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"Ethicists warn that without careful regulation, genome editing could lead to a two-tier society, split between those who are edited and those who are not." https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/crispr/ #Science #Technology #CRISPR #Genetics #DNA

Source: https://twitter.com/sciencefocus/status/1659515640120500225

Short #history #video: the death of Chinggis Khan https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A1llQj-hM2A #histodons @histodons

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"Lek-Heng Lim uses tools from algebra, geometry and topology to answer questions in machine learning." https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-applied-mathematician-strengthens-ai-with-pure-math-20230301/ #AI #ArtificalIntelligence #Maths #MachineLearning

Source: https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1659234920462516224

Mathematical mysteries: The Barber's Paradox https://plus.maths.org/content/mathematical-mysteries-barbers-paradox #Maths

May 1664: Hooke vs. Cassini: Who Discovered Jupiter’s Red Spot? https://aps.org/publications/apsnews/202005/history.cfm #History #Science #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1659182115232022528

"Prehistoric humans in Europe might have been sitting round campfires built to toast snacks as early as 250,000 years ago – 50,000 years earlier than originally thought, researchers have suggested." https://theguardian.com/science/2023/may/18/scientists-find-oldest-known-evidence-of-humans-in-europe-using-fires-to-cook #Science #Anthropology #Europe #Spain #Madrid

@tragiccommons Thank you for your comment. It's commendable that software support for LaTex is being developed and even more commendable is that it is being done open source.

Scientist of the day: Barthélemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond. https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/barthelemy-faujas-de-saint-fond-4 #History #Science #histodons @histodons

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"The camps suggest the Roman takeover of the Nabataean kingdom may not have been as peaceful as previously thought". https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-roman-army-camps-in-jordan-that-may-indicate-a-secret-military-mission-180982165/ #History #Archaeology #Roman #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/AntiquityJ/status/1658825952317538307

"Dr Patricia Fara tells the story of Caroline Herschel, concert soprano turned astronomer, unkindly caricatured in Georgian times as ‘The Female Philosopher, smelling out the Comet’. " https://royalsociety.org/blog/2023/05/first-ladys-comet/ #History #Science #histodons @histodons

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Is it the beginning of the end for scientific publishing? – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2023/may/16/is-it-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-scientific-publishing-podcast #Science #Books #Publishing #Podcast #bookstodon @bookstodon

Cunningham, M. (2022). The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400–1000: Hymns, Homilies and Hagiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009327244 #History #Europe #OpenAccess #OA #Books #histodons @histodons

Working, L. (2020). The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108625227 #History #OpenAccess #OA #Books #Britain #America #histodons @histodons

Naef, A. (2022). An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom: 1945–1992 (Studies in Macroeconomic History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878333 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Economics #UK #histodons @histodons

"Ever wish you had an assistant to do research, prep files, create outlines, or draft emails? https://www.atanet.org/business-strategies/5-tedious-non-translation-tasks-chatgpt-can-do-amazingly-well/ Now you do." #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Translations

Source: https://twitter.com/Smart_Translate/status/1658487483762618371

"Piltdown Man placed Britain’s name on the map of human evolution. There was only one problem—there’s no such thing as a missing link."https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-problem-of-piltdown-man #History #Science #Evolution #Britain #histodons @histodons

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"Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries". https://newbooksnetwork.com/spoils-of-knowledge #Podcast #Books #Sweden #Library #Archives #History #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/Brill_History/status/1658503386357022728

Lucas, P. (2022). A CONSPECTUS OF LETTERS TO AND FROM SIR HENRY SPELMAN (1563/4–1641). The Antiquaries Journal, 102, 370-388. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581522000026 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Anglo_Saxon #Manuscripts #England #Research #histodons @histodons

"This article explores the impact of Enlightenment ideas in late eighteenth-century Sweden through the case study of Rosenstein and his remarkable text." https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2023.2187879 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Sweden #Scotland #Enlightenment #C18th #histodons @histodons

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