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<strong>Fossil viruses hidden in our DNA thousands of years ago could be the cause of depression, study finds</strong>

"Ancient DNA present in humans may be linked to major psychiatric disorders like depression, researchers have said.

DNA sequences originating from ancient infections are found in the brain, with some contributing to susceptibility for conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression, a study found"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/depression-cause-fossil-virus-dna-b2549421.html

#News #Ancient #DNA #AncientDNA #Psychiatry #MentalHealth #Science #STEM #Research @science

<strong>Episode 295 - The Forgotten Siege</strong>

"_While Epirus was rising and falling, Nicaea was consolidating. John Vatatzes, the new Emperor, was competent at home and abroad. After years of consolidation he decided to besiege Constantinople. But he didn't act alone he invited an unlikely ally to join him._"

https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/663e43e82f1d3d0012737265

#Audio #Podcast #History #Byzantium #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons

#Image attribution: Orion 8, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_announcer.svg

<strong>Times Old Roman</strong>

"_The first true Roman typeface was designed by the Venetian printer Nicolas Jenson in 1470 and is the early modern ancestor of our font developed by Victor Lardent, a lettering artist at The Times, in London, in 1929._"

https://www.biblonia.com/p/times-old-roman

#History #Histodon #Histodons #TimesNewRoman #Typeface #Font @histodon @histodons

<strong>Minds in the Margins: Annotators Bringing Books to Life</strong>

"_We recently had a remarkable copy of Apianus’s Cosmographicus liber (1533), a treatise on geography and astronomy. Its value lies in the extensive annotations, especially in the one on leaf XXXIV, shown below. The note corrects the text by adding the name of Columbus as one of America’s discoverers alongside Vespucci, and reports a learned tradition that America was known to Augustan Rome by quoting two lines from the Aeneid._"

https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/minds-in-the-margins-annotators-bringing-books-to-life/

#Annotation #Marginalia #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

<strong>The Start of De-Dollarization: China’s Gradual Move Away from the USD</strong>

"In the first few months of 2010, settlements in local currency accounted for less than 1.0% of China’s cross-border payments, compared to approximately 83.0% in USD.

China has since closed that gap. In March 2023, the share of the RMB in China’s settlements surpassed the USD for the first time."

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/hf02-start-of-de-dollarization-chinas-gradual-move-away-from-the-usd/

#China #US #USA #UnitedStates #USD #Trade #International #ForeignExchange #Dollar #Data #DataViz #Business

<strong>Hermeneutical disarmament</strong>

"_Hermeneutical disarmament is the process by which a person is rendered less able to understand or communicate experiences, ideas, and other phenomena as a result of semantic change to the linguistic resources that could previously have been deployed for these purposes._"

Robert Morgan, Hermeneutical disarmament, The Philosophical Quarterly, 2024;, pqae046, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae046

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Philosophy #Semantics #Language #Linguistics @philosophy @linguistics

<strong>Ancient genomes revealed the complex human interactions of the ancient western Tibetans</strong>

"_Outside the Tibetan Plateau, the western Tibetan Plateau populations interacted with both South and Central Asian populations at least 2,000 years ago, and the South Asian-related genetic influence, despite being very limited, was from the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) migrants in Central Asia instead of the IVC populations from the Indus Valley._"

'Ancient genomes revealed the complex human interactions of the ancient western Tibetans' (2024) ScienceDirect. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.068.

#OpenAccess #OA #Reseach #DOI #Ancient #DNA #AncientDNA #Tibet #Population #History #IndusValleyCivilization #IVC #SouthAsia #Asia #CentralAsia #Science #STEM #Genetics #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology @science @anthropology

<strong>A new way to discover history</strong>

"_Explore the past on an interactive map with a timeline. Search for detailed high-resolution scanned maps and see what happened in your chosen place in the past._"

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/project

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Map #Maps #Cartography @histodon @histodons

@peterbrown @histodon @histodons @philosophy

After the Second World War, Churchill became the greatest pioneer of the European ideal. “If I were 10 years younger,” he told his wife, “I might be the first President of the United States of Europe.”

Source: https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-173/churchills-europe/

<strong>F. A. Hayek, Libertarianism, and the Denationalization of Money</strong>

"_Hayek found support within the American libertarian movement. Libertarians realized that Hayek's radical proposal would limit state control over the monetary system and allow for the free exchange of gold._"

McIntosh, W. (2024) ‘F. A. Hayek, Libertarianism, and the Denationalization of Money’, Modern American History, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/mah.2024.19.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Conservatism #Business #Capitalism #Politics #Libertarianism #Money #History #Histodon #HIstodons @histodon @histodons

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<strong>Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights</strong>

"_Our findings suggest that U.S. voters are pragmatic about extending the local franchise to noncitizens. Although U.S. voters are, on average, indifferent toward local noncitizen suffrage, they oppose enfranchisement when noncitizens would vote for the opposing party._"

ALARIAN, H. and ZONSZEIN, S. (2024) ‘Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights’, American Political Science Review, pp. 1–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424000522.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Politics #PoliticalScience #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Elections #Democracy #Migration #Migrants #Immigration #Immigrants #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience

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#WordOfTheDay: <strong>solipsistic</strong>.

#WOTD #Word #Words #English #Language

<strong>When Fake Archaeology Uses Fake Science </strong>

"_Dr. M discusses common pseudoscientific arguments used to support pseudo archaeology._"

#Video length: twenty one minutes and forty three seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0OMxE_D1pE

#Fake #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Science @archaeodons @science

<strong>The Absolute BEST Way to Use a Notebook</strong>

"_In this video I show you the very best way to use a notebook... well, I help you decide which notebook method is best for you buy giving you helpful criteria and showing you all the different notebooks I keep._"

#Video length: twenty four minutes and fifty one seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PN8DSd1hqw

#Notes #Notebook #Notebooks #Journal #Journals

@stiefel_fan @histodon @histodons @archaeodons @antiquidons

Thank you for commenting. Yes, it most certainly is.

<strong>Origins of medieval coinage revealed</strong>

"_The implication is that Anglo-Saxon elites had access to significant quantities of Byzantine silver, something that dramatically alters our view of how economically and politically connected they were._"

https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/05/20/origins-of-medieval-coinage-revealed/

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Antiquity #Antiquidons #Archaeology #Medieval #Silver #Coins #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons @antiquidons

<strong>A United States of Europe</strong>

"_A free and unified Europe was first imagined by Italian radicals in the 19th century. Could we yet see their dream made real?_"

https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-recover-the-radical-vision-of-a-free-and-united-europe

#Essay #History #Histodon #Histodons #Empires #Politics #Philosophy #Europe @histodon @histodons @philosophy

#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries. Page URL: https://archive.org/details/dr_europe-00224068

<strong>Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress</strong>

"_AI systems threaten to amplify social injustice, erode social stability, enable large-scale criminal activity, and facilitate automated warfare, customized mass manipulation, and pervasive surveillance.._"

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn0117

#ComputerScience #STEM #Technology #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DOI @ai

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@diazona @bookstodon Thank you for commenting. Is that possible for those of us who prefer reading nonfiction books?