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How maps are used and abused in times of conflict

"The dehumanising effect of maps stems from their inherent abstraction. Maps simplify reality by reducing a complex landscape teeming with life and history into lines, symbols and colours. While necessary for clarity, this simplification often has the consequence of stripping away the human element."

theconversation.com/how-maps-a

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"Whether you're a lifelong bibliophile or a new reader, this guide is packed with tips and strategies to enhance your reading experience."

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Is there a way on to set up notifications to notify when a particular is posted?

cc: @freemo

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@obeto@mas.to Please accept my apologies for misunderstanding what you were alluding to.

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Do you mean like this?

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A doctrine once ingrained in such a way that it becomes a part of a person's sense of self identity can be nigh on impossible to refute irrespective of whether it is based on truth or sophism.

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"Our purpose is to demonstrate that the tropes usually today associated with the Corn and Poor Laws – pauperism, a clash between merchant, manufacturing and landlord interests, population and impoverishment – are absent from discussion during this period."

Lanot (Umeå), G. and Tribe (Tartu), K. (2024) ‘Before political economy: debate over grain markets, dearth and pauperism in England, 1794–96’, History of European Ideas, pp. 1–31. doi: doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024..

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"Justin’s (third or fourth century CE) summary of Trogus’ story (first century BCE) is the most extensive legendary account we have about the migration of Tyrians to northern Libya (or Africa) and the founding of Carthage."

Philip A. Harland, 'Phoenician diasporas: Timaios of Tauromenion, Trogus, and Appian on the founding of Carthage and on child sacrifice (first century BCE),' Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World, last modified April 24, 2024, philipharland.com/Blog/?p=1990.

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The experts: librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books

"Do you love reading – but all too often find yourself just scrolling through your phone or watching TV? Here is how to get lost in literature again".

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

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🇬🇧 One of those questions in life that is an enigma wrapped inside a riddle and formed into a conundrum......

'Why is it cheaper to fly to Manchester than get a train to Liverpool?' | LBC

youtu.be/JS9D9qEaoYE

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Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out.

"I want to find concepts in the model. I want something that I can grab within the neural network, evidence that there is a thing that represents “apple” internally, that allows it to be consistently referred to by the same word."

quantamagazine.org/does-ai-kno

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"Ordnance Survey mapmakers filmed in 1965."

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"Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island?"

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@freemo @maccdog I am really looking forward to using the new features that are planned. I expect the wait is worth it.

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@freemo @maccdog Thank you for the update. I am still finding the site moves at a snail's pace and the toots are not automatically updating in the timelnine. I believe I had this problem before and you were able to fix it. Currently I am having to refresh manually each timeline.

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#Spain sees US-style economic boost from #immigrant workers where an influx of foreign workers is boosting the supply of #labour and raising its economic #growth rate – a rare feat in the #EU, chart @bcarrebravo @ReutersBiz reuters.com/markets/europe/spa

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Early warning sign of extinction?

"Using a high-resolution global dataset of planktonic foraminifera fossils that’s among the richest biological archives available to science, researchers have found that environmental events leading to mass extinctions are reliably preceded by subtle changes in how a biological community is composed, acting as an early warning signal."

news.harvard.edu/gazette/story

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America's Drunkest Counties

"The map is based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which defines excessive drinking as either binge drinking (men 5 drinks in a single session, women 4 drinks in a single session) or heavy drinking (men drinking more than 15 drinks in a week, women drinking 8 drinks in a week)."

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"We present a set of large pedigrees, reconstructed using ancient DNA, spanning nine generations and comprising around 300 individuals. We uncover a strict patrilineal kinship system, in which patrilocality and female exogamy were the norm and multiple reproductive partnering and levirate unions were common. The absence of consanguinity indicates that this society maintained a detailed memory of ancestry over generations."

Gnecchi-Ruscone, G.A., Rácz, Z., Samu, L. et al. Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities. Nature (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-073

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The virtues of the historical mind

"Being historically minded is about having a certain orientation to history, being alive and alert to the fact that almost everything we take for granted in culture today, especially values, has its own roots and its own complex journey, a history of how it came to be."

biblonia.com/2024/04/24/the-vi

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