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**Who were the Galatians? How did they get where they were?**

"_Only much later did I learn that the Galatians were a type of Gauls, i.e., Celts, who had migrated from what is now France to what is now Türkiye._"

🔗 languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/.

@histodons

:google: **Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing**

"_Google also released its latest environmental report, which shows that its energy use from data centers has doubled since 2020._"

🔗 technologyreview.com/2025/07/0.

**Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn**

"_Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors._"

🔗 daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huy.

@science

🇪🇸 **Scientists find microplastics in semen and ovaries**

"_Spanish researchers have identified different types of plastics in seminal plasma and ovarian follicular fluid_"

🔗 english.elpais.com/science-tec.

@science

🖥️ **Can AI Chatbots Worsen Psychosis and Cause Delusions?**

"_Chatbots may lead to psychosis through confirmation bias, sycophancy, and "bullshit" receptivity._"

🔗 psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ps.

@psychology

Depends on how and what one spends their time at university doing.

BBC News  
How much are tuition fees in the UK and is university worth it? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyegp0dnq9o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=...

:iphonex: I am surprised that the two could be separated.

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Pupils give up smartphones in behaviour experiment https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36xxrrrjjko?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub ...

🏠 **Even billionaires are having trouble finding homes to rent now, thanks to a ‘mansion deficit’**

"_Demand for rentals has gotten a lot hotter among the very rich. More millionaires are renting these days. Between 2019 and 2023, the latest year for which there is publicly available data, the number of households that make $1 million or more in income who also rent skyrocketed by 204%, according to an analysis by RentCafe._"

🔗 marketwatch.com/story/even-bil.

🖥️ **No, AI Isn't Having 'Hallucinations' — Turns Out, It's Worse Than That**

"_Amid claims of "digital dementia," experts explain that AI isn't declining. It's just stupid in the first place._"

🔗 huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ai-.

**A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago**

"_Hannah Cairo has solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis closely linked to other central results in the field._"

🔗 english.elpais.com/science-tec.

@etenil I know a person that has been sleeping outside due to the heat these past few days.

**Literary Texts From The Sippar Library V: A Hymn In Praise Of Babylon And The Babylonians**

"_The article presents a previously unknown hymn in praise of Marduk, the Esagil, Babylon and the Babylonians. It contains unparalleled descriptions of the healing powers of Marduk, the splendor of Babylon, the spring borne by the Euphrates to the city’s fields and the generosity of the Babylonians themselves._"

Fadhil, A.A. and Jiménez, E. (2025) ‘LITERARY TEXTS FROM THE SIPPAR LIBRARY V: A HYMN IN PRAISE OF BABYLON AND THE BABYLONIANS’, Iraq, pp. 1–58. doi: doi.org/10.1017/irq.2024.23.

@archaeodons

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