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The English words 'of', 'off', 'after', and 'ebb' all contain same root.
It also lies at the basis of German 'von' (of; from) and 'aber' (but).
This root, Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)p-, meant "off; away". By adding suffixes, related meanings were derived.
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"The authors present new archaeological discoveries from western and northern Mongolia, dating to the fourth and fifth centuries AD, including a wooden frame saddle with horse hide components from Urd Ulaan Uneet and an iron stirrup from Khukh Nuur. Together, these finds suggest that Mongolian groups were early adopters of stirrups and saddles, facilitating the expansion of nomadic hegemony across Eurasia and shaping the conduct of medieval mounted warfare."
Bayarsaikhan J, Turbat T, Bayandelger C, et al. The origins of saddles and riding technology in East Asia: discoveries from the Mongolian Altai. Antiquity. 2023:1-17. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.172 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Mongolia #Eurasia #Medieval #Horses #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Academia #Academic @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
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Milestone: 2023 is the first year with more than 10,000 research paper retractions -- smashing previous records. More than 8,000 of these came from Hindawi (mostly from 'special issues'). Total retractions now >50,000. My analysis for Nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03974-8
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When you find a webpage that offers you a book but you can't download it, and you can't right-click to save the images of its pages, well – the page has loaded the images. Therefore the images are somewhere in your browser. What to do?
Knowing a bit of how web pages are structured and built helps make the most of what you see online.
1. In your browser, open the developer tools (push F12).
2. Go to the "Network" tab and restrict the view to "Images" and "Media" (see the upper right side).
3. Zoom into the book to ensure pages are of high resolution, then pass the pages.
4. You will notice new rows appearing into the table of the "Network" tab of the Developer Tools.
5. Now move your mouse over them and the image may even be shown to you; in any case just right-click and save it.
There are scripts online to automate this, but if all you are after are a few pages, this suffices.
To montage the pages into a PDF, use e.g.:
$ img2pdf *jpg book.pdf
... and even OCR them if you like:
$ ocrmypdf book.pdf book-OCR.pdf
Both programs can be installed with:
$ sudo apt get install img2pdf ocrmypdf
... in ubuntu, debian, and the like.
Or, import each into a page of a multi-page #Inkscape document and save it as a PDF.
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About a quarter of all #freshwater #fish species are at risk of #extinction due to threats from #ClimateChange and #pollution, the latest @IUCNRedList showed on Monday, chart @Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/quarter-freshwater-fish-risk-extinction-study-2023-12-11/
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Max Born German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics was born #OTD in 1882.
Max Born went to Göttingen as Professor in 1921. During the years 1925 and 1926 he published, with Heisenberg and Jordan, investigations on the principles of quantum mechanics and soon after this, his own studies on the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics. He was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics. via @NobelFoundation
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Parts of the Canadian #Arctic observed temperatures up to 10°C above the 1981-2010 average during the month of November!
Data from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels-monthly-means?tab=overview
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Carl Jacobi German mathematician who, with Niels H. Abel of Norway, founded the theory of elliptic functions was born #OTD in 1804.
One of Jacobi's greatest accomplishments was his theory of elliptic functions & their relation to the elliptic theta function which was developed in his great treatise Fundamenta nova theoriae functionum ellipticarum. They are of great importance in mathematical physics because of their role in the inverse problem for periodic & quasi-periodic flows.
"To address questions about the real appearance of St Anthony, we applied body mass estimation equations to the osteometric measurements taken in 1981, during the public recognition of the Saint’s skeletal remains. Both the biomechanical and the morphometric approach were employed to solve some intrinsic limitations in the equations for body mass estimation from skeletal remains. The estimated body mass was used to assess the physique of the Saint with the body mass index."
Mongillo J, Vescovo G, Bramanti B (2021) Belly fat or bloating? New insights into the physical appearance of St Anthony of Padua. PLOS ONE 16(12): e0260505. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260505 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Academia #Academic @science
Gold-Mining Counties: Bartholomew, J. G. https://archive.org/details/dr_gold-mining-counties-6920146 via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #Atlas #Statistics #Gold #Mining #C20th #20thCentury
#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
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BBC News: Iron Age: How #Wales was ruled from hillforts pre-Romans
🇺🇸 Map of the United States of America, 1880. : Howland, H.G. https://archive.org/details/dr_map-of-the-united-states-of-america-1880-2709033 via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #C19th #19thCentury
#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
"Medieval hospitals were founded to provide charity, but poverty and infirmity were broad and socially determined categories and little is known about the residents of these institutions and the pathways that led them there. Combining skeletal, isotopic and genetic data, the authors weave a collective biography of individuals buried at the Hospital of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge."
Inskip S, Cessford C, Dittmar J, et al. Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity. Antiquity. 2023;97(396):1581-1597. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.167 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #England #Cambridge #Medieval #Hospitals #Osteology #Charity #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genetics #Science #Academia #Academic @archaeodons @science
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It’s hard not to say “AI” when everybody else does too, but technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing. There is no intelligence there, and it’s not going to become sentient. It’s just statistics, and the danger they pose is primarily through the false sense of skill or fitness for purpose that people ascribe to them.
The secrets of Einstein's unknown equation – with Sean Carroll.
"The real Einstein's Equation is part of general relativity, which relates the curvature of spacetime to the mass and energy distributed within it.
Sean explains why the geometry of spacetime has anything to do with gravity, and how this famous equation expresses the way that spacetime curves." https://youtu.be/BRudidBcfXk #Youtube #Video #Science #Einstein #Space #Universe #Equation #Physics #Lecture @science @physics
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New #genes found that can arise 'from nothing'.
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"Where Did the Open Access Movement Go Wrong?" This is a really interesting interview. While I strongly support the #OA movement, it's also clear that OA has been coopted by many traditional journals to make money, entrenching barriers to academic publishing for unfunded, nontraditional and marginalised scholars. Leaving many of us unable to afford to publish. (Not forgetting the fantastic mainly-online journals that have no APCs on principle, which I know there are more and more of.)
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French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to the Academy of Sciences, coins the terms linear polarization, circular polarization, and elliptical polarization, and reports a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence #OTD in 1822.
After Fresnel, the defining feature of polarized light was that the perpendicular components of vibration had a fixed ratio of amplitudes and a fixed difference in phase. via @wikipedia
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Swedish pharmaceutical chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele was born #OTD in 1742. Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine, among others. Scheele discovered organic acids tartaric, oxalic, uric, lactic, and citric, as well as hydrofluoric, hydrocyanic, and arsenic acids. via @wikipedia
Books by Carl Wilhelm Scheele at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/31878
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How each country’s #emissions and #climate pledged compare, chart @FT https://www.ft.com/content/9dfb0201-ef77-4c05-93cd-1e277c7017cf
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