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<strong>Olmsted, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler</strong>

"_Kathryn Olmsted’s work provides a timely and incisive analysis of four American and two British press lords, united in their isolationism, appeasement towards fascism, and proclivity to use their media apparatus and larger-than-life personalities to forcefully promote their politics._"

journalism-history.org/2023/05

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@Silversalty @ehmatthes @economics

I respect your humility regarding expertise.

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<strong>Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia</strong>

"_The directly dated cut-marked bones of ungulates indicate the presence of AMHs in inland Iberia during the early and mid-Upper Paleolithic. The paleoecological inferences suggest that human populations occupied Malia when climatic and ecological conditions were not particularly severe in terms of aridity and temperature._"

Nohemi Sala et al., Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia. Sci. Adv.10, eado3807 (2024). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado3807

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An even more relevant question in 2024.

<strong>2007: What's the point of FACEBOOK? | BBC Breakfast | Retro Tech | BBC Archive</strong>

"_What exactly is social media, what is it for, and why are people using it?_"

🎥 length: five minutes and nineteen seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=91af2UUSec

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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?_"

historytoday.com/archive/histo

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<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._"

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n13/er

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

404 page not found
We're sorry, the page you are looking for has slipped into a black hole!

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@seindal @histodon @histodons

Thank you for commenting. Yes, it is informative.

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

shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-

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<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._"

theguardian.com/science/articl

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

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@bibliolater @economics
The Index itself is designed to always appear to be going 'up.' Stocks selected for the Index that have stopped improving are replaced with better performing ones. The rare times the Index drops are usually economic disasters. Slow down turns have less effect.
It's purpose is to get people to 'invest' seeing only the 'winners.'

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Peter Gleick

Huge deal right now on my book, The Three Ages of Water, over at Amazon (which probably means zero royalties for the author, but hey...).

amazon.com/Three-Ages-Water-Pr

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<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). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-635

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

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<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._"

blog.datawrapper.de/long-term-

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<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._"

🎥 length: twenty five minutes and forty one seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=ghQVwjXhZ2

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<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._"

ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-401-fin

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<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._"

🎥 length: fifty two minutes and forty one seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=VPSZFUiEll

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Alberto Cottica

"In sharp contrast, a fundamentally different economics is needed for widespread sustainability transitions based on agroecology, circular economy models, and re-territorialised food systems."

fao.org/family-farming/detail/

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