"Brits may mind their Ps and Qs, but they’ve completely overlooked their ñs and ßs. Linguist and epigraphist Philippa Steele spells out the surprising history behind our written languages." https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/443711-why-does-the-english-alphabet-have-26-letters #English #Languages #Linguistics #Alphabet #History #Writing #histodons #histodon @histodons @linguistics @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/crewsproject/status/1662154264372707336
"L' hemisphere meridional pour voir plus distinctement les terres australes". https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3220.ct009346/?loclr=twmap #Map #Cartography #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/LOCMaps/status/1661741408816857088
"Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra..., [between pages 41 and 42]". https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/db0cd870-667d-013a-bbd9-0242ac110003 #Map #Cartography #C17th #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NYPLMaps/status/1661750660088602625
"In recent decades, researchers have begun peering beneath book covers using noninvasive techniques to find medieval binding fragments and read what’s written on them." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/science/medieval-books-hidden-manuscripts.html #Books #Medieval #Science #bookstodon @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1661059061494824960
"No one knows where the city of Akkad was located, how it rose to prominence, or how, precisely, it fell; yet once it was the seat of the Akkadian Empire which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia." https://www.worldhistory.org/akkad/ #Ancient #History #Mesopotamia #histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/whencyclopedia/status/1660436584536178690
"Stuart was a slight, small man, a social misfit and heavy drinker. Yet he would go on to become perhaps the greatest explorer of the Australian interior in history." https://explorerspodcast.com/john-mcdouall-stuart/ #History #Australia #Podcast #Exploration #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @podcast
Source: https://twitter.com/explorerspod/status/1660675812608155654
Six of the most famous telescopes in #history https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/famous-telescopes/ #Science #Astronomy #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/skyatnightmag/status/1660285314978689026
"Kozinsky and his team used the world’s 8th most powerful supercomputer, Perlmutter, to simulate the 44 million atoms involved in the protein shell of HIV." https://www.newscientist.com/article/2373022-watch-44-million-atoms-simulated-using-ai-and-a-supercomputer/ #Video #Simulation #AI #artificalintelligence #Science #Computer #hiv
Source: https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1660295233710465030
Desert Monoliths Reveal World’s Oldest Architectural Plans. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/science/ancient-architecture-desert-kites.html #Science #Jordan #SaudiArabia #Architecture #MiddleEast #History #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1659983410662711298
"The most valuable discovery made so far in Şapinuwa is a collection of over three thousand pieces of clay tablets from the second millennium BCE." https://turkisharchaeonews.net/site/%C5%9Fapinuwa #History #Archaeology #AsiaMinor #Asia #Hittites #Turkey #histodons #archaeodons @histodons @archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/turarchaeonews/status/1660178262201364487
"An international team of researchers tested what the software could manage by providing the generative AI program with challenging graduate-level mathematics questions......" https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/when-it-comes-to-advanced-math-chatgpt-is-no-star-student/ #Maths #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT @mathst @mathematics
Source: https://twitter.com/JenLucPiquant/status/1659989673949773826
"For many thousands of years, human beings have been creating towns and cities in which to live. Here are some of the first cities we ever built." https://www.thecollector.com/first-cities-human-civilization-oldest-cities/ #Archaeology #Ancient #History #histodons #archaeodons @histodons @archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/spwells/status/1660008056976183296
"Galen was the greatest physician of his era and was also a skilled surgeon and renowned philosopher. He was responsible for numerous advances in the fields of anatomy, physiology and therapeutics and led a truly remarkable life." https://www.medicalexamprep.co.uk/claudius-galen/ #History #Medicine #Philosophy #Science #histodons @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/MedicalExamPrep/status/1660208813767790595
"What I see happening is that ChatGPT can already do much of the grunt work and draft translations, lessening the burden on human experts." https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=58745 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Languages #Cuneiform #ChatGPt @linguistics
Source: https://twitter.com/LanguageLog/status/1660235873445875713
"In the two new tablets, however, the language in the left column was not the expected Sumerian but rather the never-before-seen Northwest Semitic language Amorite." https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/ancient-amorite-language-discovered/ #Cuneiform #Linguistics #Mesopotamia #History #Langauage #histodons @histodons @linguistics
Source: https://twitter.com/BibArch/status/1660073161688248320
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