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**Why Alexander the Great really was better than the average imperialist conqueror**

"_Kousser brings us into the story in time for the infamous burning of Persepolis, jewel of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Alexander’s consolidation of power, conquest of Asia Minor and founding of Alexandria were all behind him at this point. When he burned Persepolis, he had just returned from Egypt, where he had proclaimed himself the son of a god._"

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-07-13/alexander-the-great-rachel-kousser-alexander-at-the-end-of-the-world-review

#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Imperialism #Empire #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

**From willow bark to aspirin: The evolution of modern medicine, through the rise and fall of ancient and medieval empires**

"_There is a lot to learn from ancient medical treatises and scholars, not to only discover potential novel treatments, but also to learn the history of modern medicine, and appreciate the work that has been done thousands of years ago._"

https://oxsci.org/from-willow-bark-to-aspirin-the-evolution-of-modern-medicine-through-the-rise-and-fall-of-ancient-and-medieval-empires/

#Ancient #History #Medicine #Science #HistSci @science

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📚 **Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698**

"_Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire._"

https://www.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70131-4

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #EarlyModern #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Colonialism #Imperialism #Empire #Religion #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @religion @bookstodon (86)

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 **Revealed: How mass tourism helped England after the Black Death**

"_The new investigations into the management and economics of the medieval pilgrimage industry has revealed that each major pilgrimage centre (often cathedrals) would seek to market their ‘pilgrimage offer’ only around four times a year - so as to deliberately concentrate mass tourism in their specific town into a manageable series of very short seasons._

_This maximised efficiency and profit, while minimising mass tourism’s impact on normal ecclesiastical life._"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/black-death-tourism-middle-ages-b2578715.html

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #England #Europe #Tourism #Plague @histodon @histodons @medievodons

**The most ancient human genome yet has been sequenced—and it’s a Denisovan’s**

"_200,000-year-old DNA from Siberian cave shows our elusive, extinct cousins mated repeatedly with Neanderthals_"

https://www.science.org/content/article/most-ancient-human-genome-yet-has-been-sequenced-and-it-s-denisovan

#News #Science #Genome #Denisovans #Neanderthals #Ancient #DNA @science

**Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy**

"_We also propose and find evidence via both measurement (study 2A) and manipulation (via short video interventions; studies 2B and 2C) for the role of each dimension of scientific literacy—scientific knowledge and reasoning—and their impact on evidence evaluation and conspiracy beliefs._"

Nathan Allred, Lisa E Bolton, Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy, Journal of Consumer Research, 2024;, ucae024, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae024

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Conspiracy #Science #Education #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

**Peak global population and other key findings from the 2024 UN World Population Prospects**

"_Although the global population is expected to increase for many more decades, the population growth rate is slowing rapidly._

_This is driven by a dramatic reduction in fertility rates, which measure the average number of children per woman. The global fertility rate has more than halved since the 1960s, from over 5 children per woman to 2.3._"

Hannah Ritchie and Lucas Rodés-Guirao (2024) - “Peak global population and other key findings from the 2024 UN World Population Prospects” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/un-population-2024-revision' [Online Resource]

#Data #DataViz #World #Human #Population #Science #Statistics #Demography #Demographics

**Archaeologists find site of epic clash between Spartacus and Roman army**

"_Archaeologists have uncovered a stone wall in an Italian forest that was used by the Roman army during an epic “clash” against slave revolt leader and gladiator Spartacus and his men._"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/spartacus-romans-epic-clash-site-b2578528.html

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Roman #Romans #Empire #Spartacus @histodon @histodons @archaeodons

🎥 **Callan Davies on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor**

#Video length: four minutes and forty seven seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv164t8ZH44

#Read #Reading #Shakespeare #Literature #Book #Books #Bookstodon @literature @bookstodon

🎥**This Video is About Electroadhesion.**

"_..a new discovery called “hard-soft electroadhesion” enables chemists to stick almost any hydrogel to almost any metal, using nothing but an electric current._"

#Video length: fourteen minutes and four seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62BjIysFDhQ

#Chemistry #Science #Electroadhesion @science @chemistry

**How Has Music Changed Since the 1950s? A Statistical Analysis**

"_The Michigan-based funk band Vulfpeck releases Sleepify, a ten-track album devoid of audible sound. Each track runs 30 seconds long and consists solely of silence. Sleepify is distributed via Spotify, where the band encourages fans to play the album on a loop while they sleep._"

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/how-has-music-changed-since-the-1950s-62a

#Music #Statistics #Data

Timár, Gábor, and Eszter Kiss. 2024. "Web Publication of Schmitt’s Map of Southern Germany (1797)—The Projection of the Map Based on Archival Documents and Geospatial Analysis" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 13, no. 6: 207. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13060207

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Map #Maps #Cartography #Germany #Europe

#Question: should one use a #hashtag or multiple #hashtags in a reply to a #toot?

#AskFedi #AskMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse

**Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers**

"_These results demonstrate that the Neolithic plague was prevalent and potentially lethal. Together with the fact that these plague cases are found in one of the last populations with Neolithic Farmer ancestry observed in Scandinavia, we believe that plague could have been a contributing factor to the Neolithic decline._"

Seersholm, F.V., Sjögren, KG., Koelman, J. et al. Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07651-2

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Epidemiology #PopulationGenetics #Population #Genetics #Science #Plague #Neolithic #Biology #History #Scandinavia #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @science @biology

Earlier today I watched a panel #discussion on #television. The topic of concern is not important; however, what is important is the obstinacy of the host and the participants. Is there an all encompassing human imperative to dissemble one's feelings and the truth whilst trying to win a #television argument?