Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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@zleap @science @climatechange
For some the need to tackle the climate situation is not dire as they can they can insulate themselves from its effects by wealth. If that fails, then there is always the prospect of a quick space hop over to Mars to start a new colonisation project.
🔴 We’re cooked on climate: 2024 virtually certain to be the hottest year on record
"The climate numbers are bad"
🔴 Fertility in High-Income Countries: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences
"The macroeconomic consequences of fertility decline and low fertility are manifold. Many predominantly affect the supply side of the economy (e.g., labor shortages), and some predominantly affect the demand side (e.g., reductions in consumption expenditure growth and the associated repercussions on investment)."
Bloom, D.E., Kuhn, M. and Prettner, K. (2024) 'Fertility in High-Income Countries: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and consequences,' Annual Review of Economics. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-081523-013750.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Economics #Health #PublicHealth #Fertility #Depopulation #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics
🔴 🎥 AI can't cross this line and we don't know why.
#Video length: twenty four minutes and six seconds.
🔴 Manufacturing accounts for a relatively small and declining share of total employment in rich countries
"Across all countries, manufacturing employment has declined. In the US, it fell from 13% in 2000 to just below 10% in 2022. Even in Germany, where it is the highest among this group, manufacturing is now down to less than 20%."
Politics: Trump Interview (2013)
🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 "That's too long!" - The Moment Donald Trump Coined his Iconic Campaign Slogan (2013)
"On 19 July 2013, Donald Trump spoke to ITN's Matt Frei at Trump Tower in New York. The main subject of the interview was Donald Trump's increasing involvement in US politics, and in the course of an at times heated conversation, he revealed the slogan that would come to dominate his political career."
#Video length: thirty three minutes and sixteen seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3ICpcRUePw
#MAGA #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #DonaldTrump #Trump #POTUS #USPolitics #Trump2024 #USPol #Politics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Television #TV #Interview #Archive
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Analysis of inflation in the US over the last 4 decades. #economics
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/INFLATION/jnpwjxkdavw/
Sitting down to follow #election2024 for the next few hours.
🔴 📖 “Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq” by Bartle Bull
"Land Between the Rivers is an easy read, with a flowing narrative line and long, interesting digressions on such subjects as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Zoroastrianism and its influence on the Abrahamic religions and the “ramshackle” Pathian Empire’s predilection for Hellenism (the court was rather fond of Euripides)....."
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Ancient #History #Iraq #MiddleEast #Asia @bookstodon
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Portuguese lacks a lot of n's.
For example, whereas Spanish has 'luna' (moon), in Portuguese it's 'lua'.
This n was lost in the Middle Ages.
Initially, it made the preceding vowel nasal, but this nasality was lost in many words after 1500.
Click the video to hear how it went:
🔴 🇳🇱 📚 Dutch publisher to use AI to translate ‘limited number of books’ into English
“Taking the translator out of the loop opens the door to incorrect or misleading translations that will serve readers poorly,” said David McKay, a literary translator who translates from Dutch into English. He added that while it is understandable that publishers want to use new technologies to “increase their efficiency”, VBK’s plans “sound very reckless”.
#Bookstodon #Books #Publishing #Translation #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Dutch #Netherlands #Europe @bookstodon @ai
🔴 🏴 🇮🇪 From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland
"English colonialism meant replacing one type of kingdom with another, and thus bringing the pre-existing Gaelic kingdom of Ireland into conformity with an English model. In this way, Ireland was transformed from a kingdom to a colony."
Colin Veach, From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland , The English Historical Review, 2024;, ceae210, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae210.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Ireland #Colonialism #Empire #Imperialism #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
@freemo Thank you for the update.
@undefined @tultican I do not think the problem is immigration as such, rather more a case of having the 'right type' of immigrant.
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70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s army
https://www.zmescience.com/other/shorties/70-percent-britain-land-owned-by-the-rich/
Norman descendants are still doing very fine in today's Britain
🔴 📖 🎥 How To RECLAIM Your Attention Span - 4 Mindsets to Deepen Focus
"A practical episode on how to reclaim your attention span and the 3 key reframes and mindsets to help you retrain your focus muscle."
#Video length: twenty two minutes and fifteen seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/WtQ27HQsROw
#Attention #Focus #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 📖 🎥 How To RECLAIM Your Attention Span - 4 Mindsets to Deepen Focus
"A practical episode on how to reclaim your attention span and the 3 key reframes and mindsets to help you retrain your focus muscle."
#Video length: twenty two minutes and fifteen seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/WtQ27HQsROw
#Attention #Focus #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 📖 🎥 What Increases The Value Of A Rare Book?
#Video length: twenty nine minutes and thirty nine seconds.
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