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🇺🇸 How Christianity’s Decline Impacts White Christians’ Emotional and Attitudinal Response
"Racial resentment predicts Christian nationalism, Christian persecution beliefs, and White persecution beliefs. In other words, negative stereotypes about Black Americans are related to Christian nationalism and persecution beliefs. But while Whiteness and Christianity are undeniably intertwined among Whites, our experiment provides evidence that they cannot be conflated."
#ChristianNationalism #Secularization #Politics #PoliticalScience #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Chrisitianity #Religion #Christians #Emotions @politicalscience
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🇺🇸 "Land Of Cotton - King Cotton's Slaves" 1936 Southern Tenant Sharecroppers Documentary XD49484
"This particular episode of the series takes an in depth look at the struggles of Black and white tenant sharecroppers and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in Arkansas during the New Deal Years."
#Video length: 8 minutes 25 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_o38AGSx6Q
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Arkansas #Documentary #Newsreel #NewDeal #Cotton #Sharecroppers #Farming #Farm #Farmers @histodon @histodons
@undefined @deinol Hope you get an answer you can use.
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I’d like to read Marco Polo, but I’d really love an unabridged and annotated version. But are there any that aren’t over a hundred years old? I can find one from 1903, but I feel like scholarship has likely established a little more information since then.
But perhaps it’s not interesting enough for modern readers.
Anyone have a particular edition they recommend?
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"Mathematics must subdue the flights of our reason; they are the staff of the blind; no one can take a step without them; and to them and experience is due all that is certain in physics." – Voltaire (1694-1778)
#quote #mathematics #math #maths
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Again, last month was the warmest on record globally in the GISTEMPv4 dataset for the month of April... #ClimateChange
[(Preliminary) data/info: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/]
The History of Ions: Unveiling the Electric Charge
"Around 1830, Faraday posited the existence of charged particles within molecules that migrate between electrodes during electrolysis—an idea ahead of its time."
https://historyofsciences.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-history-of-ions-unveiling-electric.html
#History #Science #HistSci #STEM @science
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Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Why You Hate The Modern World | Kierkegaard's The Present Age
"Kierkegaard's "The Present Age" or "On The Present Age" is his attempt to make sense of the changing world of 19th century Denmark, and the dawn of what we would now call modernity. And In this brilliant piece Kierkegaard takes us through so many issues we now view as major and established - predicting them over 150 years ago. So here is his guide to why you hate the modern world."
#Video length: 23 minutes 48 seconds.
The thing that ruined English spelling
"In this video, let's explore what the GVS was and why it screwed up English spelling forever."
#Video length: 14 minutes 28 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmL6FClRC_s
#English #Language #Spelling #Linguistics #GreatVowelShift @linguistics
@jemmesedi Thank you for provinding this background information.
Ideas are best discussed, debated and if errorenous refuted.
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Hmmm... I'm not calling for this article to be taken down or censored in any way, but i do want draw attention to some aspects of the article itself and some background on Palladium Magazine.
- I suspect many of the historical claims about population size and growth will not stand up to scrutiny. For example, to attribute such importance to demography in understanding the history of C19 France is absurdly simplistic. Natalism and criticism of the supposedly enervating influence of the Enlightenment have long been staples of the hard right in France; it doesn't follow that these points of view are of any value.
- The article does note with approval the migration of talented researchers into the USA, but it fails to note that any solution to a putative demographic crisis in the west should surely include encouraging immigration.
-That the article does not recommend such a measure beyond "brain draining" other countries is hardly surprising when we learn a little more about Palladium Magazine.
- The founding editor of the magazine is Jonah Bennett.
You can read more about this unsavory character here:
https://www.splinter.com/leaked-emails-show-how-white-nationalists-have-infiltra-1837681245
- Palladium Magazine is a publication of the American Governance Foundation, a thinktank funded by Peter Thiel. You can read more about his ultraright politics here:
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-enigma-of-peter-thiel
The article fits right in with the Thiel worldview.
🇺🇸 The Demographic Roots of American Power
"Few have truly come to terms with what the demographic collapse of the working-age populations of the developed world—where the great bulk of scientific discovery and innovation is concentrated—will mean for the future of humanity."
https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/05/10/the-demographic-roots-of-american-power/
#Article #Demography #Demographics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
Francisco de Almeida - Part 1 - Age of Discovery
"He and his only son venture forth on the 7th Portuguese Armada to establish the worlds first trade empire. However the challenges that await them will test them to their core."
#Video length: 26 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IP3ejxyep0
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Portugal #Europe #Trade #Empire #Animation @histodon @histodons
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Regarding a previous post about #Japan and the #English language and #EnglishEducation .
No need to fix that title.
The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism
"...thanks to Alexander the Great, Hellenistic and Buddhist cultures came into contact in the 4th century BCE, creating a cultural synthesis known as Greco-Buddhism."
#Video length: 19 minutes 10 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA0wB3d7MgE
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Religion #Buddhism #Ancient #Greece #Greek @histodon @histodons
@1dalm @economics 'C' was an option for a reason.
"I analyze Machiavelli's frequent references to hope throughout his corpus to offer an explanation of what he means by ‘hope,” examine the relation between hope and fear, and identify the benefits, dangers, and limits of these two foundational and complementary passions."
Mitchell, C.E. (2024) ‘Beyond the Politics of Fear: Machiavelli on Hope’, The Review of Politics, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670524000019.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Machiavelli #Politics #PoliticalScience #Fear #Hope #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
#Image attribution: Peace Palace Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niccol%C3%B2-Machiavelli-Amelot-de-La-Houssaie-Il-principe_MG_1089.tif
AI deception: A survey of examples, risks, and potential solutions
"Large language models and other AI systems have already learned, from their training, the ability to deceive via techniques such as manipulation, sycophancy, and cheating the safety test. AI’s increasing capabilities at deception pose serious risks, ranging from short-term risks, such as fraud and election tampering, to long-term risks, such as losing control of AI systems."
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2024.100988
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMS #Deception #Risk #Risks #Science #STEM #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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