Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Delighted that our co-edited volume, Power & Authority in Internet Governance Return of the State?, is open access! For a free copy, see https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003008309/power-authority-internet-governance-blayne-haggart-natasha-tusikov-jan-aart-scholte?_gl=1*1y6ikgw*_gcl_au*MTQ1NTc4MzkxNC4xNzE3MzU4NDYy*_ga*MTk5NjIwNjMxNy4xNzE3MzU4NDYz*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTcyMjI3NzE2NC44LjEuMTcyMjI3NzIxNy43LjAuMA.. #data #internet #internetgovernance #power
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Mark Rosenfelder's 'Syntax Construction Kit' is an accessible introduction to some pretty difficult linguistics. If you want to get started with conlanging you should get his other books, but if you've been wondering what Noam Chomsky is famous for, this is the one!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6691284708
#linguistics #syntax #conlanging #conlangs #languageconstruction #languageinvention #worldbuilding #markrosenfelder #thesyntaxconstructionkit #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇳🇴 🎥 **"Norway" 1950 Scandinavia People & Industry Travelogue Film Oslo, Bergen**
"_Dudley Pictures Corporation presents, “This World of Ours: Norway” (1950) which is a black-and-white made for television short travelog film about the country of Norway. Captured by cinematographer Edwin E. Olsen, the film features footage of Norway’s rugged beauty from the fjords to valleys as well as scenes from the bustling cities of Oslo and Bergen._"
#Video length: nine minutes and three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiTs4h5DTso
#Europe #Scandinavia #Nordic #Norway #Oslo #Bergen #Travel #Travelogue #Travelog #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **The Full History Of How The Vikings Dominated Europe ¦ The Last Journey Of The Vikings ¦ Timeline**
"_Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name to Normandy along the way - before their Norman descendants seized the English throne at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. But what do we really know about them? By combining expert analysis with compelling drama, 'The Last Journey of the Vikings' tells a new and often surprising story about this complex people._"
#Video length: three hours and thirteen minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr3I-f7npAA
#Viking #Vikings #Europe #Scandinavia #History #Histodon #Histodons #Timeline #Documentary @histodon @histodons
As you correctly mentioned so does the article:
_Dictionaries do not determine the definitions of words, said Fiona McPherson, a lexicographer at the OED.._
It is not the dictionaries that set definitions.
🔴 **Analyses of Johannes Kepler's Sunspot Drawings in 1607: A Revised Scenario for the Solar Cycles in the Early 17th Century**
"_Here, we make use of Kepler's sunspot drawings and descriptive texts to identify his observational sites and time stamps. We have deprojected his sunspot drawings and compared the reported positions with our calculations of the inclination of the solar equator as seen from these sites at that time._"
Hayakawa, H. et al. (2024) 'Analyses of Johannes Kepler’s Sunspot Drawings in 1607: A revised scenario for the solar cycles in the early 17th century,' The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 970(2), p. L31. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad57c9.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Science #Astronomy #Sun #History #HistSci #Kepler #C17th #17thcentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @astronomy
@fsinn I wonder how many of the sixty percent will actually vote?
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Simulated reconstruction of July #Arctic sea ice thickness since 1901. Watch for the last 10 years or so...
Information about this data set is available at http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/piomas-20c/. Note that it is only updated through 2010 due to ERA-20C forcing.
🔴 **What is ‘nature’? Dictionaries urged to include humans in definition**
"_Currently, all English dictionaries define nature as an entity separate from and opposed to humans and human creations – a perspective campaigners say perpetuates humanity’s troubled relationship with the natural world._"
#Language #Lexicon #Dictionary #Biodiversity #Philosophy @philosophy
🔴 🎥 **"The Book" 1950's Bookmaking, Printing And Publishing. Educational Film**
"_The film portrays an author, who narrates the film, explaining the research of writing a book, and the process and responsibilities of publishing a book._"
#Video length: seventeen minutes and forty one seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdHDOrgZiBE
#History #Film #Writing #Publishing #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Education @bookstodon
A case of do as I say, not as I do?
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Visualizing All Of The World's Water
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/hf01-visualizing-all-of-the-worlds-water/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/how-much-water-there-earth <-- USGS’s ‘How Much Water Is There On The Earth?’
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#water #hydrology #water #waterresources #farming #agriculture #foodsecurity #visualisation #earth #proportions #percentages #sources #groundwater #watercycle
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"It is disgraceful to be unable to use our good things." Aristotle quote + interesting book ....
#Aristotle quote about #QOTO
(I mean a #quote on #Politics !)
I guess Aristotle understood how sterile things can get when so much 'could be good' or as isolated tools are very good but when regulated (divided) and restricted (rules) they are only 'good' mostly for money-making and taking tax % from all transactions... so towards centralizing power - not really much else as the main lead in life as people come and go and it's even more centrailsed...
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#Book I'm #reading (title below) #quotes Aristotle in the Preface
📚 Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy 👀
➡️ https://qoto.org/@bibliolater/111166976738638119
(it's #Free eBook #OpenAccess #Bookstodon #modern #philosophy #AttentionEconomy #Freedom):
@AnnaAnthro Hubris never ends well.
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The word 'fairy' is related to 'infantry' and 'professor'.
And that's not all: these words are also related to 'fate', 'fatal', 'fame', 'fable', and 'to confess'.
They all come from Latin words derived from a stem meaning "to speak".
Click the infographic to learn how:
🔴 🎥 **Norse Skaldic Poetry: How-To**
"_Looking at the characteristics of the most difficult and prestigious meter (poetry style) of the Old Norse skálds, dróttkvætt, and how it can be replicated in a modern language._"
#Video length: twenty four minuteds and eight seconds.
🔴 **All roads lead to (New) Rome: Byzantine astronomy and geography in a rapidly changing world**
"_This comprehensive review of Byzantine geographic achievements -- supported by a review of astronomical developments pertaining to position determination on Earth -- aims to demonstrate why and how, when Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453 and the Ottoman Empire commenced, Byzantine astronomers had become the central axis in an extensive network of Christians, Muslims and Jews._"
Richard, D.G. (2024) All roads lead to (New) Rome: Byzantine astronomy and geography in a rapidly changing world. https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16285v1.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #HistSci #Science #Geography #Byzantinum @histodon @histodons @geography
🔴 **In which countries do people drink the most alcohol?**
"_Romania tops the list of countries with the highest alcohol consumption per person, with Georgia, Czechia, Latvia, and Germany rounding out the top five. This is according to the global estimates made available by the World Health Organization (WHO), the latest data referring to 2019._"
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/in-which-countries-do-people-drink-the-most-alcohol
🔴 **Ex abrupto**
"_The Romans never articulated the idea that time is money, but the technique of exordium ex abrupto came as close to it as it could._"
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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