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#German -led #austerity didn't work then. It won't work now. #stagnant growth and #productivity should raise alarm bells, not rising public debt, chart @LionelRALaurent https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-02/european-economy-worry-about-growth-not-debt-levels
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#Japan is the world’s largest foreign holder of UST --- #BoJ ‘s share of UST outstanding, chart @ReutersBiz https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/if-japan-exhausts-intervention-slush-fund-treasuries-may-wobble-mcgeever-2024-05-01/
@barefootstache You are right in saying that numerics is only a small portion of maths. I would contend that for most of the general public, out of all of the mathematics they are taught in primary or secondary education it is the main one that sticks in the mind. While there are many fields in maths the one that has a lasting impact for many people is numeracy.
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The Impossible Map [video, 1947]
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https://www.nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/ <--link to video
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[still an excellent teaching aid, and who doesn’t like the idea of mangling a grapefruit with a rolling pin?! (turnips not so much…) ~wink~ ]
“Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth...”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #mapprojections #geography #coordinates #film #video #education #training #onlinelearning
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#YouTube is excited about pause screen #ads — and they're coming for your TV first - https://mashable.com/article/youtube-pause-screen-ads-coming-for-tvs-first more ads - just what everyone is asking for...
What happens when the permafrost thaws? | The Royal Society
"Around 11% of the Earth's land mass is covered by permafrost. But its delicate balance is being threatened by climate change."
#Video length: 8 minutes 14 seconds
#RoyalSociety #Science #Permafrost #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @science @climatechange
🇬🇧 Maths degrees are becoming less accessible – and this is a problem for business, government and innovation
"Research carried out in 2019 by King’s College London and Ipsos found that half of the working age population had the numeracy skills expected of a child at primary school. Just as worrying was that despite this, 43% of those polled said “they would not like to improve their numeracy skills”."
#Mathematics #Maths #Math #University #Education #Degree #UK #UnitedKingdom @education
1861-1865: The Complete Story Of The American Civil War | History Of Warfare | Timeline
"Less than a century after gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States of America would be wracked by a Civil War as the secessionist Confederate States of the South fought the Union forces of the remaining loyal states. Four long years of war would result in the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the fate of the Union hung in the balance."
#Video length: 54 minutes 40 seconds
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #C19th #19thCentury @histodon @histodons
Early Modern Genres of History
Johnsen, E.N., & Stovner, I.L. (Eds.). (2024). Early Modern Genres of History (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003331971
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon
@histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (81)
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656 years ago today, in 1368, the Icelander Thorsteinn Eyjolfsson was captured by soldiers from Lübeck somewhere in Norway.
Never heard of him? Ok:
Thorsteinn was one of the most powerful men in Iceland at the time. Iceland was ruled from Norway, and Thorsteinn was several times "hirðstjóri", the Norwegian king's top guy in Iceland.
Now Norway was at war with loads of German cities and territories. Thorsteinn happened to be in Norway when the war broke out.
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#history #histodons
"Even though it was hoped that machines might overcome human bias, this assumption often fails due to a problematic or theoretically implausible selection of variables that are fed into the model and because of small size, low representativeness, and presence of bias in the training data [5.]."
Suchotzki, K. and Gamer, M. (2024) 'Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils,' Trends in Cognitive Sciences [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.04.002.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Deception #Lies #Bias #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning #Psychology @science @psychology
#Image attribution: Madhav-Malhotra-003, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_Intelligence_Word_Cloud.png
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Why is 'laugh' written with -ugh while it ends with an [f] sound?
It's because the spelling 'laugh' reflects how the word was pronounced in Late Middle English, some 500 years ago.
Click the video to listen to a phonetic reconstruction of how this verb evolved from 3rd-century BC Proto-Germanic to modern-day Standard English.
The Middle English to Early Modern English stages are based on the dialect of the region of London.
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A must-read #book --- “The Bankers’ New Clothes” What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It @anatadmati March 05, 2024 @PrincetonUPress https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691251707/the-bankers-new-clothes
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🆓 This is the most wonderful little book for everyone interested in #SciComm - and it's for free!
"50 Essentials on #sciencecommunication published by the University of Luxembourg.
👉 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110763577/html
It covers everything from the history of scicomm to press releases, #SocialMedia, #science shows, risk communication, engaging with policy makers, language, you name it... Highly recommended!
#ScienceMastodon #AcademicMastodon #SciCom #WissKomm #academia
"These eight cities were not necessarily the largest in terms of land area or even population in some cases, but they were large in their sense of importance to the medieval era."
Whipple, Madison. "The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/largest-cities-medieval-world/ (accessed April 30, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons @histodon @histodons
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Mega-droughts, war, migration: What do 30,000 years of history reveal about how societies withstand collapse? I take a look at an intriguing new study for my Origins column. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/science/resilient-societies-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok0.0pxJ.SV-0DZRlByO-&smid=url-share
Visualizing Global Gold Production in 2023
"In this graphic, we list the world’s leading countries in terms of gold production."
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-global-gold-production-in-2023/
How to Study Using Mind Mapping
#Video #Learn #MindMapping #StudySkills #Tips #Study #Education @education
Networks of knowledge
"Instead of the oral wisdom pathways, we have digital social networks. Instead of printed repositories, we have dynamic self-curated web spaces, written or not (such as podcasts, videos and documentaries). Instead of costly access, we have almost unmediated instant accessibility."
Dab-dab and a learned idiom
"One wonders: Are we dealing with a set of relatively late independent creations or a set of old (even ancient) roots, whose reflexes sound like baby words but are still regular nouns and verbs? Opinions on this score are divided (opinions in etymology are always divided), especially because borrowing (take note!) is always a possibility."
https://blog.oup.com/2024/05/dab-dab-and-a-learned-idiom/
#Word #Words #Idiom #Idioms #English #Langauge #Linguistics #Etymology @linguistics
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