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**Cutty Sark’s new binnacle: charting a course for heritage crafts**
"_A navigational case shines a light on traditional skills – and prompts intriguing questions into the tea clipper’s history_"
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Fun fact: the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus the Great (539 BCE) pretty much marks the halfway point of recorded history so far. Everything since—the Persian Empire, Alexander, Romans, Middle Ages of course—is closer to us than to the first invention of writing.
**Ancient Greek civilization in the later Archaic periods**
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/place/ancient-Greece/Classical-Greek-civilization.
**Ancient Greek civilization in the later Archaic periods**
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/place/ancient-Greece/Classical-Greek-civilization.
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Red de carreteras del Imperio Romano (2020) https://mapasmilhaud.com/mapas-historicos/red-de-carreteras-del-imperio-romano-2020/
@onlmaps It is not called the 'nether lands' for no reason.
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98th: The Apache Wars offers a thoroughly researched history of the longest domestic war in US that spanned from 1859-1890s as US government and white settlers sought to remove the Apache’s from areas where gold and land was plentiful in Southwest. 1/2 #books #nonfiction
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Why solar flares are way hotter than researchers thought
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529330/solar-flares-even-hotter?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Science @science-npr
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People keep calling LLMs "automation" but automation is necessarily consistent. Automation can fail, obviously, and often it produces crap, but while in operation they must be consistent
Otherwise it isn't automation
LLMs are not automation. At their very best they're assistive tech and they usually aren't at their best
🇺🇸 💵 **America’s billionaires are now worth $5.7 trillion—and just three people represent $1 trillion of that wealth**
🚽 **Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids**
"_The study suggests that prolonged engagement with smartphones while using the toilet may be associated with an increased prevalence of hemorrhoids._"
Ramprasad C, Wu C, Chang J, Rangan V, Iturrino J, et al. (2025) Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids. PLOS ONE 20(9): e0329983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329983.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Science #Gastroenterology #Medicine #Health #Phones #Hemorrhoids #Toilet #Academia @science
📚 **Longlist: The £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction**
🔗 https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/09/longlist-the-50000-baillie-gifford-prize-for-nonfiction/.
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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 **Ranked: U.S. Crude Oil Imports by Country**
"_In 2024, 61.7% of America’s crude oil imports were from Canada._"
🔗 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-crude-oil-imports-by-country/.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Oil #FossilFuels #USA #US #UnitedStates #Canada #Trade #Business
🧬 **Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs**
"_Our data demonstrate large-scale population movement from Eastern Europe during the sixth to eighth centuries, replacing more than 80% of the local gene pool in Eastern Germany, Poland and Croatia. Yet, we also show substantial regional heterogeneity as well as a lack of sex-biased admixture, indicating varying degrees of cultural assimilation of the autochthonous populations._"
Gretzinger, J., Biermann, F., Mager, H. et al. Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09437-6.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Archaeogenetics #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Academia @archaeodons @science
🇪🇸 🔥 **Spain is having its largest wildfire year in well over a decade**
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See Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Copy of the Declaration of Independence
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-thomas-jeffersons-handwritten-copy-of-the-declaration-of-independence-180987277/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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