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🔴 **Water and Gruel – not Bread: Discovering the Diet of Early Neolithic Farmers in Scandinavia**
_“The results support a hypothesis that archaeobotanists and archaeologists elsewhere in Northern Europe also have proposed after discovering remains of grains cooked into porridge and gruel: that the first farmers did not live on water and bread but rather on water and gruel, alongside berries, nuts, roots, and meat.”_
🔗 https://nat.au.dk/en/about-the-faculty/news/show/artikel/stenalderbonden-var-paa-vand-og-groed
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Neolithic #Scandinavia #Europe #Diet #Porridge #Gruel @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇳🇴 **Treasure trove of jewellery, coins and ‘vulva stone’ discovered in Viking women’s graves**
Vishwam Sankaran
_“Archaeologists theorise that the vulva stone may have served as a marker to indicate the grave belonged to a woman, whose body was likely not buried in the tomb but elsewhere._
_This theory could explain why none of the women’s bones were found at the burial site, researchers suggest.”_
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Norway #Scandinavia #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
@undefined @noondlyt A model citizen.
🔴 🇺🇸 **The Early Days of American English**
"How English words evolved on a foreign continent. "
🔗 https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/early-days-american-english
#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #English #Words #Langauge #Linguistics #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @linguistics
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Over 3,000 Billion Litres Of Water Flooded Out Of A Glacial Lake In Just 18 Days [GLOF]
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https://www.iflscience.com/over-3000-billion-liters-of-water-flooded-out-of-a-glacial-lake-in-just-18-days-77263 <-- shared technical article
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https://nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news24/one-of-worlds-largest-glacier-floods-triggered-in-greenland/ <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #CatalinaLake #Greenland #glaciallakeoutburstflood #GLOF #EastGreenland #glacial #cryosphere #climatechange #melting #warming #meltwater #flood #flooding #Sentinel2 #risk #hazard #outflow
@amassaro Who needs alliance partners when one can have vassals instead?
**What brought the decline of the eastern Roman Empire – and what can we learn from it?**
_"It seems the Roman Empire entered the 7th century at the peak of its power. But Roman miscalculations, and their failure against their Persian opponents, brought the entire area into a downward spiral. This left the two empires weak and allowed Islam to rise."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #RomanEmpire #Romans #Imperialism #Empire @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients**
_"Advertisers mimicked the sensitive queries of cancer patients to target them with their marketing using Google’s keyword-matching feature. In 2023, 20,035 unique keywords emulated Google searches seeking information on cancer prognosis, alternative treatments, accessing treatment, treatment options, diagnosis, specific cancers, and late-stage cancer._
_The Google tools used by alternative cancer clinics exploit users’ searches for information and give prominence to websites promoting treatment unsupported by scientific evidence."_
Zenone, M., Marcon, A., Kenworthy, N., van Schalkwyk, M., Caulfield, T., Hartwell, G., & Maani, N. (2024). Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-170
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Google #Health #Cancer #Advertisements #Advertising #Information #Technology #Tech #Academia #Academics
@amassaro I did not understand, please could you explain further?
🔴 💻 **The Dark Matter of AI [Mechanistic Interpretability]**
#Video length: twenty-four minutes and eight seconds.
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Did you know that once we ditch fossil fuels, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall by 40% because that’s how many are just carrying coal, oil and gas?
🔴 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 🇺🇸
If the reports are true, what are the chances of success?
Trump's plans to turn Canada, Greenland and Panama Canal into US territory https://metro.co.uk/2024/12/23/trumps-plans-turn-canada-greenland-panama...
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@labellaragassa That is good to read!
@labellaragassa@exquisite.social That is good to read!
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UK economy flatlined last quarter revised figures reveal
https://www.cityam.com/the-uk-economy-flatlined-last-quarter-revised-figures-reveal/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories in Business @top-stories-in-business-FlipboardUK
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Reminder that one of the most important times to wear a mask is right now during holiday season travel. Transit hubs are high risk as many people travel while they are sick. A high quality mask like an N95 will help protect you and help ensure you don't miss out on valuable time with loved ones.
#QOTO: anyone else lost sound associated with #notifications?
🔴 🌡️ **Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality**
_“Using climate model simulations of idealized SG and data-driven of temperature-attributable mortality, we estimate that, in a world 2.5 °C warmer than preindustrial, 1 °C of global-average cooling by SG reduces mortality by over 400,000 deaths annually by 2080, with a possible range from −1.2 million to 2.7 million deaths annually.”_
A. Harding, G.A. Vecchi, W. Yang, D.W. Keith, Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121 (52) e2401801121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401801121 (2024).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Geoscience #Engineering #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academics @science @climatechange
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The number pi has an evil twin! It's a number called ϖ with many properties similar to π. There are even mutant trig functions connected to this number, called sl and cl.
So maybe while you were studying trig in high school, some kid in another galaxy was having to memorize all the identities for these other functions.
I doubt it. Just as pi and trig functions are connected to the circle, this number ϖ and its mutant trig functions are connected to a curve shaped like the symbol for infinity, ∞. But this curve is just less important than the circle. I'm not enough of a cultural relativist to believe there's a civilization that cares more about the shape ∞ than the shape ◯.
This ∞-shaped curve is called a 'lemniscate', and ϖ is called the 'lemniscate constant'. I'll show you the lemniscate in my next post.
A civilization will probably only get interested in ϖ when it gets interested in the lemniscate.... or the deeper math it's connected to. On our planet, it was Bernoulli, Euler and Gauss who discovered this math.
(Why does unicode even have the symbol ϖ? Here's why: it's a script version of the Greek letter pi, sometimes called 'varpi' or 'pomega'.)
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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.
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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