Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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@lritter I hear it is a really wet experience.
🧬 **Ancient genomic evidence uncovers a 6th-century cross-border couple between South Asia and East Asia**
"_For Li Dan, genetic analysis reveals a close relationship with modern Brahmins, supporting his Brahmin status and his biography as the progeny of Brahmanic descent. Alongside the eclectic archaeological culture, we believe Li Dan preserved his ethnic heritage while forming an integrated Chinese cultural identity._"
Du, P. et al. (2025) 'Ancient genomic evidence uncovers a 6th-century cross-border couple between South Asia and East Asia,' Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 68, p. 105474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105474.
#Academia #Research #Archaeology #Ancient #DNA #Genetics #Science #Asia
🇺🇸 **Trade war and the dollar anchor**
_“Inhibiting trade flows to and from the United States through tariffs or other means, weakens the force underpinning the dollar’s special role,” the authors write. “… This loss of its safe-haven status leads to a rise in U.S. interest rates, a drop in the world-market value of U.S. firms, capital outflows, and lower U.S. wages. … Without free trade, the U.S. dollar-centric system may collapse entirely or shift to another target currency.”_
🔗 https://www.brookings.edu/articles/trade-war-and-the-dollar-anchor/.
**‘They treat men like vending machines’: Inside the hidden world of social media sperm selling**
🌏 **Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic**
"_We suggest a group with a similar lithic technology became isolated somewhere in the vicinity of the Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kuril region, developing genetically into ancestral American populations. Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas. By ~16,000 to ~15,000 cal yr B.P., they had become widely dispersed across North America._"
David B. Madsen et al., Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic. Sci. Adv.11, eady9545 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ady9545.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Anthropology #Paleolithic #Americas #Asia #Research #Academia
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“Jefferson said that he sought to treat his enslaved people humanely and no evidence has emerged that he personally whipped them. But his overseers performed that practice, sometimes at his direction. In one such case, a runaway was captured and placed in irons and, as Jefferson wrote, “I had him severely flogged in the presence of his old companions.””
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/thomas-jefferson-battle-norfolk-burning/
🇺🇸 **The Immigrant Who Industrialized America**
"_Eighteenth-century cotton entrepreneur Samuel Slater reminds us that cutting-edge knowledge often resides in brains, not books._"
📌 I suspect that this article was written to show the benefits of migration for a welcoming society. For those concerned about immigration, Mr Slater's change of domicile is not of concern and cannot be used as an example of the benefits of all migrants to a society. For these folks Mr Slater possesses an attribute that many of the migrants of today do not possess namely direct descent from northern European antecedents.
🔗 https://www.city-journal.org/article/samuel-slater-water-cotton-spinning-mill-industrial-revolution.
🇺🇸 🎙️ **Understanding America’s $38 Trillion Debt and the Path Forward**
"_Wharton professor of business economics and public policy breaks down the drivers of America’s surging national debt and outlines sustainable solutions for long-term fiscal stability._"
**The 2 Building Blocks of A Daily Reading Habit**
🔗 https://www.amugofinsights.org/1-2-read-dont-put-your-life-on-hold-to-read/.
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The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-roman-empires-entire-road-network-mapped.html
@GossiTheDog I played the original version of Elite as a child in the 1980s. Many happy memories. I hope you enjoy.
@citc I tried the link again and it worked well.
**In their own words: medical writings in Middle English**
**Here’s Where the Word “Dude” Came From—And Trust Us, You Are Never Going to Guess This One**
🔗 https://www.rd.com/article/where-the-word-dude-came-from/.
📚 **How Medieval Scribes Balanced the Books**
"_As the medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/how-medieval-scribes-balanced-books.
🇺🇸 **Are We Living James Madison’s Worst Nightmare?**
"_America, he was determined, would have no king. What most worried Madison was the prospect of a populist demagogue._"
🔗 https://kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2025/11/06/are-we-living-james-madisons-worst-nightmare/.
📚 🇳🇴 **Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book**
🖥️ 🤖 **AI Capabilities May Be Overhyped on Bogus Benchmarks, Study Finds**
"_They're dumber than you think and they might be cheating._"
🔗 https://gizmodo.com/ai-capabilities-may-be-overhyped-on-bogus-benchmarks-study-finds-2000682577.
@crcollins The only reason why I am using the Kindle is that it was available for free (except the cost of a replacement battery) and I am able to load it with public domain books from places like Project Gutenberg.
**Network-Based Detection of Wash Trading**
"_Applying this method to the Polymarket exchange, we estimate that transaction patterns indicative of wash trading began to trend upward in July 2024, peaking at nearly 60 percent of volume in December 2024._"
Sirolly, Allen and Ma, Hongyao and Kanoria, Yash and Sethi, Rajiv, Network-Based Detection of Wash Trading (November 06, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5714122.
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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