Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🇹🇷 **‘World’s oldest calendar’ found carved onto ancient monument**
"_The timekeeping system, unearthed at the Gobekli Tepe site in mountains of Anatolia in Turkey, suggests people were accurately recording dates 10,000 years before it was documented in Greece in 150 BC._"
#News #Science #Ancient #Anatolia #Turkey #Calender @science
🔴 **Do large language models have a legal duty to tell the truth?**
"_We argue that LLM providers should be required to mitigate careless speech and better align their models with truth through open, democratic processes. We define careless speech against ‘ground truth’ in LLMs and related risks including hallucinations, misinformation and disinformation._"
Wachter Sandra, Mittelstadt Brent and Russell Chris. 2024 Do large language models have a legal duty to tell the truth?. R. Soc. Open Sci. 11: 240197. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240197.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Truth #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Misinformation #Disinformation #Philosophy #LLMS #LargeLanguageModels #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai @philosophy
🔴 🏴 🇯🇵 📖 **The real-life English sailor of the TV series “Shogun”**
"_Frederik Cryns bases his book, In the Service of the Shogun, on primary historical sources—and it’s as exciting as the fictional retelling. It’s the true story of Shogun._"
🔗 https://malwarwickonbooks.com/true-story-of-shogun/
#EarlyModern #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Europe #Japan #Asia #Shogun #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @earlymodern @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 **Scientists solve mystery of some of Earth’s most dramatic landscapes**
"_Experts have found that powerful waves deep within the Earth triggered when tectonic plates broke apart have caused continents to force the land up, creating giant plateaus._"
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/earth-mantel-space-crust-mystery-b2592685.html
🔴 🎥 **Germanic vs German**
"_A historical linguist who deals with Germanic languages explains why "Germanic" and "German" mean very different things and how this confusing situation arose in the first place._"
#Video length: eleven minutes and eleven seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/WcgnWN49nac
#Germanic #German #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
🔴 🇦🇺 **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
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If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
🔴 🇺🇸 **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._"
#Ancient #Babylonia #History #Histodon #Histodons #MiddleEast #Asia #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
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"‘Gem’ of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers
The proof creates stricter limits on potential exceptions to the famous Riemann hypothesis, and stands to offer many other insights into how primes behave."
by Jordana Cepelewicz (reprinting Nico Roper of Quanta Magazine, linked at top and bottom)
Aug 4, 2024 7:00 AM
https://www.wired.com/story/sensational-proof-delivers-new-insights-into-prime-numbers/
🔴 **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
@rasmusfleischer Is there any particular reason for that?
🔴 **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
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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