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Carl Zimmer

How did the rose get its thorns? For starters, they're prickles, not thorns. And it turns out that roses and lots of other plants have harnessed the same gene to grow them. Here's my evo-devo story nyti.ms/3yjFPr7

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🔴 📖 **Chapter 7 Constructing Early Anglo-Saxon Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles**

"_The combination of mythological arrival and conquest annals with the strategic inclusion of genealogies allow the annals as a whole to present all the kingdoms and sub-kingdoms of Britannia as important members of a larger family. They show the supremacy of the Germanic incomers over the native Britons, and they focus on the House of Wessex almost from the outset, showing the West Saxons to be the natural leaders of this group._"

Konshuh, C. (2020). Chapter 7 Constructing Early Anglo-Saxon Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. In The Land of the English Kin, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004421899_ [Accessed 01 August 2024]

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Khurram Wadee ✅

#Antarctic #temperatures rise 10C above average in near record #heatwave | #Antarctica | The Guardian

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🔴 🗺️ **Germanic Tribes in the Roman Imperial Period**

"_Germanic Tribal World of the Provinical Roman Period between 50 BC to 300 AD_"

attribution: Arch.-Stud. A.P., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

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🔴 🇺🇸 **How the origins of America’s immigrants have changed since 1850**

"_Mirroring the national trend, the origins of immigrants living in each state have changed dramatically in the past century. In 1920, the largest immigrant groups in 29 states were born in Germany, Italy or Canada. And only six states had the same largest origin group in 2022 that they did in 1920: Arizona, New Mexico and Texas (all from Mexico) and Maine, Montana and Vermont (from Canada)._"

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🔴 📖 🎙 **Podcast with Roger Crowley, author of “Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World”**

"_Roger Crowley, in his new book Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World, covers six decades of exploration, conflict and conquest, starting from the Portuguese capture of Malacca in 1511 to the Spanish founding of Manila and the start of the galleon trade in 1571._"

asianreviewofbooks.com/content

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🔴 🇺🇸 **"Asylum"**

"_I have no idea whether Trump is confused about the difference between "political asylum" and "insane asylum", or just expects or hopes that his audience will be. But since this is Language Log and not Political Psychiatry Log, let's look into the usage history and the deeper etymology._"

languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

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🔴 📖 **The Diagrammatics of 'Race' Visualizing Human Relatedness in the History of Physical, Evolutionary, and Genetic Anthropology, ca. 1770-2020**

"_The Diagrammatics of 'Race' concentrates on Western projects from the late 1700s into the present to diagrammatically define humanity, subdividing and ordering it, including the concomitant endeavors to acquire representative samples―bones, blood, or DNA―from all over the world._"

doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0396

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🔴 **Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement**

"_We contend that the spread of misinformation—and in particular willful disinformation—is demonstrably harmful to public health, evidence-informed policymaking, and democratic processes. We also show that disinformation and outright lies can often be identified and differ from good-faith political contestation._"

Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U.K.H., Cook, J. et al. Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 986 (2024). doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-035

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🔴 🎥 **This State's Flag is Illegal**

length: fifty nine seconds.

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🔴 🎙 **On Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’**

"_Adrian Moore joins Malin Hay to discuss what Wittgenstein hoped to achieve with the only work he published in his lifetime and to consider how much we should trust his assertion that everything it contains is nonsensical._"

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🔴 🇩🇪 🎥 **Why an AfD Politician Is Accused of 'Whitewashing' Nazi Crimes ¦ Germany's Enemy Within ¦ FRONTLINE**

"_Björn Höcke, of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, is on the brink of a potential state election victory. He has criticized how Germany remembers the Holocaust and been fined for using a Nazi slogan._"

length: four minutes and fifty seconds.

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🔴 🇺🇸 **Analyzing Support for U.S. Presidential Candidates in Twitter Polls**

"_To enhance our understanding of social polls, we examine nearly two thousand Twitter polls gauging support for U.S. presidential candidates during the 2016 and 2020 election campaigns._"

Scarano, S. (2024) “Analyzing Support for U.S. Presidential Candidates in Twitter Polls”, Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media , 4. doi: doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2024.icws.

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Ulrike Hahn

@bibliolater @philosophy @bookstodon 👆anyone here interested in debate about LLMs, AI, and sentience might find chapters 15, 16, and 17 of interest #LLM #AI

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🔴 🎥 **Which Experts should we trust?**

"_Socrates sought to test the expertise of everyone around him: the bombastic know-it-alls, the bashful youths, the confident generals, those (including the enslaved) with unsuspected mathematical competence, the workaday artisans. Aristotle later explored the ways in which expert claims can be made credible to popular judgement._"

length: one minute.

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🔴 📖 **Two centuries ago, only 1 in 10 adults could read. Today, it’s almost 9 in 10**

"_That means more than 5 billion people can read and write today, compared to fewer than 100 million two centuries ago._"

ourworldindata.org/data-insigh

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🔴 📖 **‘The Edge of Sentience’ now available online!**

"_LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch has published his new book ‘The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI’ with Oxford University Press. The online version is available for free now!_"

lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2024

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🔴 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🎥 **Did A German General 'Save' Paris? The True Story of the 1944 Liberation**

"_What is the true story of the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Did a German general really save the city from destruction that was ordered by Hitler? In this video, we try and separate truth from historical fiction._"

length: fifteen minutes and thirty two seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=poqVkVK9C7

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