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Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🔴 📓 🎥 How The Notebook Changed the Entire World Forever w/Roland Allen
"In episode 275 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by book publisher and notebook historian, Roland Allen, to discuss his brand new book, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper."
#Video length: one hour and one minute.
🔴 Too many numbers and worse word choice: Why readers find data-driven news articles produced with automation harder to understand
"Overall, this study showed that although news stories produced with automation were perceived equally to those produced without regarding sentence and paragraph length and writing style, they were evaluated as less comprehensible overall and with regard to the presentation of numbers and statistics."
Thäsler-Kordonouri, S., Thurman, N., Schwertberger, U., & Stalph, F. (2024). Too many numbers and worse word choice: Why readers find data-driven news articles produced with automation harder to understand. Journalism, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241262204.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Journalism #Data #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #News #Media #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai @journalism
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🧪Happy #MoleDay !
An unofficial holiday celebrated among chemistry enthusiasts on October 23 between 6:02 a.m. and 6:02 p.m. ,making the date 6:02 10/23
This is Amedeo Avogadro's number, which is approximately 6.02×1023 (one mole (mol) of substance).
🔴 🇺🇿 🎥 Uncovering a lost mountain metropolis
"The finding of these urban centres, called Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, at such high altitudes, may mean that highland areas may have played a more important role in medieval trade than previously thought."
#Video length: eight minutes and one second.
🔗 https://youtu.be/EUlKEJfEvgU
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Uzbekistan #CentralAsia #Asia @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 Language at a glance: How our brains grasp linguistic structure from parallel visual input
"Our results indicate that the left temporal cortex performs a rough sketch of syntactic structure starting as early as 125 ms after stimulus onset. This is faster than most estimates of even single-word visual perception (14), suggesting that the speed arises specifically from the parallel availability of the full sentence, with each word supporting the recognition of the other ones. This allows for rapid matching of the stimulus to top-down knowledge of sentence structure. Just like you can recognize a cup very quickly if you lay your full hand on it, feeling many parts simultaneously (15), you are able to understand a sentence very quickly if you lay your eyes on the full sentence all at once."
Jacqueline Fallon, Liina Pylkkänen, Language at a glance: How our brains grasp linguistic structure from parallel visual input. Sci. Adv. 10, eadr9951 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr9951
#OpenAccess #Research #Article #DOI #Neuroscience #Brain #Language #Psychology #Science #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @psychology
🔴 📖 Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire
"...brings together scholars of Achaemenid history, literature and religion, Iranian linguistics, historians of the Ancient Near East, archeologists, biblical scholars and Semiticists. The goal is to better understand the interchange of ideas, expressions and concepts as well as the experience of historical events between Yahwists and the empire that ruled over them for over two centuries."
Barnea, G. and Kratz, R. 2024. Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire: Professor Shaul Shaked in Memoriam. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111018638.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Ancient #NearEast #Religion #Judaism #Theology #Persia #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (91)
@geirertzgaard @bookstodon One of the motives that I have for starting a blog about the books that I have read is to solidify my understanding of themes and help to retain the information that I have previously read.
@holothuroid Thank for this suggestion. After looking at a few different instances 'wordsmith.social' took my fancy unfortunately registration is currently closed.
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@bibliolater Considering you are already on the fediverse and possibly care about open software and federation, maybe writefreely?
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The word 'choice' comes from Old French 'chois', but it has an /oi/ diphthong while modern French 'choix' has /wa/.
Is English /oi/ due to spelling pronunciation? No!
English 'choice' is closer to the Old French pronunciation than French 'choix' itself is.
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@viq @ianhopkinson @bookstodon Thank you for the recommendation.
🔴 🎥 New largest prime number found! See all 41,024,320 digits.
#Video length: ten minutes and thirteen seconds.
@ianhopkinson @bookstodon Thank you for the information.
@ianhopkinson @bookstodon Thank you for commenting. Apart from the Wordpress hosting price are there any other associated costs?
🔴 🧠 The hidden role of air pollution in cognitive decline
"PM2.5 are fine airborne particles small enough to enter the lungs and even the bloodstream, posing significant health risks. Long-term exposure has been linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, resulting in air pollution being listed as one of the modifiable risk factors in the recent report of the Lancet commision on dementia prevention, intervention and care. However, the mechanisms through which PM2.5 affects cognitive function remain poorly understood."
🔗 https://www.uni.lu/lcsb-en/news/hidden-role-of-air-pollution-in-cognitive-decline/
🔴 ❓ 📚 I am considering starting a blog where I will post reviews of books that I have read. Do you think the endeavour is advisable? If the answer to that question is yes, what platform do you think is the best to use?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #AmReading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Thad Zajdowicz from Altadena, California, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Book_review_(12213308404).jpg
@ppappas @bookstodon Thank you for the recommendation.
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No low-fertility country has ever raised its fertility rate as much as Somalia’s has fallen in the last quarter century.
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/pronatalisms-tough-math/
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph 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.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
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Joined Nov 2022
