Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **The Story of British Pathé – Around the World**
"_A fascinating introduction to the history of the pioneering newsreel company British Pathé, which documented almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain and around the world in the 20th century._"
#Video length: fifty nine minutes and sixteen seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/eOqy744ViSc
#Documentary #History #Histodon #Histodons #BritishPathé #News #Archives #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Britain #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 🗺️ 🇳🇴 🎥 **See Historical Maps in Oslo**
"_Anders Kvernberg (National Library of Oslo, nb.no) shows us some of the amazing historical maps housed at the National Library's Maps Center._"
#Video length: twenty three minutes and twenty nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/jmnMrOPoNrI
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Map #Maps #Cartography #Archives #Library #Oslo #Norway #Scandinavia #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 🖥️ **The smell of paper or the shine of a screen? Students’ reading comprehension, text processing, and attitudes when reading on paper and screen**
"_Our results reveal that, overall, the students performed better when reading on paper compared to on screen, which parallels existing findings highlighted in our literature review. Yet, examining single-student performance revealed that some performed equally well across both modes, and one student comprehended better with screen reading._"
Jensen, R.E., Roe, A. and Blikstad-Balas, M. (2024) 'The smell of paper or the shine of a screen? Students’ reading comprehension, text processing, and attitudes when reading on paper and screen,' Computers & Education, 219, p. 105107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2024.105107.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Education #Reading #Comprehension #Computers #Screens #Tech #Technology #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics @bookstodon
@thekitmalone @idoubtit Did not know that a website address could be added to filters. Thank you.
🔴 📖 **Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich**
"_Evans devotes an incisive chapter to each of the rogues’ gallery of Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, von Ribbentrop and to notorious antisemites such as Ley, Streicher and Heydrich. It is however even more interesting to read about lesser figures who portrayed themselves after 1945 as honourable, principled and patriotic and far from being deranged and perverted._"
🔗 https://colinshindler.co.uk/hitlers-people/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Nazi #Germany #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇪🇸 **Archaeologists unearth ‘hidden empire’ after discovering long-lost Roman city**
"_Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered a trove of ancient Roman settlements that could point to the existence of a “hidden empire” previously unknown to historians._"
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology-roman-city-spain-cadiz-b2596838.html
#News #History #Histodon #Histodons #Roman #Empire #Imperium #Spain #Europe #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 **How spammers and scammers leverage AI-generated images on Facebook for audience growth**
"_We show that spammers and scammers—seemingly motivated by profit or clout, not ideology—are already using AI-generated images to gain significant traction on Facebook._"
#Spam #Scam #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Images #Facebook #SocialMedia @ai
🔴 🎥 **Mpox: First case of contagious variant outside Africa reported**
"_The disease - previously known as monkeypox - has been largely contained in the Democratic Republic of Congo where it's endemic. It now appears to have spread through Eastern Africa and into Scandinavia._"
#Video length: seven minutes and forty seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/W-NHWDg5yxk
#Mpox #DRC #Sweden #Europe #Africa #Science #Medicine #Health #Emergency #Epidemiology @science
🔴 💧 **Mapping safe drinking water use in low- and middle-income countries**
_Our results emphasize that access to an improved drinking water source does not always provide safe drinking water as <u>almost half of the LMIC populations (48%) were estimated to be exposed to fecal contamination in their primary drinking water source</u>. Our predictions show that more than half of the populations of Oceania, sub–Saharan Africa, southeastern Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean may be exposed to contaminated drinking water (fig. S9)._
Esther E. Greenwood et al., Mapping safe drinking water use in low- and middle-income countries. Science 385, 784-790 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh9578
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Water #Drinking #Environment #Health #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
🔴 **Fake memories: A meta-analysis on the effect of fake news on the creation of false memories and false beliefs**
"_We conducted a meta-analysis to obtain an estimate of the average rate of false memories elicited by fake news. Thirteen articles were included in the final analysis, revealing that nearly 40% and 60% of the participants reported at least one false memory and belief (respectively) after fake news exposure, while each participant remembered or believed 22% of the total number of fake news presented._"
Schincariol, A. et al. (2024) ‘Fake memories: A meta-analysis on the effect of fake news on the creation of false memories and false beliefs’, Memory, Mind & Media, 3, p. e17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.14.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #FakeNews #Misinformation #Memory #Belief #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
🔴 🌡️ **What is the hottest temperature humans can survive? These labs are redefining the limit**
"_As climate change heats the Earth, blistering days have become a regular feature of weather reports worldwide. Last month, the record for the world’s hottest day was broken twice, and the United Nations made a global call for action on extreme heat, to help vulnerable people, workers and economies to cope using science. Around 70% of the global workforce — 2.4 billion people — are now at high risk of extreme heat, it said._"
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02422-5
#Science #News #DOI #Heat #Climate #ClimateChange @science @climatechange
🔴 **Mystery behind 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets predicting doom solved**
"_The text is the oldest archaeological record of lunar eclipse omens and shows how ancient astrologers made predictions about disasters threatening the Mesopotamian civilisation by analysing celestial phenomena._"
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #HIstory #Histodon #Histodons #Mesopotamia #Asia @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **Clouds and climate change**
"_Meet cloud scientist Edward Gryspeerdt and find out why clouds aren't just fluffy shapes in the sky ⛅_"
#Video length: seven minutes and six seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/A9xAG601dG4
#Water #Ships #Travel #Physics #Clouds #Science #Climate #ClimateChange @physics @climatechange @science
🔴 **How protectionism can help developing countries unlock their economic potential**
"_In fact, the most protectionist country throughout history is the US. It had the world’s highest average tariff rates on imported manufactures throughout the 1800s, a period that saw the country transform into a global economic powerhouse._"
#Business #Trade #Economics #Protectionism #Tarrifs @economics
🔴 **Who's the Greatest Actor in Movie History? A Statistical Analysis**
"_We'll deconstruct various facets of movie celebrity before pinpointing a handful of consensus selections. Will this exercise produce something authoritative? Who knows (and who knows what it means to be an authority)? Will we better understand different expressions of cinematic greatness while discussing some wonderful movies? Absolutely._"
🔗 https://www.statsignificant.com/p/whos-the-greatest-actor-in-movie
#Data #Statistics #Analysis #History #Movies #Cinema #Actors
🔴 🎥 **The Texas Preacher Who Used God to Steal**
"_In Tarrant County, Texas, an elderly man and former preacher advertised himself as “The Money Doctor”. He exploited the trust of his peers, skillfully hiding deceptive financial practices under a cloak of religious virtue. Bloomberg Investigates unveils the intimate story of those whose lives were destroyed by this $38 million dollar Ponzi scheme._"
#Video length: thirty one minutes and fifty three seconds.
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🔴 **How bread dough gave rise to civilisation**
"_A major international study has explained how bread wheat helped to transform the ancient world on its path to becoming the iconic crop that today sustains a global population of eight billion._"
🔗 https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/how-bread-dough-gave-rise-to-civilisation/
#Ancient #Wheat #Bread #Genetics #DNA #Research #Study #Science @science
🔴 📰 🎥 **Paleography and the Book Lecture “Where Did Newspaper Typeface Come From?”**
"_UChicago visiting scholar David Ganz discussed how influential scripts such as Caroline minuscule and Italian Humanistic served as models for typefaces like Times New Roman._"
#Video length: one hour and twenty one minutes.
🔗 https://youtu.be/hnTKDv0vdz0
#Lecture #Paleography #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Script #History #Histodon #Histodons #Typeface #Fonts #Typography #Newspaper #TimesNewRoman @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
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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Joined Nov 2022
