Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Found at last: long-lost branch of the Nile that ran by the pyramids
"The highest concentration of pyramids in Egypt can be found in a stretch of desert between Giza and the village of Lisht. These sites are now several dozens of kilometres away from the Nile River. But Egyptologists have long suspected that the Nile might once have been closer to that stretch than it is today.
Satellite images and geological data now confirm that a tributary of the Nile — which researchers have named the Ahramat Branch — used to run near many of the major sites in the region several thousand years ago."
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01449-y
#DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Geology #Egypt #Pyramids #Nile @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
"After a thorough examination, we may conclude that the item’s amateurish preparation and local origin are suggestive of a scribal exercise. The use of an available mould that was not suitable for a tablet, the child’s fingerprint on the reverse and the corrected mistakes in the script all point to an inexperienced scribe."
Fossé, C. et al. (2024) ‘Archaeo-Material Study of the Cuneiform Tablet from Tel Beth-Shemesh’, Tel Aviv, 51(1), pp. 3–17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03344355.2024.2327796.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Antiquity #Antiquidons #BronzeAge #Cuneiform #Ugarit #Canaan #Canaanite #Semite #Alphabet #Epigraphy #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @antiquidons
Global population growth peaked six decades ago
"The growth rate peaked in 1963 at over 2% per year, and since then, it has more than halved, falling to less than 1% by 2020."
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/global-population-growth-peaked-six-decades-ago
[_I wonder if there is any relationship between the price of gold and monetary policy?_]
Why Gold Is More Valuable Than Ever Now
"WSJ breaks down the factors driving gold’s historic rise, and what makes it different from previous rallies."
#Video length: five minutes and thirty three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYu-xnjwN4Q
#Gold #Markets #Investing #Economy #MonetaryPolicy #Money #Wealth #Economics #Finance #WSJ @economics
Mapped: The 10 U.S. States With the Lowest Real GDP Growth
"Delaware witnessed the slowest growth in the country, with real GDP growth of -1.2% over the year as a sluggish finance and insurance sector dampened the state’s economy."
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-states-by-lowest-real-gdp-growth/
#Data #DataViz #Housing #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Economy #GDP #Jobs #InterestRates @data
How do we use the Earth’s land?
"There are a few pretty big takeaways here. For one, the fact that agriculture takes up almost half of habitable land. Humankind has, over the past 1000 years, turned 120,000 square kilometers of wild habitat into farmland — an area equal to the USA 13 times over.
That, of course, makes agriculture the absolute number one cause of deforestation and our planet’s diminishing biodiversity."
https://blog.datawrapper.de/land-use-animal-agriculture/
#Data #DataViz #Agriculture #Farming #Earth #Biodiversity #Environment #Deforestation @data
#Image attribution: mxwegeleSasin Tipchai, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indigenous_buffalo_agriculture.jpg
"Four factors are found to be significant predictors of the position of primary stress: endings, word complexity, the segmental structure of the final syllable, and syllable count. Moreover, this study confirms previous observations on the tendency for American English to have more final stress in French loanwords than British English."
Dabouis, Q. and Fournier, P. (2024) ‘Stress in French loanwords in British and American English’, Journal of Linguistics, pp. 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226724000136.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Linguistics #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #GB #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #France #French #English #LoanWord #LoanWords #Word #Words #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics
John Milton’s notes discovered
"John Milton’s handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles, a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet."
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/john-miltons-notes-discovered-2024
#Literature #Poetry #Poem #Poems @poetry @literature
#Image attribution: William Faithorne, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Milton_Met_DP886207.jpg
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The world according to Greek historian Herodotus in 450 BC.
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/650987417390710784/the-world-according-to-greek-historian-herodotus
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Nature earns ire over lack of code availability for Google DeepMind protein folding paper – Retraction Watch
#StructuralBiology @strucbio
#Alphafold #Google #Bioinformatics
@RezaHoss You are welcome.
@RezaHoss A friendly suggestion, for your question to make sense you might like to change the preposition 'of' to 'between'.
@mrundkvist A trip down memory lane.
@HuShuo In "Is this the End of Reading?"
Yes, most probably.
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Is this the End of Reading?
Students are coming to college less able and less willing to read. Professors are stymied.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-this-the-end-of-reading
How to measure the Earth
"The first known calculation of the Earth’s circumference was made 2300 years ago by a man called Eratosthenes. I remember in school, how impressed I was by how accurately the Earth’s circumference was measured such long time ago. Today we’re going to take a closer look on how his calculation was made."
https://blog.datawrapper.de/earth-circumference-eratosthenes/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #HistSci #STEM #Earth @histodon @histodons
Top 10 Countries Most in Debt to the IMF
"We compiled this ranking using the International Monetary Fund’s data on Total IMF Credit Outstanding. We selected the latest debt data for each country, accurate as of April 29, 2024."
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/top-10-countries-most-in-debt-to-the-imf/
#Data #DataViz #Markets #Debt #IMF #Economy #Finance #InternationalMonetaryFund
Glimpse of next-generation internet
"The Harvard team established the practical makings of the first quantum internet by entangling two quantum memory nodes separated by optical fiber link deployed over a roughly 22-mile loop through Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, and Boston."
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/glimpse-of-next-generation-internet/
#News #Science #STEM #Tech #Technology #Internet #Quantum #Computer #Network #Harvard #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
Mystery as 1,600-year-old ancient Irish stone unearthed in English garden
"The 1,600-year-old stone, which is inscribed with an Irish language from the 4th century AD, was unearthed by a geography teacher in Coventry, West Midlands, in 2020."
#News #Archaeology #England #Ireland #Europe #Irish #Language #Archaeodons @archaeodons
From the manuscript to you: How Old Norse manuscripts are read and edited
"A case-study in how a page from an Old Norse manuscript (in this case the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda) is edited for publication in a modern-day book. Manuscript images from the Árni Magnússon Institute at the University of Iceland (handrit.is)."
#Video length: Thirty minutes and fifteen seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7KYyj8ed94
#Read #Reading #OldNorse #Manuscript #Editing #Publishing #Academia #Academic #Academics #Medieval #Medievodons #Iceland #Poem #Poems #Poetry @poetry @medievodons
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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