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"On average, El Niño years are warmer globally than La Niña years – El Niño’s opposite. Globally, a strong El Niño can boost temperatures by about 0.7 degrees Fahrenheit (0.4 Celsius). But in North America, there is a lot of local variation." theconversation.com/el-nino-is

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[Blog Archive]
A Short Biography of John Bachman (1790-1874)
2010. Dictionary of Early American Philosophers.
Clergyman, educator, naturalist, friend of Audubon, and enslaver...[Bachman and Audubon] united over their shared love of Natural History... collecting specimen...and disputing their divergent manners, as the ascetic Bachman often admonished Audubon for his love of “gog and wine and snuff.”
#HistSTm #Slavery #Audubon #EnvHist #EnvironmentalStudies #SouthCarolina
until-darwin.blogspot.com/2011

Simões, L.G., Günther, T., Martínez-Sánchez, R.M. et al. Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant. Nature (2023). rdcu.be/decJv @histodon @histodons @archaeodons

@independentpen @bibliolater @histodon @histodons @anthropology best overview remains C Delano Smith in vol 1 of “The History of Cartography” - free at press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/H. The Bedolini petroglyph mentioned in the article is a Bronze Age original. It’s v hard to identify a map w/out context!

"In September and October of 2018, three maps went viral on social media and the web. All of them had the same perspective, featured oceans as the main focus, and presented the oceans as one body of water." storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7

Source: twitter.com/Sean_C_Cote/status

"Those ancient humans who might have scratched directions in the sand or carved lines on wood were the first to practice the art of symbolic representation in the form of a map." laphamsquarterly.org/roundtabl @histodon @histodons @anthropology

Source: twitter.com/laphamsquart/statu

Kimmo Katajala (2023) Inventing the Grand Duchy of Finland in the 1580s: early modern state formation or medieval patterns of expressing the power, Scandinavian Journal of History, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2023. @histodon @histodons

Sara L. Uckelman (2023) John Eliot's Logick Primer: A Bilingual English-Massachusett Logic Textbook, History and Philosophy of Logic, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2023. @histodon @histodons @philosophy

This is a long read, and a fascinating article exposing Spanish academics that have published an unfeasible number of papers each year. As in, a paper evey couple of days.

A researcher who publishes a study every two days reveals the darker side of science
english.elpais.com/science-tec

#AcademicEthics #academia #science #research #publication #academicpublishing #papermills #MDPI

"It is clear why Smith was regarded as the central character for orthodox free marketers like Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. But is it fair to reduce a great thinker to two quotes?" thenational.scot/culture/23571 @economics @philosophy

Soure: twitter.com/Scotonomics1/statu

"As of today, anthropologists believe there were at least ten different occupations of Britain in c.900,000 years of British history that featured (at least) four human species." historyhit.com/who-were-the-fi @histodon @histodons @anthropology

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"This course provides a basic introduction to metric spaces. It covers metrics, open and closed sets, continuous functions (in the topological sense), function spaces, completeness, and compactness." ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s190-in

Source: twitter.com/MITOCW/status/1665

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