Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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@bodhipaksa I prefer the 'old way' but that is probably due to habit rather than anything else.
🇺🇸 🕐 **Poll: Younger Americans have a harder time reading clocks**
"_95% of Americans 65 or older say they can instantly tell the time from the hour and minute hands, while only 43% of adults under 30 can._"
🔗 https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/52878-younger-americans-hard-time-reading-clocks.
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **East India Company**
**Ancient 5,500 year old factory 'confirms key part of the Bible'**
_The Canaanites were described in the Bible as people who lived in the area before the Israelites. The discovery is believed to be linked to the “Canaanite blade industry”._
🔗 https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/israel-ancient-blade-factory-bible-canaan-people.
🖥️ **Does generative AI help in learning programming: Students’ perceptions, reported use and relation to performance**
"_Frequent AI use links to lower scores, likely as weaker students rely more on study aids._"
Lepp, M. and Kaimre, J. (2025) 'Does generative AI help in learning programming: students’ perceptions, reported use and relation to performance,' Computers in Human Behavior Reports, p. 100642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100642.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Study #Education #Learning #Academia @ai
**You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.**
#Video: five minutes and forty-nine seconds.
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How US shoppers will be hit as tariff exemption ends
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnv7l575lgeo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. and Canada @u-s-and-canada-BBCNews
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AI is creeping into the Linux kernel - and official policy is needed ASAP
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-is-creeping-into-the-linux-kernel-and-official-policy-is-needed-asap/
AI tools can help Linux maintainers, but they can also cause chaos. Here's what needs to be addressed - fast - before things get out of control.
🇺🇸 📚 **How to Rekindle Your Love of Reading**
"_Americans are reading for pleasure less. Let’s get back in the habit._"
🔗 https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115113507025762448.
#GiftArticle #GiftLink #Reading #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🇬🇧 🎙️ **How big are the UK's demographic challenges?**
"_At the end of October, the ONS announced that the fertility rate in England and Wales had fallen to 1.44 births per woman in 2023 - the lowest figure since records began in 1938._"
🔗 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5HhxYHnYvXwkEa75WhDqOA
#Audio #Podcast #Demography #Finance #Economy #Economics #UK #UnitedKingdom @economics
**Rise of the alt-White? Examining the prevalence of perceived racial and gender discrimination among White men from 2014 to 2023**
"_Taken together, these results suggest that we identified two distinct ‘types’ of White men who feel discriminated against: (a) an economically disadvantaged group seeking to explain their disadvantage (the Disenfranchised) and (b) a more privileged group threatened by recent social progress for structurally disadvantaged groups (the Radicalized)._"
Lilly, K. J., Kimberley, C., Bertenshaw, Z., Bahamondes, J., Sibley, C. G., & Osborne, D. (2025). Rise of the alt-White? Examining the prevalence of perceived racial and gender discrimination among White men from 2014 to 2023. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64, e70010. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70010.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Psychology #SocialScience #Ethnicity #Ideology #Race #Discrimination #Academia @psychology @socialscience
**Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic**
"_This study provides the first genomic evidence of Y. pestis in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First Pandemic, linking archaeological findings with pathogen genomics near the origin point of the Plague of Justinian._"
Adapa, S.R.; Hendrix, K.; Upadhyay, A.; Dutta, S.; Vianello, A.; O’Corry-Crowe, G.; Monroy, J.; Ferrer, T.; Remily-Wood, E.; Ferreira, G.C.; et al. Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic. Genes 2025, 16, 926. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes16080926.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genomics #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #History #Pandemic #Plague #Academia @archaeodons @science
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AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/ai_web_crawlers_are_destroying/
But the cure may ruin the web....
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Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgyk2p55g8o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
**Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages**
"_In ‘Going Places’, the Getty is once again mining its outstanding collection of medieval manuscripts to explore how and why people travelled in the Middle Ages (2 September–30 November)._"
🔗 https://apollo-magazine.com/going-places-travel-middle-ages-manuscripts-getty-preview/.
#Art #Culture #Travel #MiddleAges #Medieval #Medievodons #History @medievodons
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Exploring the ocean floor
How humans discovered the ocean floor, surveyed it and managed to represent it on wonderful maps. The four breathtaking National Geographic maps that first described the ocean floors in full detail.
https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/exploring-the-ocean-floor
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Temperatures have warmed across the entire contiguous United States over the last five decades or so during the months of September through November.
Check out Climate Central's fall package for more information and graphics: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/2025-fall-package 🍁🍂
@SethRudy Unfortunately, a sign of the times.
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Swastikas still linger on some flags in Finland's air force, but are on the way out
https://apnews.com/article/finland-swastika-air-force-nato-423a764e6e72abde083f6136e06461c0?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress
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.
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