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Reading between the Gridlines

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2023/06/reading-between-the-gridlines/

A cartographer is using maps to fight climate change. She creates interactive visualizations that show the impacts of rising sea levels, extreme weather, and carbon emissions on different regions. Her maps aim to raise awareness, inspire action, and inform decision-making. #maps #climatechange #visualization https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/22/1074262/cartographer-fights-climate-change/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FArchetypes

Another #Mastotip for this megathread of tips for people new to #Mastodon from #Twitter. I was just introduced to Followgraph, which lets you plug your profile in and graph out who your follow's are following, so you can possibly find more interesting accounts to follow! https://followgraph.vercel.app
H/T: @jfkimmes

#Twittermigration #Welcome #Twitterexodus

#OTD 4 July 1753 Jean-Pierre Blanchard was born. He became a pioneer in ballooning, becoming the first to cross the English Channel in a balloon on 7 January 1785.

What makes South Korea’s fertility rate decline more astonishing is the relatively short period in which it has occurred.

And now South Korea is the only country in the world to register a fertility rate of less than one child per woman, although others – Ukraine, China and Spain – are close.

https://theconversation.com/south-korea-has-the-lowest-fertility-rate-in-the-world-and-that-doesnt-bode-well-for-its-economy-207107

#WorldNews #Economy #Demography #Asia #SouthKorea

We're noticing a lot of movement to Mastodon. To get you started, here's a list of #OpenScience folks who are already on Mastodon 🐘 https://germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon-OpenScience/

Sometimes, words were saved from death because they were borrowed.

The descendants of Proto-Germanic *uzgōlīn (pride) became extinct in Germanic, but borrowings live on in Romance: e.g. French 'orgueil' and Italian 'orgoglio'.

Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (conflict) was even brought back to Germanic thanks to Old French borrowing 'haste'. Here's how:

"A straight line can be readily drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the Cepheid variables and their periods."

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born #OTD in 1868. Her discovery of how to effectively measure vast distances to remote galaxies led to a shift in the understanding of the nature of the universe. via @Wikipedia

#books #science #astronomy

"Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal."

Samuel Richardson died #OTD in 1761. In his first novel, Pamela, he explored the various complexities of the title character's life, and the letters allow the reader to witness her develop and progress over time.  The novel was an experiment, but it allowed Richardson to create a complex heroine through a series of her letters. via @Wikipedia

Books by Samuel Richardson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1959

#books #literature

"Nelle belle sere dell'autunno passato una grande stella rossa fu veduta per più mesi brillare sull'orizzonte meridionale del cielo; era il pianeta Marte..."

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli died #OTD in 1910. Schiaparelli worked on binary stars, discovered the large main-belt asteroid 69 Hesperia (29 April 1861) , and demonstrated that the meteor showers were associated with comets. via @Wikipedia

Books about or by Schiaparelli at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2523

#books #science #astronomy

Today is publication day in the US for my book, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, in which I examine society's entry into the age of print for lessons as we leave it. Bloomsbury just gave me 25% off discount codes: TGPJJ23US (US) or TGPJJ23UK (worldwide).
https://gutenbergparenthesis.com/

Single line pen plot
#penplotter #generativeart #mathart

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How do we know *rīks was not the native Germanic word?

Proto-Indo-European *ē became *ē in Proto-Germanic (a long vowel close to the one in British 'there'), not ī (as in 'fleet').

Thus, *h₃rḗǵs should've become *rēks.

What would the descendants of *rēks have been?

Proto-Germanic *ē became *ā (as in 'father') in Proto-North (*rāks) and Proto-West Germanic (*rāk); subsequently:
- Icelandic *rákur
- Swedish *råk
- German *Raach
- Dutch *raak
- English *reak
- West Frisian *riek

'Rich' stems from a Celtic word meaning "king".

This word, *rīxs, a cousin of Latin 'rēx', was first borrowed into Germanic.

Next, an adjective meaning "powerful; wealthy" was derived from it. It was this word that eventually became 'rich'.

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I love the gothic Fractur typeface used here* for German terms (nowadays merely italicized).
(*Foreword [1873] to Hegel's Logic [in Ency. 1817], 1975 OUP.)