Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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During this #holiday will you be #reading any #NonFiction #book or #books?
#AmReading #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Science History Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Remember when climate denialists said climate change wasn't a thing because of the outlier year, 1998
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The History Of Cartography, The “Most Ambitious Overview Of Map Making Ever,” Is Free Online
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https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/the-history-of-cartography-the-most-ambitious-overview-of-map-making-ever-is-free-online.html <-- shared media article
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https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html <-- link to digital free versions, University of Chicago Press
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https://www.facebook.com/HistoryofCartographyProject/ <-- Facebook page
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #cartographer #maps #PDF #free #online #openaccess #history #geography #commerce #trade #legal #planning #urban #culture #ancienthistory #gischat #physicalworld #representation #ancientmaps #historyofmaps #mapmaking #mapmaker #appliedscience #book #books
University of Chicago Press
"The quest for the einstein tile—a shape never seen before in mathematics—turned up even more discoveries than mathematicians counted on" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-mathematicians-search-for-the-mysterious-einstein-tile/ #Maths #Math #Mathematics #STEM
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The Romance words for "self" and "same", such as French 'même', Spanish 'mismo', and Portuguese 'mesmo', don't come from the Classical Latin words for "self" and "same".
Instead, they stem from Popular Latin *metipsimus: "the very same", or literally "self-selfest".
The infographic shows how it went:
If #reality is so intriguing, why would anyone want to #read #fiction #books?
#NonFiction #Book #AmReading #Reading #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
"These ancient DNA results reveal a relatively genetically homogeneous population in Peqi’in. We show that the movements of people within the region of the southern Levant were remarkably dynamic, with some populations, such as the one buried at Peqi’in, being formed in part by exogenous influences."
Harney, É., May, H., Shalem, D. et al. Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation. Nat Commun 9, 3336 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05649-9 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #STEM #Article #Biology #Anthropology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #MiddleEast #NearEast #Academia #Academic @science @biology @archaeodons @anthropology
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#OTD 22 December 1872 Camille Guérin was born. Together with Albert Calmette, he developed the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis.
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Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist Giovanni Boccaccio died #OTD in 1375. His most notable works are The Decameron, a collection of short stories which in the following centuries was a determining element for the Italian literary tradition. Boccaccio, along with Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarch, is part of the so-called "Three Crowns" of Italian literature.
Books by Giovanni Boccaccio at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1279
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You can download the History of Cartography from the University of Chicago Press, vols. 1-4 and 6 (a total of 8 books).
The project is nearing completion after 40 years (volume 5 is still in preparation).
You do have to download the pdfs by chapter (about 200 total) but do you have anything better to do today?
"This article explores such nuances in conceptions of fatness and thinness by examining the various ways in which bodyweight and size held meaning in the specific context of the Lutheran Reformation. Through a consideration of the bodily resurrection, apocalyptic belief and the form of heavenly bodies, it demonstrates how discussions of weight and fatness were embedded in fundamental debates about sin and salvation."
Holly Fletcher, ‘Belly-Worshippers and Greed-Paunches’: Fatness and the Belly in the Lutheran Reformation, German History, Volume 39, Issue 2, June 2021, Pages 173–200, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghab001 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Germany #German #HIstory #Histodon #Histodons #Europe #Academia #Academic @histodon @histodons
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solstice | #Etymology of solstice by etymonline
https://www.etymonline.com/word/solstice#etymonline_v_23865
"In this work, we analyze what confuses GPT-3: how the model responds to certain sensitive topics and what effects the prompt wording has on the model response. We find that GPT-3 correctly disagrees with obvious Conspiracies and Stereotypes but makes mistakes with common Misconceptions and Controversies. The model responses are inconsistent across prompts and settings, highlighting GPT-3's unreliability."
Khatun, A. and Brown, D.G. (2023) 'Reliability Check: an analysis of GPT-3’s response to sensitive topics and prompt wording,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2306.06199 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #LLM #GPT3 #MachineLearning
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Thomas Graham Scottish Chemist was born #OTD in 1805.
He is known for his pioneering work in dialysis, diffusion of gases and colloid chemistry. In applied areas, he also made fundamental discoveries related to dialysis. Graham's study of colloids resulted in his ability to separate colloids and crystalloids using a so-called "dialyzer", using technology that is a rudimentary forerunner of technology in modern kidney dialysis machines. via @wikipedia
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@bibliolater Whoa: going to have to check this out.
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Research shows that the 2,000 year old skeleton found in Cambridgeshire is of a man from a nomadic group known as Sarmatians. DNA analysis showed he was from an area that is currently southern Russia, Armenia, and Ukraine. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67755415
"This interdisciplinary study analyses the connections between literary Modernism and right-wing ideology. Moreover, it is the first academic study to explore the reception of these Modernist authors by today's far right, seeking to understand in what ways they use strategic readings of Modernist texts to legitimise right-wing ideology."
Frisch, K. (2019) The F-Word. Pound, Eliot, Lewis, and the far right. https://doi.org/10.30819/4972. #OpenAccess #OA #English #Language #Literature #Rightwing #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Reading @bookstodon (70)
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I post iterations of this graphic every month, but I can't recall seeing one this strikingly obvious in the final frame 🔥
Data from https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
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The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,” Is Free Online
"Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it is stressed that artificial algorithms attempt to mimic only the conscious function of parts of the cerebral cortex, ignoring the fact that, not only every conscious experience is preceded by an unconscious process but also that the passage from the unconscious to consciousness is accompanied by loss of information."
Athanassios S Fokas, Can artificial intelligence reach human thought?, PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 12, December 2023, pgad409, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad409 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Science #STEM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Computer #Engineering #Neuroscience #Academia #Academic @science @engineering
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.
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