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Not a bot just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
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Did you know: Helsinki (Finland) is closer to Alaska than it is to New York City?
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Here's a beautiful oddity: This nebula was created by a very rare type of supernova that HALF-exploded 800 years ago.
Two white dwarf stars collided & detonated, lighting up Earth's skies. Somehow one of the white dwarfs survived, leaving behind the hottest star in our galaxy.
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/03/Marvel_at_stunning_echo_of_800-year-old_explosion?rand=771654 #space #science #astronomy #nature
"For some people, their status was elevated still further by the widely publicized discovery in 2007 that some Neanderthals carried genes suggesting they had red hair and light skin. These ancient inhabitants of Europe and Asia became coded as white, and on social media some people began to claim Neanderthal ancestry as a mark of racial superiority." http://www.doi.org/10.1126/science.z6n7io6 #DOI #Science #STEM #Anthropology #Neanderthals #Racism #Racist @science @anthropology
#Image attribution: Gary Todd, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Moustier_Neanderthal_Skull_reconstitution_Neues_Museum_Berlin.jpg
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The ancient Romans had an alternative to daylight savings time.
BBC News reports: "Twice a year, around a third of the world's countries perform a hotly-debated ritual: meddling with time to create longer summer evenings and brighter winter mornings."
"Examining current temperature increases, it seemed to this observer that scientists have been underestimating for some time how quickly the situation is deteriorating." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/29/copernicus-online-portal-offers-terrifying-view-climate-emergency #Climate #ClimateChnage #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Weather #Science #STEM #News @science @climatechange @climatecrisis
"To experience the popes and their city from afar meant to gaze upon metres-long rolls of an unfamiliar, precious, Egyptian fabric, and to watch them being unfurled in a church, palace, or place of assembly, to reveal decrees penned in a strange southern Italian script, sometimes even an Arabic one that looked stranger still. Was this the Rome of Bede, Offa, Wulfstan, Æthelred? " https://blog.oup.com/2024/03/england-and-egypt-in-the-early-middle-ages-the-papal-connection/ #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #Literature #MiddleEast #England #Egypt #Medieval #Rome #Medievodons @histodon @histodons @medievodons
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This will either melt your head or set you up for the day!
Deriving Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation via thermodynamics and entropy in a holographic Universe 🧠🧐🤯
#QOTO: is there any way on the desktop version to schedule toots?
"Archaeology supports the conclusion that Brittany was not founded in the mid-fifth century. A foundation in the late fourth century is most compatible with the archaeological evidence, limited though it is."
Howells, Caleb. "Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/magnus-maximus-founded-brittany/ (accessed March 28, 2024). #History #Histodon #Histodons #Britanny #France #Britain #Europe @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maximus_Magnus_Clemens.jpg
Will this new feature reduce attention spans even further? https://www.indiewire.com/news/analysis/youtube-jump-ahead-feature-1234968839/ ~via @indiewire #Youtube #Video #News #Internet #Streaming #Tech #Technology #Ask #Question
A lucky chap.
Man With Broken Metal Detector Unearths Largest Gold Nugget Ever Found in England https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/amateur-treasure-hunter...
"Behind this disagreeable theological dispute between eastern and western churches, we gain precious insight into how the premodern mind understood fermentation, and especially what distinguishes it from rot and decay." https://theconversation.com/a-eucharist-of-sourdough-or-wafer-what-a-thousand-year-old-religious-quarrel-tells-us-about-fermentation-212698 #Christianity #Religion #Theology #Catholic #Orthodox #Church #Eucharist #Fermentation #Bread #Byzantine #Sourdough @religion @theology @christianity
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(good news) The fastest #wage growth over the last 4y among historically disadvantaged groups- low-wage workers’ wages surged after decades of slow growth, chart @economicpolicy
A New Map of Denmark and Sweden. (insets) Five scenes of the life of the Laplanders. North Part of Norway, Lapland, and Greenland. https://archive.org/details/dr_a-new-map-of-denmark-and-sweden-insets-five-scenes-of-the-life-of-the-la-9729016 ~via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #History #Denmark #Sweden #Norway #Lapland #Greenland #Europe #C18th #18thCentury #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
"In this paper we examine multiple discrete emotions people experience in reaction to climate change, and assess the strength of these emotions as predictors of support for different types of mitigation and adaptation policies."
Myers TA, Roser-Renouf C, Leiserowitz A, Maibach E (2024) Emotional signatures of climate policy support. PLOS Climate 3(3): e0000381. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000381 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #PeerReview #DOI #Emotions #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #Politics #Policy #Academia #Academic #Academics @climatechange
"Can you be authentic if you lie about what you value, believe, or feel? This brief article explores this question and the unique stances on honesty that different notions of authenticity take."
Leuenberger, M. (2024) ‘The Authentic Liar’, Think, 23(67), pp. 27–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477175623000465 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Ethics #Philosophy #Academia #Academic #Academics @philosophy
"Few Philosophers have gone down in history quite like Diogenes the Cynic. He was a rebel, a vagabond, a beggar, and a hero." https://youtu.be/OZyM4h2UEjc #Philosophy #Video @philosophy
The joy of #writing with a fine #fountainpen can never be over estimated!
#Ink #Inks #FountainPens #Pen #Pens
#Image attribution: Daniel López, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sheaffer_m.jpg
Not a bot just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
