Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Was the earth of Carthage salted after its fall during the third Punic War? https://www.badancient.com/claims/carthage-salted/ #history #histodons #africa @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/BadAncient/status/1650876040858722305
"Within a few months, things turned very sour. Rousseau wrote hateful letters to Hume accusing him of having plotted for his disgrace and humiliation by way of petty torments." https://www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/klein-hume-rousseau-affair
#History #Philosophy #histodons @histodons #philosopher
Source: https://twitter.com/adamsmithworks/status/1656329555517358082
6,000-year-old settlement — full of tools and granite structures — found in France https://newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article274788961.html #Archaeology #History #France #Corsica #histodons @histodons
"Some of these systems’ abilities go far beyond what they were trained to do—and even their inventors are baffled as to why." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ai-knows-things-no-one-told-it/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Source: https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1656696548435148812
The Interesting Etymologies of 71 Everyday Words https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/interesting-etymologies-everyday-words #etymology #languages
Source: https://twitter.com/Smart_Translate/status/1656735934572789773
"What makes this fragment unique, however, is the fact that Maimonides has added the translation in a Romance dialect below some words." https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/maimonides-fragments-discovered #Library #Philosophy #medieval #history #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/theUL/status/1657031374090432517
"The first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English writings on health and healing in more than 150 years." https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674290822
#book #History #Science #Medical #bookstodon #histodons #medieval #England @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/MedievalUpdates/status/1657304296776450048
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@bibliolater TLG isn't really "open" by any stretch of the imagination. They're really stuck in the proprietary mind-set of 1985.
My own offering is a novel presentation of Homer with aids: https://bitbucket.org/ben-crowell/ransom
Cunliffe's dictionary of the Homeric language is public domain now, yay: https://archive.org/details/CunliffeHomericLexicon (TLG has a copy of Cunliffe behind their own paywall, with rate-limiting and other restrictions that make it useless.)
Why the Dutch always say what they mean – BBC REEL https://youtu.be/wrEZwe1nbBU #Youtube #Video #Language #Netherlands #UnitedKingdom
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#OTD 30 April 1803 The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
"Studying hundreds of older patients, researchers in Germany found that those who reported using two languages daily from a young age scored higher on tests of learning, memory, language and self-control than patients who spoke only one language." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/health/bilingualism-memory-dementia.html #Science #Language
Source: https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1652518857427279873
American explorations in the West, 1803-1852 https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:q524n199 #Map #History #USA
Source: https://twitter.com/bplmaps/status/1652523217389494272
"We have curated a list of 100 excellent open-access websites and resources, each chosen on the grounds of utility for the Classics learner/lover." https://antigonejournal.com/helps/ #OpenAccess #OA #Websites #Classics
Collections: Academic Ranks Explained Or What On Earth Is an Adjunct? https://acoup.blog/2023/04/28/collections-academic-ranks-explained-or-what-on-earth-is-an-adjunct/ #Academia #College #University
Source: https://twitter.com/bibliolater1452/status/1652643973654085633
Ian Stewart (2023) William Jones’ Legacy in Britain: Philology, Mythography, Ethnology, Global Intellectual History, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2023.2184406 #Philology #Mythography #Ethnology #History #Britain #Histodons @histodon
Did the Phoenicians circumnavigate Africa? https://www.badancient.com/claims/phoenicians-africa/ #History #Histodons #Africa #Ancient @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/BadAncient/status/1652011522665611269
Lost and found: in praise of Cardinal Wolsey https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2023/04/lost-and-found-in-praise-of-cardinal-wolsey.html #Latin #Medieval #Literature #EarlyModern #History #Histodons @histodon
"Academic papers tend to be inherently complex due to their subjects, but many are also needlessly hard to read because of bad writing. A growing body of evidence shows that scientific papers have been getting harder to read over the last century." https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/ai-could-rescue-scientific-papers
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Academia #Science
Source: https://twitter.com/freethinkmedia/status/1651965360600502272
At the limits of astrophysics – with Katy Clough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RbkTCp16k #YouTube #Video #Science #Astrophysics #Physics
Source: https://twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1652281849861881857
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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