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@jemmesedi Thanks for the link.
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How about Georgia as an alternative to Times New Roman?
https://beetrootacademy.com/articles/why-using-times-new-roman-is-a-sin
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@bibliolater I wrote a whole blog post about my recommended Times New Roman alternatives, so that's a 'no' from me :)
https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2024/4/5/times-new-roman-alternatives-follow-up
@ameel Thank you for the link.
🔴 **Are you a #TimesNewRoman partisan?**
#Fonts #Typography #Typeface #Poll #Polls #Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon
🔴 **Historical and archaeogenomic identification of high-status Englishmen at Jamestown, Virginia**
"_Genomic analyses of the skeletons identify unexpected maternal relatedness as both carried the mitochondrial haplogroup H10e. In this unusual case, aDNA prompted further historical research that led to the discovery of illegitimacy in the West family, an aspect of identity omitted, likely intentionally, from genealogical records._"
Owsley, D.W. et al. (2024) ‘Historical and archaeogenomic identification of high-status Englishmen at Jamestown, Virginia’, Antiquity, pp. 1–15. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.75.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genealogy #History #Histodon #Histodons #Jamestown #Virginia #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Global Debt Hits a New High of $315 Trillion**
"_Today, the largest share of debt is held by non-financial corporations, at $94.1 trillion, while government borrowings follow closely behind at $91.4 trillion. Meanwhile, the financial sector holds $70.4 trillion in debt and households carry $59.1 trillion._"
🔗 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-debt-hits-a-new-high-of-315-trillion/
🔴 📖 🎥 **The Tragic Truth About Beautiful Books**
#Video length: eighteen minutes and nine minutes.
🔴 🇦🇹 🇩🇪 🎥 **Clickbait meets populism and extremism - TikTok and politics**
"_We show how right-wing populists use TikTok to spread their messages and shed light on the impact it has on the political landscape and on young people._"
#Video length: twenty eight minutes and twenty six seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/VeMhHtfe81s
#DW #Documentary #Politics #RightWing #Populism #Democracy #Clickbait #Tiktok #SocialMedia #Austria #Germany #Europe
🔴 **Transmission of social bias through observational learning**
"_Across six experiments, we demonstrated that group preferences can be acquired by merely observing the behavior of a prejudiced actor toward members of a group. This effect emerged despite observers’ lack of stereotype knowledge, unawareness of demonstrator preferences, the lack of actual group differences in players’ feedback, and the use of financial incentives for accuracy, suggesting that observational learning constitutes a potent and persistent mode of prejudice transmission._"
David T. Schultner et al., Transmission of social bias through observational learning. Sci. Adv.10, eadk2030 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk2030.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Psychology #Science #Neuroscience #Prejudice #Bias #Learning #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology @science
🔴 **Applying a transaction cost perspective to decode viking Scandinavia's earliest recorded value relation: insights from the forsa ring’s runic inscription**
"_The congruence in oxen valuation observed between Northern Sweden and 10th-century England is notably significant. It suggests the existence of a profoundly interwoven European institutional architecture of monetary relations that bridged considerable geographical expanses._"
Edvinsson, R. (2024) ‘Applying a transaction cost perspective to decode viking Scandinavia’s earliest recorded value relation: insights from the forsa ring’s runic inscription’, Scandinavian Economic History Review, pp. 1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2024.2378465.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Scandinavia #Europe #Economics #History #EconHist #Vikings #IronAge #Money #Runes #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics @econhist
@marklemley From the Sanskrit '_laksha_' [source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Lakh].
🔴 🇦🇺 **Cosmos magazine’s AI-generated articles are bad for trust in science**
"_Rolling out an AI experiment with a lack of transparency is at best ignorant, and at worst dangerous_"
#Opinion #Australia #Media #AI #ArtificialIntellignece #Science @ai @science
🔴 **What Was the First Written Language?**
"_Human beings have been speaking languages for hundreds of thousands of years, but it is only recently that written language systems have been used._"
Beyer, Greg. "What Was the First Written Language?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/what-was-the-first-written-language/ (accessed August 12, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Writing #Languages #Linguistics @histodon @histodons @linguistics
🔴 **“A year of record highs in an energy hungry world”, EI Statistical Review reveals**
"_Global fossil fuel consumption reached a record high, up 1.5% to 505 EJ (driven by coal up 1.6%, oil up 2% to above 100 million barrels for first time, while gas was flat). As a share of the overall mix they were at 81.5%, marginally down from 82% last year._
_Emissions from energy increased by 2%, exceeding 40 gigatonnes of CO2 for the first time._"
🔴 🇪🇺 **More than 47,000 people died in Europe last year due to heat, report says**
"_Researchers used death and temperature records from 35 European countries. They estimate that 47,690 died from causes related to high temperatures._
_Adjusting the data for population, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy and Spain were the countries with the highest mortality rates related to heat._"
#Weather #Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Health #Environment @climatechange
🔴 💵 **Wall Street banker bonuses forecast to rise 35% this year**
"_Fresh predictions suggest that staff across a range of financial firms – including hedge funds, asset managers and investment banks – will see payouts rise for the first time in two years. It follows a rebound in business confidence and market activity, with companies more willing to take risks amid easing inflation that has started to translate into lower borrowing costs._"
#News #Article #WallStreet #Banking #HedgeFund #StockMarket #Business #Finance #Corporations
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Photo of the Day
Change is opportunity dressed in new clothes.
The Civil War upended the business of cattle ranching.
During the War, while Texas ranchers were away fighting, their cattle herds scattered across the open range.
Their enslaved labor left.
And the market for beef changed.
Markets in the South collapsed, but demand for beef surged in the North.
https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-b91?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
@SteveClough Or if egotism were to become an Olympic sport.
@SteveClough According to the article some of the over 65's believed they could did if they "put their mind to it".
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