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🌡️ 🌍 **New study warns of 'creeping catastrophy' as climate change drives a global rise in infectious diseases**
"_Participants reported that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create an escalating health crisis that could become a ‘creeping catastrophe’ if left unaddressed._"
#News #Research #Study #Science #Epidemiology #Health #Medicine #Climate #ClimateChange
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More reasons to ban screens in the classroom: significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban after that initial adjustment period. Cellphone bans in schools also significantly reduce student unexcused absences
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34388
📚 **MIT Press: new books for December 2025**
**Roman-era ink reveals surprising chemical complexity**
"_University of Évora archaeologist César Oliveira, the lead author of the new study, says the ink’s basic ingredients were as expected, but ‘the surprising element is the intentional inclusion of iron-gall ink constituents, creating a hybrid of carbon-based and metal-based ingredients’. The tannin from oak galls combined with iron salts during the ink-making process to create an intense black or dark purple ink._"
**Explaining the Tides Before Newton**
"_Astronomical explanations for tides, usually credited to Isaac Newton, can be traced to thinkers like Strabo and Pliny in the Classical era._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/explaining-the-tides-before-newton/.
#History #Science #HistSci #Oceans #Physics
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🏴 **We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals**
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A humanities degree is still a smart investment|Opinion
https://share.inquirer.com/8dVqH3
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Oxford picks 'rage bait' as its word of the year. But what does it mean?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/oxford-picks-rage-bait-word-year/story?id=127998763&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@wackJackle It doesn't look like it.
🇬🇧 **New analysis: 800,000 under-5s using social media**
"_Data from Ofcom found that 37 per cent of parents of three to five-year-olds say their child uses at least one social media app or site, up from to 29 per cent in 2023._"
🔗 https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/newsroom/under-5s-using-social-media.
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From University Press of Kansas:
Now in Paperback! Rural Rebellion: How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold, with a new preface by the author Ross Benes
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@christinkallama Looks great. Thank you for the link.
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Beginning with some self-promotion 😊
My book, along with the entire catalog, at the University of Virginia Press is 50% off through Cyber Monday with code 10TURKEY.
I explain how mapmakers and merchants and many more made sense of the new global encounters in the sixteenth century.
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All Cornell University Press books are 44% off through December 5 with code 9WINTER.
Cornell has a wonderful series in #Russian and #Eurasian studies. #Soviet and post-Soviet societies and questions of all types.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501781872/encountering-race-in-albania
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UVA Press has excellent books in many categories, including Early America, African-American history and, of course, #CivilWar history. Not to mention the Studies in Early Modern German History series, including this one-of-a-kind diary of an executioner in Nuremberg in the sixteenth century.
https://upress.virginia.edu/title/4975/
All 50% off through Monday with code 10TURKEY
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🇩🇪 🇵🇱 **Germany will return Teutonic archives looted in WWII to Poland, media reports**
"_The archives, seized by Nazi forces as part of a broad cultural plunder, contain manuscripts and documents tied to the medieval Teutonic Order of warrior monks—materials invaluable to understanding the order’s expansion, its conflicts with Poland and Lithuania, and the formation of regional borders._"
🔗 https://tvpworld.com/90298141/germany-to-return-medieval-teutonic-documents-stolen-in-wwii-report.
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Is America Heading for a Debt Crisis? Look Abroad for Answers
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/uk-budget-debate-us-debt-lessons-38bc52e3?st=SxRgcd
**UC San Diego Review of Senate-Administration Workgroup Report on Admissions**
"_Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level increased nearly thirtyfold; moreover, 70% of those students fall below middle school levels, reaching roughly one in twelve members of the entering cohort._"
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Today in Labor History November 29, 1781: The crew of the British slave ship Zong slaughtered over 130 enslaved Africans. According to the crew, the ship ran low on drinking water after several navigational blunders. Consequently, they threw the insured slaves overboard. However, when the insurers refused to pay, the slavers sued. On appeal, the judges, ruled against the slave trading syndicate, due to evidence that the captain and crew were at fault. Following the first trial, a freed man, Olaudah Equiano, brought news of the massacre to the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp, who fought unsuccessfully to have the ship's crew prosecuted for murder. This did increase publicity, stimulating the abolitionist movement. The event led to the passage of the Slave Trade Act 1788, Britain’s first law regulating the slave trade. And in 1791, Parliament prohibited insurance companies from reimbursing ship owners when enslaved Africans were murdered by being thrown overboard.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #abolition #massacre #racism #BlackMastadon
🖥️ **Bosses think AI will boost productivity — but it's actually deskilling workers, a professor says**
_"It's one thing for a senior coder to use AI," she said. "But the junior people are useless because they cannot help themselves from using it."_
_Because they lean on AI from day one, Berg said, they never build the foundational knowledge required to understand what the AI is doing — let alone verify or correct it._
🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are-deskilling-workers-philosophy-professor-2025-11.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Careers #Jobs #Productivity #Deskilling
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