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<strong>A Brief History of English Numeracy</strong>

"_The people of late medieval and early modern England were almost universally numerate. Is our ability to count the thing that makes us human?_"

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/brief-history-english-numeracy

#History #Histodon #Histodons #England #English #Numeracy #Maths #Mathematics #Math #STEM #HistSci @histodon @histodons

<strong>In Need of a New Myth</strong>

"_Where do national myths originate? They do not emerge by happenstance. Rather their creation and spread are an exercise of power. Influential historical actors, from antebellum slaveholders to the moguls of Hollywood and those Slotkin calls the ‘political classes’, have attempted to develop and disseminate broadly acceptable myths to serve their own interests._"

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n13/eric-foner/in-need-of-a-new-myth

#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Review #BookReview #Bookstodon #US #USA #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

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@profabelmendez Looks like the link is broken. I got the following message:

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@seindal @histodon @histodons

Thank you for commenting. Yes, it is informative.

<strong>Episode 300 – The 10 Greatest Byzantine Emperors</strong>

https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/667ac8b9a2475610ca6ebc97

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

#Image attribution: Claus Grünstäudl w18, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elegant_steel_microphone_(Unsplash).jpg

<strong>Royal Society exhibition revives 18th-century debate about shape of the Earth</strong>

"_Some members of the French Academy of Sciences interpreted measurements taken in Paris by scientists including Jacques Cassini as supporting the idea that the Earth was elongated at the poles, resembling a lemon or a melon._

_By contrast, Isaac Newton had proposed that the centrifugal force caused by the Earth’s rotation would result in the planet being flattened at its poles, thus having a similar shape to an orange._"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/26/royal-society-exhibition-shape-of-the-earth

#News #Science #History #HistSci #France #Europe #C18th #18thCentury #UnitedKingdom #UK #Britain @science

@Silversalty @economics Do you mean it is 'gamed'?

<strong>Ancient Egyptian scribes and specific skeletal occupational risk markers (Abusir, Old Kingdom)</strong>

"_Our research reveals that remaining in a cross-legged sitting or kneeling position for extended periods, and the repetitive tasks related to writing and the adjusting of the rush pens during scribal activity, caused the extreme overloading of the jaw, neck and shoulder regions._"

Brukner Havelková, P., Dulíková, V., Bejdová, Š. et al. Ancient Egyptian scribes and specific skeletal occupational risk markers (Abusir, Old Kingdom). Sci Rep 14, 13317 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-63549-z

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Science #Genetics #Ancient #Egypt #Writing #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons @anthropology

@richardtol @energyecon So true and not limited to only energy costs.

<strong>The problem with long term investments</strong>

"_If, in 1970, you invested $100 in a fund tracking the S&P index, then by 2023 the investment would have grown to $22,000, far more than it would have in other assets such as real estate or government and corporate bonds. Case closed, right? Put your money into an index fund and simply leave it there._"

https://blog.datawrapper.de/long-term-investments/

#Data #DataViz #Chart #Graph #Investment #Finance #Business #Economics #Economy @economics

<strong>How To Think Like a Philosopher</strong>

"_Throughout history, philosophers have tackled a number of questions, but on the side they have provided something almost as valuable - an implicit guide on how to think like some of the brightest minds in history. And that is what we shall be exploring today._"

🎥 #Video length: twenty five minutes and forty one seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghQVwjXhZ2Y

#Philosophy @philosophy

<strong>Finance Theory I</strong>

"_Topics include functions of capital markets and financial intermediaries, asset valuation, fixed-income securities, common stocks, capital budgeting, diversification and portfolio selection, equilibrium pricing of risky assets, the theory of efficient markets, and an introduction to derivatives and options._"

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-401-finance-theory-i-fall-2008/

#Finance #Business #Economics #MIT #OpenCourseWare #Course #OpenCourse #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics

<strong>The Invisible Workers Behind AI: Exposing Underpaid Tech Labor</strong>

"_Meet the invisible workforce behind tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Uber. These underpaid and disposable workers label images, moderate content, and train AI systems, often earning less than minimum wage. Their work is essential yet remains in the shadows, unacknowledged by the companies that depend on them._"

🎥#Video length: fifty two minutes and forty one seconds.

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

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #Tech #Documentary #Internet #Corporations #Labour #Labor @ai

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @adredish I had a toot appear in my timeline yesterday from an account I do not follow. It did not have any hashtag associated with it nor was it boosted by an account I follow.

<strong>Arabic Loanwords in Hebrew</strong>

"_The influence of Arabic, both spoken (in innumerable dialects, including those spoken by Jews) and written, took place in the mediaeval and modern periods of Hebrew; its vocabulary forms more than half of the Hebrew lexicon, according to the renowned dictionary of Abraham Even-Shoshan (Rosenstein, 1906–1984). The approximately 8,000 lexical items in the Bible are not sufficient to entirely meet the needs of either a written language or a spoken one._"

Shehadeh, H. (2011) “Arabic Loanwords in Hebrew”, Studia Orientalia Electronica, 111, pp. 327–344. Available at: https://journal.fi/store/article/view/9316 (Accessed: 25June2024).

#OpenAccess #OA #PeerReview #Language #Languages #Linguistics #Arabic #Hebrew #Loanwords #Levant #MiddleEast #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics

@Nonya_Bidniss More than irritation, it may be a case of clicking on a link that leads to a malicious site. If there is no way to tell what the link is pointing to, I avoid clicking.

@Nonya_Bidniss In complete agreement. I also found it strange when I first started using Mastodon that links would be posted without any explanation.