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🔴 🗺️ Digitization Complete for World-Renowned Franco Novacco Map Collection
"A large portion of the collection includes world maps of all sizes, ranging from functional to more experimental. One 1590 cordiform map, for example, places the heart-shaped world inside of a fool's cap, resulting in an unsettling visual commentary on previous conceptions of world geography."
🔗 https://www.newberry.org/news/digitization-complete-for-world-renowned-franco-novacco-map-collection
🔴 🇺🇸 American Fears 2024
"Sitting at #1 on our list of top fears, as it has for the last 9 years, is the fear of corrupt government officials. Nearly 2/3 of Americans fear that our government is run by corrupt officials."
🔗 https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/research-centers/babbie-center/survey-american-fears.aspx
#Academia #Research #Poll #Polls #Survey #Fears #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
🔴 📓 🎥 Analog vs. Digital Notes | Why Paper Notebooks Still Beat Phones, Tablets, & Laptops
#Video length: seventeen minutes and fifty seconds.
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For anyone who looks to Scandinavia as the social model they'd prefer to the (continuing) mid-Atlantic model (part European/part American) the UK currently tries (but often fails) to make work.... the key issue is how is that social provision & social structure funded?
Answer: by a much higher proportion of national income flowing through the state ... so, the transition to a Scandinavian model would involve very significant (perhaps welcome) shifts in the UK's political economy!
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CAMESA. A shirt or shift. CANT. SPANISH.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
🔴 🌍 Earth is becoming ‘increasingly uninhabitable,’ scientists warn
"This could be Earth’s hottest year and increasingly warm and humid weather is making more of the planet unlivable, with 600 million people living outside habitable climatic conditions. With each degree of warming in the future, an estimated 10 percent of Earth’s population will join them. Those in the Global South are more exposed than others."
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming #Science @science @climatechange
🔴 The rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus
"For two millennia, mobile pastoralism dominated lifeways on the great expanses of steppe extending northwards from the Caucasus mountains. Fuelled by technological innovations such as wheeled transport and dairy pastoralism, as well as emerging horse husbandry, steppe populations from the Caucasus–Steppe interface exerted a large influence on the Eurasian landmass, leaving far-flung genetic and cultural footprints that remain even today. Understanding the dynamic and complex population interactions that shaped the region’s most influential BA groups, such as the Maykop, Yamnaya and Kura–Araxes, is key to reconstructing the population history of both Europe and Asia."
Ghalichi, A., Reinhold, S., Rohrlach, A.B. et al. The rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08113-5.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Science #Genetics #Archaeogenetics #BronzeAge #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @science
🔴 🗺️ The Map That Changed the Middle East (1916)
"Seven days later the two would sign the Sykes–Picot Agreement, a secret agreement between the the UK and France outlining, according to the lines on the map, how they would carve up the Middle East should the Ottoman Empire be defeated in the First World War."
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-map-that-changed-the-middle-east-1916/
#Map #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #MiddleEast #Asia @histodon @histodons
🔴 🏴 📖 What you know about the Middle Ages is probably wrong
"The book is a journey through 500 years of English history, examining in glorious detail the extraordinary changes that revolutionized the lives of everyone in the kingdom during the period 1000 to 1500."
🔗 https://malwarwickonbooks.com/middle-ages-revisionist-history/
#Histoiry #England #MiddleAges #Medieval #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon @medievodons @bookstodon
🔴 A Bronze Age town in the Khaybar walled oasis: Debating early urbanization in Northwestern Arabia
"Alongside this local economy, the site was part of a wider regional exchange network, at a time when trans-Arabian travel by donkey was on the increase ([29, 61]). The microfabrics of a few rare sherds of Red Burnished Ware found during surveys and excavations seems to come from outside the oasis (perhaps Qurayyah or Tayma). Sourcing analyses of arsenic copper at Tayma and Qurayyah have shown a regional provenance, either from Oman or the Arabian Shield ([60]: 141, [64])."
Charloux G, Shabo S, Depreux B, Colin S, Guadagnini K, et al. (2024) A Bronze Age town in the Khaybar walled oasis: Debating early urbanization in Northwestern Arabia. PLOS ONE 19(10): e0309963. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309963.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Anthropology #Deserts #Arabia #BronzeAge #Urbanization #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaedons @anthropology
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One thing I love about the #Fediverse is that there are people who have tons of followers, who have no reason to respond to little plebian me, have DMs open and respond happily.
So shoutout to those of you with huge followings and open DMs. You know who you are.
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Travel time plotted since the 1800s onward... coool.
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Everyone got the memo that we're supposed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by half in 6 years, right?
🔴 Is It AI? Peer Reviewers Struggle to Distinguish LLMs From Human Writing
"The study suggests that as LLMs advance, peer reviewers will have a diminishing capability to detect content written by AI. It also revealed the negative bias held by reviewers toward machine-generated content."
#AI #ArtificalIntelligence #Science #Writing #PeerReview @ai @science
🔴 Mortality burden attributed to anthropogenic warming during Europe’s 2022 record-breaking summer
"Our findings highlight that human-induced climate change poses a risk beyond vulnerable populations, extreme temperatures, heatwaves, or Southern regions characterized by high summer temperatures. However, we also find that population groups more susceptible to heat, i.e. women and the elderly, are more adversely affected by anthropogenic warming than the general population."
Beck, T.M., Schumacher, D.L., Achebak, H. et al. Mortality burden attributed to anthropogenic warming during Europe’s 2022 record-breaking summer. npj Clim Atmos Sci 7, 245 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00783-2
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #Europe #Health #PublicHealth #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange
🔴 🇺🇸 American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016
_After describing American imperial activity in the late nineteenth century, the authors of the 1961 text Men and Nations: A World History claimed that by establishing “an empire of colonies and protectorates in the Caribbean and the Pacific” the United States “had taken its place as one of the great powers of the world”. [63] The authors claimed that the United States possessed a humane and civilising empire: “Probably the countries were never better governed or enjoyed greater freedom from wars, revolutions, financial crises, and national bankruptcies. Yet these benefits were not always welcomed by the Latin Americans”._
Jackson, S. (2024) ‘American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016’, Paedagogica Historica, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024.2362250.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #WorldHistory #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Empire #Imperialism #Education #Learning #Textbooks #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016
_After describing American imperial activity in the late nineteenth century, the authors of the 1961 text Men and Nations: A World History claimed that by establishing “an empire of colonies and protectorates in the Caribbean and the Pacific” the United States “had taken its place as one of the great powers of the world”. [63] The authors claimed that the United States possessed a humane and civilising empire: “Probably the countries were never better governed or enjoyed greater freedom from wars, revolutions, financial crises, and national bankruptcies. Yet these benefits were not always welcomed by the Latin Americans”._
Jackson, S. (2024) ‘American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016’, Paedagogica Historica, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024.2362250.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #WorldHistory #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Empire #Imperialism #Education #Learning #Textbooks #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
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Happy #BookshopDay to those who celebrate. And especially to those in #SouthLondon
Nice to see the #BBC has actually made it across the river:
'Phubbing' is a new word I learnt today. It denotes the practice of ignoring a companion for an electronic device such as a mobile phone.
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On this day in 1914: Jonas Salk, pioneered 1st safe & effective polio vaccine #NobelPrize #ThisDayInBiotech
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
