Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org

🔴 🇦🇺 **Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger**

"_Climate model analysis confirms that human influence on the climate system is responsible for the rapid warming in recent decades. This attribution, together with the recent ocean temperature extremes, post-1900 warming trend and observed mass coral bleaching, shows that the existential threat to the GBR ecosystem from anthropogenic climate change is now realized._"

Henley, B.J., McGregor, H.V., King, A.D. et al. Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger. Nature 632, 320–326 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07672-x

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Palaeoclimate #Ocean #GreatBarrierReef #Australia #Academia #Academic #Academic @science @climatechange @environment

🔴 🇺🇸 **Racial Tropes in the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: A Computational Text Analysis**

"_Across several dimensions and using multiple measures, we show that material crafted for top leaders in the United States was more likely to use analogical and non-analogical expressions of immaturity, animal-like qualities, belligerence, and irrationality when describing events in the Global South, newly independent states, and for some regions._"

Carson, A., Min, E. and Van Nuys, M. (2024) ‘Racial Tropes in the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: A Computational Text Analysis’, International Organization, pp. 1–35. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818324000146.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Racism #Race #Bureaucracy #ForeignPolicy #Data #MachineLearning #Bias #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #PoliticalScience #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience

🔴 🇺🇸 **The Shortcomings of Height in Politics**

"_Why is height a focal point for some politicians? An anthropologist explores the significance of height—explaining how cultural perceptions influence and distort political dynamics in the U.S._"

🔗 https://www.sapiens.org/biology/height-politicians-attitudes-stereotypes/

#Anthropology #Culture #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @anthropology

🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 **Eisenhower Gets Snappy (1957)**

"_Eisenhower angered by golf query_"

#Video length: one minute and fourteen seconds.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOShyunJS10

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archive #Eisenhower #Golf #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #USPol @histodon @histodons

🔴 📖 **Daily Life in Ancient Babylonia: Insights from the Temple of Ishtar**

"_The tablets reveal a vibrant picture, illuminating the lives of the people who lived and worked within the temple walls. From accounting and logistics to addressing personal dramas, these tiny, dried mud tablets uncover a complex web of bureaucracy, craftsmanship, and personal stories that bring the ancient world to life in a uniquely vivid way._"

🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/08/06/daily-life-in-ancient-babylonia-insights-from-the-temple-of-ishtar/

#Ancient #Babylonia #History #Histodon #Histodons #MiddleEast #Asia #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

🔴 **Multi-proxy bioarchaeological analysis of skeletal remains shows genetic discontinuity in a Medieval Sicilian community**

"_Isotopic analyses indicated individuals enjoyed a similar diet with little evidence for extensive mobility, however, the genetic analyses indicate that the Muslim and Christian individuals were not only separated by the location of their burials but also by their genetic heritage with no evidence of kinship between the two communities._"

Monnereau, A. et al. (2024) 'Multi-proxy bioarchaeological analysis of skeletal remains shows genetic discontinuity in a Medieval Sicilian community,' Royal Society Open Science, 11(7). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240436.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Ancient #DNA #Science #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Sicily #Sicilian #Medieval #MiddleAges #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons

🔴 **What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?**

"_Figuring out the easiest language to learn is not a simple process, but it yields a result that is certainly surprising!_"

Beyer, Greg. "What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-easiest-language-to-learn/ (accessed August 4, 2024).

#Education #Learning #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics

🔴 **‘Fire clouds’ from super-hot wildfires are on the rise as Earth warms**

"_Intense blazes burning in the United States and Canada are creating their own thunderstorms, which can spark more fires._"

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02530-2

#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Wildfires #Environment @climatechange

🔴 📖 **Slow productivity worked for Marie Curie — here’s why you should adopt it, too**

"_Slow Productivity is a call to arms to reject the performative busyness of the modern workplace, where frequent virtual meetings and long email chains sap so much of workers’ attention. One exhausted postdoctoral researcher interviewed by Newport defined productivity, as it is currently measured in academia, as “ working all the time ”._"

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02540-0

#Careers #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

@pg1958 @linguistics No more questions, thank you for the clarification.

🔴 **Did an ancient human relative really bury its dead?**

"_Critics challenge explosive claim about Homo naledi, with implications for both human evolution and new models of scientific publishing_"

🔗 https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-human-relative-really-bury-dead

#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Science #Evolution @archaeodons @science

🔴 🎥 **How Do You Pronounce KAMALA?**

#Video length: thirteen minutes and fifty one seconds.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NihLE-wh0xc

#Kamala #Harris #KamalaHarris #Pronunciation #Linguistics @linguistics

🔴 📖 **Books That Shook the Business World: The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt**

"_One way to enter Arendt’s thought is to read the final chapter of The Human Condition after the prologue. There she argues that modernity’s biggest conquest has been for technology to emancipate humanity from the “drudgery of life”. But this has turned into our biggest trap, since we have filled it with mindless consumption._"

🔗 https://theconversation.com/books-that-shook-the-business-world-the-human-condition-by-hannah-arendt-235231

#Tech #Technology #HannahArendt #Business #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 🇨🇳 **The hidden costs of inflation: A critical analysis of industrial development and environmental consequences**

"_As the demand for energy continues to grow, particularly in developing countries, the use of fossil fuels is likely to increase, leading to further increases in CO2 emissions. China is the world’s largest emitter of CO2 emissions, accounting for over a quarter of global emissions. FP, IG, and GNE are identified as key drivers of the increase in CO2 emissions in China. CO2 emissions increase global temperatures, precipitation patterns, extreme weather events, and ocean levels. There is a need to shift towards cleaner and more sustainable sources of energy, such as renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and hydropower._"

Zheng D, Addas A, Waseem LA, Asad Naqvi SA, Ahmad M, et al. (2024) The hidden costs of inflation: A critical analysis of industrial development and environmental consequences. PLOS ONE 19(8): e0297413. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297413.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #PeerReviewed #DOI #Pollution #Environment #Economics #Finance #Industry #Inflation #Fertilizers #Energy #FossilFuels #China #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics