain #Literature #Books #Bookstodon #Yale

🇬🇧 🔬 **Bleeding to death: the science and technology growth emergency**

"_The UK has an internationally competitive research base, especially in its universities, albeit this is now under financial threat. There is a healthy and growing scene of start-ups and spin-outs; great progress has been made at their early stages. But the UK has been less effective both in scaling up companies that start in the UK and in diffusing new science and technologies across the economy. The result is a country with four of the top ten global universities, but only three of the top 100 industrial R&D spenders globally and none in the top ten._"

🔗 https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldselect/ldsctech/192/19202.htm.

#UK #UnitedKingdom #Science #Technology #Tech #STEM #Research #Report

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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **Trash talk: why are UK kids using so many Americanisms?**

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/nov/03/trash-talk-why-are-uk-kids-using-so-many-americanisms.

#Linguistics

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **How Britain lost America**

🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/how-britain-lost-america.

#History #Histodons

🌍 **International Migration Outlook 2025**

"_In most OECD countries, permanent migration declined in 2024 compared to 2023, namely in EU countries. New Zealand and the United Kingdom also experienced sharp declines after record levels post-pandemic. In contrast, permanent migration to the United States continued to rise (+20%)._"

🔗 https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/international-migration-outlook-2025_ae26c893-en.html.

#OECD #Migration #Report

🇺🇸 **October 2025 ISM® Manufacturing PMI® Report**

"_Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in October for the eighth consecutive month, following a two-month expansion preceded by 26 straight months of contraction, say the nation's supply executives in the latest ISM® Manufacturing PMI® Report_"

🔗 https://www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/reports/ism-pmi-reports/pmi/october/

#Manufacturing #Industry #Economy #Economics

🇺🇸 **UNEQUAL: The rise of a new American oligarchy and the agenda we need**

"_The 10 richest U.S. billionaires got $698 billion wealthier, and the arrival of the world’s first trillionaire grew more imminent._"

🔗 https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/unequal-the-rise-of-a-new-american-oligarchy-and-the-agenda-we-need/.

#USA #US #UnitedStates #Economics #Inequality #Oligarchy