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#WordOfTheDay: bucolic (adj.)
"pastoral, relating to country life or the affairs and occupations of a shepherd," 1610s, earlier bucolical (1520s), from Latin bucolicus, from Greek boukolikos "pastoral, rustic," from boukolos "cowherd, herdsman," from bous "cow" (from PIE root *gwou- "ox, bull, cow") + -kolos "tending," related to Latin colere "to till (the ground), cultivate, dwell, inhabit" (from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell"). Middle Irish búachaill, Welsh bugail "shepherd" are Celtic words formed from the same root material as Greek boukolos.
also from 1610s".
#Citation: Harper Douglas, “Etymology of bucolic,” Online Etymology Dictionary, accessed April 14, 2024, https://www.etymonline.com/word/bucolic.
#Word #Words #Etymology #Lexicon #Dictionary #C17th #17thCentury #Latin #Greek #English #Language #Languages
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Dutch Cartographer Abraham Ortelius was born 14 April 1527
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/abraham-ortelius-and-the-16th-century-information-age/
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17th century Dutch physicist, Christiaan Huygens was born 14 April 1629
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/the-huygens-enigma
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Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-indigenous-lineage-of-blackfoot-confederacy-goes-back-18000-years-to-last-ice-age-dna-reveals #genetics #Blackfoot #DNA #US #Canada #indigenous
#WordOfTheDay: hecatomb (n.)
"1590s, from Latinized form of Greek hekatombe, properly (and literally) "offering of 100 oxen," but generally "a great public sacrifice." It is a compound of hekaton "one hundred," which perhaps is dissimilation of *hem-katon, with hen, neuter of heis "one" + *katon "hundred." The second element is bous "ox" (from PIE root *gwou- "ox, bull, cow"). The first month of the Attic calendar (corresponding to July-August) was Hekatombaion, in which sacrifices were made."
#Citation: Harper Douglas, “Etymology of hecatomb,” Online Etymology Dictionary, accessed April 13, 2024, https://www.etymonline.com/word/hecatomb.
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Hegel and History
"The lesson here for contemporary politics is clear and significant. Rather than disavowing our circumstances and dismissing our cultural and intellectual traditions as morally compromised or tainted by history, we ought to be examining the long-term historical processes that have led us to this conjuncture and employing the existing resources at our disposal to surmount its challenges."
https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/13/hegel-and-history/
#Politics #History #Histodon #Histodons #Culture #Ideas #PoliticalScience #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @politicalscience
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"On this day in 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died. Here is a British Movietone report with highlights of his life"
#Video #OTD #History #Histodon #Histodons #FDR #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Politics @histodon @histodons
Do American family names make sense?
"The underlying cause for the disconnect is that names, unlike words, don’t have to stay meaningful in order to do their job of identifying individuals or groups of people. In fact, most American family names make no sense at all today and it is fascinating to uncover their original meanings and what they tell us about the history of the people who bear them. Hereditary surnames are especially vulnerable to changes in pronunciation that obscure their original senses."
https://blog.oup.com/2024/04/do-american-family-names-make-sense/
#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Names #Humanities #Dictionaries #Lexicography #Linguistics @linguistics
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Precise answers to useless questions
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2024/04/12/precise-answers-to-useless-questions/
Disappearing tongues: the endangered language crisis – podcast
"Linguistic diversity on Earth is far more profound and fundamental than previously imagined. But it’s also crumbling fast. By Ross Perlin".
#Language #Languages #Linguistics #Audio #Podcast #LongReads @linguistics
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"Our analysis of 49 coins from the North Sea zone indicates that Byzantine silver plate was the source of silver for the initial minting of the first post-Roman silver coins in England, Frisia and parts of Francia. From c. AD 750, freshly mined silver from Melle, Aquitaine, was introduced to this North Sea zone, becoming the dominant source following the coinage reforms of AD 793."
Kershaw, J. et al. (2024) ‘Byzantine plate and Frankish mines: the provenance of silver in north-west European coinage during the Long Eighth Century (c. 660–820)’, Antiquity, 98(398), pp. 502–517. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.33. #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Europe #MiddleAges #Byzantine #Analysis #Coinage #Archaeology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
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Is ChatGPT corrupting peer review? Telltale words hint at AI use https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01051-2
What a commendable, meticulous and intricate article!
🇬🇧 Amazing Ice Cream Factory 1957
"Filmed at J. Lyons & Co. (Kensington, 1957)"
#Video #IceCream #Manufacturing #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Vintage
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Ocean currents threaten to collapse Antarctic ice shelves
"Our findings challenge conventional wisdom," Nakayama says. "Our study underscores that the interplay between meandering ocean currents and the ocean floor generates upwelling velocity, bringing warm water to shallower depths. Subsequently, this warm water reaches the ice-ocean interface, accelerating ice shelf melting
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ocean-currents-threaten-collapse-antarctic.html
How a brawl in 18th-century Constantinople changed what we know about the Vikings
"Ibn Fadlan’s first-hand account of the Rus and their funerary rituals has secured his reputation as an important source for the study of ritual and belief across the Viking world. Nowhere else do we encounter eyewitness insight into this kind of Viking funerary ritual."
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Vikings #Russia #C18th #18thCentury @histodon @histodons
"This essay will read Hegel's comments on the Orient in light of his larger philosophy and then examine how Japanese scholars, specifically Okakura Tenshin (1863–1913) construct what could be called a Hegel-inspired defense of the concept of Asia or the Orient."
Murthy, V. (2024) ‘Rescuing Hegel from Eurocentrism: Oriental Reconstructions of Hegel’s Orient’, Hegel Bulletin, pp. 1–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2024.13. #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Essay #DOI #Philosophy #Hegel #Orient #Asia @philosophy
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"Drawing on a national survey (N = 1,003), we found that U.S. adults evaluated fact-checking labels created by professional fact checkers as more effective than labels by algorithms and other users. News media labels were perceived as more effective than user labels but not statistically different from labels by fact checkers and algorithms."
Jia, C. & Lee, T. (2024). Journalistic interventions matter: Understanding how Americans perceive fact-checking labels. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-138 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #SocialMedia #Facts #Misinformation #FactChecking #Journalism #Algorithms
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