Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🇬🇧 🖋️ **What is the state of Britain’s handwriting?**
"_Just one in six Britons (17%) update a personal journal or diary by hand at least a few times a month, while only 7% of the public are handwriting letters that regularly._"
🔗 https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/52273-what-is-the-state-of-britains-handwriting.
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Handwriting #Writing #Poll #Data #Dataviz
**Babylonia and Across the River**
🔗 https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/05/31/babylonia-and-across-the-river/.
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**TOP 15 Most Expensive Texts on Earth**
#Video length: twenty-five minutes and twenty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlqyNaBi1gI.
#History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #Auctions @histodons @bookstodon
**Virginia capital likely has 742 unmarked graves, some of Confederate soldiers, study finds**
**Battle of the Kalka River**
On this day in history in 1223, the Mongol Army led by Jebei and Subutai defeated the combined forces of the Kievan Rus at the Kalka River.
Afternoon all.
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Earth without water, by Thomas Burnet, ca. 1700⠀
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Note California depicted as an island. See more maps depicting California adrift from the mainland here — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-showing-california-as-an-island
@schmidt_fu Thank you for the advice. I realise that the multiple grammar rules can be difficult for English speakers; however, I would like to concentrate in the beginning on the written word.
🧬 **Ancient Mediterranean DNA confirms old truths: People contain multitudes**
“_Their analysis revealed something that seems counterintuitive: Despite the fact that Punic people originally came from the eastern Mediterranean, an area called the Levant, those who were living in Punic settlements several centuries later showed almost no trace of Levantine ancestry._”
🔗 https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-05-29/punic-study.
#Research #News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Ancient #DNA #Levant @archaeodons @anthropology
💻 **The AI Cultural Slop Apocalypse is Here**
Lewis Waller
#Video length:thirty-two minutes and fifty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2DyZQhzv7Q.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech #Culture @ai
🇯🇴 **Lost Byzantine city resurfaces in S. Jordan: Ancient settlement of Tharais identified**
“_The town of Tharais, once featured on the renowned Madaba Mosaic Map, has been positively identified near the modern town of El-‘Iraq in the Karak Governorate, providing a new chapter in the archaeological and cultural history of the region._”
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodons #Culture #Byzantinum #Jordan @archaeodons @histodons
@bewitchedmind I have a hobby of starting new projects without completing them. I thought I could add learning German to my extensive list of 'achievements'.
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@bibliolater You could start with an English/German edition of Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language" and then consider if you really want to learn it. 😉
🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 🇱🇺 🇱🇮 **Language Question**
I am thinking about learning German. What do you think the best books to use in this endeavour would be?
#German #Language #Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Education #Learning #Books
Afternoon all.
I completely agree with you. I would be interested in reading what you thought would be the best way to achieve this?
**Tips from a Wisconsin librarian: How can you know if what you’re reading is false?**
“_Librarian Kate Hinnant shares how to spot falsehoods online and how to slow the spread of misinformation_”
🔗 https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-librarian-tips-reading-false-misinformation-online.
#Reading #Misinformation #SocialMedia #Online #Internet #Tips
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#Viking people if you haven’t read this book yet put it next on your list.
I literally closed the first edition of this one back in 2010 and said “Welp, I’m going to get a PhD in archaeology.” #Medieval #Archaeology #histodons
US student seeks college refund after she spotted her teacher was using ChatGPT
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/us-student-seeks-college-refund-chatgpt-teacher-b1228538.html.
📚 **What books do professors of different subjects read?**
Harriet Breakey
“_I asked these professors whether they found reading to be an escape from their field of study or if reading was yet another way they could remain immersed in their subject. The response I received overwhelmingly favoured reading as a form of wider research._”
🔗 https://cherwell.org/2025/05/28/oxford-professors-read-books/.
#Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Academia #Academics @bookstodon
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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