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History's Great Recommenders: From Ancient Times to Tomorrow https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/historys-great-recommenders-from-ancient-times-to-tomorrow/ #EssentialKnowledge #History #Philosophy #Recommendation
Source: https://twitter.com/mitpress/status/1599809082541707264?s=20&t=g-B0XJCKRvAATl0vt2-uIg
Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network https://source.wustl.edu/2022/11/findings-from-2000-year-old-uluburun-shipwreck-reveal-complex-trade-network/ #Archaeology #Science
Source: https://twitter.com/ticiaverveer/status/1599505511094681600?s=20&t=g-B0XJCKRvAATl0vt2-uIg
Wilson, Mark, 'Ersatz Rigor', Imitation of Rigor: An Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy (Oxford, 2021; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Dec. 2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896469.003.0001, accessed 5 Dec. 2022. #History #Philosophy #Science #Language
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For anyone wishing to read John Milton’s great English language epic poem “Paradise Lost,” or who have perhaps once read it but didn’t quite understand it, this recent New Books Network / Writ Large #podcast featuring Zachary Davis interviewing Prof. Erik Gray about #Milton, the poem, and its #history provides an excellent introduction and overview well suited to all interested. https://newbooksnetwork.com/on-john-miltons-paradise-lost #bookstodon #literature #poety #earlymodern
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Love this article by the brilliant
@HaggardHawks on Twitter. As a proud word-nerd, learning "new" old #words is hugely exciting, and I thoroughly endorse the idea of reviving "flapdoodler" and "hogamadog," among others. Thank you, Paul.
#Language #Linguistics
Palimpsests: How Recycled Books Preserve Lost Treasures https://antigonejournal.com/2021/05/palimpsests/ #Ancient #Literature #Culture #Classics #Tradition #Books
Source: https://twitter.com/AntigoneJournal/status/1599526501195603971?s=20&t=uByGXNz-wZsoC1GexI6LMA
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This amazing map shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
@histodons @geography
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Broad #medieval #plough ridges, each rising up between separating furrows, run up a slope close to Wimpole Hall, Cambs. They formed part of a larger enclosure for a #deer #park in 1302 and haven't been ploughed since then. The park survives today, now part of an enlarged 17thC one, though grazed by cattle rather than deer.
I get so much delight from this kind of quiet, unbtrusive evidence for the #history of individuals and communities in the #landscape.
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Steven Strogatz (@stevenstrogatz) has joined Mathstodon! He's an applied mathematician who works on nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, and he's written a lot of popular books: The Joy of X", "Infinite Powers" and others. Check out some of his essays here:
https://www.stevenstrogatz.com/essays
He has a massive number of followers on Twitter, so please say hi and help him with his withdrawal symptoms in this calmer, happier place.
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#introduction My name is Maite Correa and I am a #basque professor of Linguistics in the US. I am into #heritage #languages #descriptive #raciolinguistics #appliedlinguistics #psycholinguistics #anthropology #linguisticlandscapes #decolonization of the curriculum and anything #language
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#JohnTyndall physicist and philosopher, defender of #Darwinism (most notably in his #BelfastAddress), died #OTD 4 Dec 1893.
He was the first scientist to explain "why is the sky blue." He also conducted the first study of London pollution and opened up public debate into the greenhouse effect on earth's atmosphere. #ClimateChange
On Tyndall's Belfast Address : https://branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=bernard-lightman-on-tyndalls-belfast-address-1874
Bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/tyndall-john-a8696
Image from https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Tyndall_(ca._1885).jpg
An account that I am searching for does not show up in the results. Does this mean that the account's instance has #qoto blocked?
I am still not completely au fait with the correct nomenclature but being able to follow #hashtags from the #fediverse in my home feed has not only populated it but undoubtedly improved my experience as well.
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#OTD 1639 "On this day in 1639 Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree were the first human beings to have recorded a transit of Venus. ... Moreover, Horrocks predicted the event from his own calculations, improving on Kepler’s ephemeris of Venus and the sun.
https://pballew.blogspot.com/2022/12/on-this-day-in-math-december-4.html
Stroh-Wollin, U. (2020). Hinn and hinn: Early Icelandic as the clue to the history and etymology of two Old Scandinavian words. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 43(2), 205-228. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586520000086 #linguistics #article #openaccess #etymology #iceland #scandinavia #nordic #words
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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