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🇬🇧 From a different age: "Dangers of Smoking 1957".
#Video #Smoking #Cigarette #Tobacco #Health #History #Vintage #C20th #20thCentury #Television #TV #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #BritishPathe
"Under a middle-of-the road scenario of future income development (SSP2, in which SSP stands for Shared Socio-economic Pathway), this corresponds to global annual damages in 2049 of 38 trillion in 2005 international dollars (likely range of 19–59 trillion 2005 international dollars)."
Kotz, M., Levermann, A. & Wenz, L. The economic commitment of climate change. Nature 628, 551–557 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07219-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics @climatechange
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@bibliolater There's a reason it was reportedly one of Thatcher's favourite programmes.
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Another source of increasing market #concentration is among sectors, as #technology, media, and #telecom stocks have continued to capture a rising share of the global stock market, particularly in the US but also in other markets such as #Asia - chart @Goldmansachs
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#degrowth
A new #book “Growth – A Reckoning” @danielsusskind April 16, 2024 @PenguinUKBooks https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/446381/growth-by-susskind-daniel/9780241542309
🇬🇧 "The university staff are lobbying hard to increase their funding in a funny clip from Yes Minister, a classic BBC British comedy series."
https://youtu.be/WW7mhtp5a5E
#Video #Comedy #Education #Funding #University #Politics #Satire #Television #TV #Sitcom #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Academia #Academic #Academics
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#Dataviz books everyone should read 📚 - a community sourced listicle. Created in association with @datavizsociety #iibwab
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/dataviz-books/
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@linguistics @bibliolater Hej alla runologer. Har ni prövat denna metod?
🏴 Spikkin Scots
"The Scottish newspaper the Press and Journal has published a series of articles about the Scots language. This series includes a Spikkin Scots interactive map which features a number of sound recordings of people speaking Scots across the whole of Scotland."
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2020/11/spikken-scots.html
#Map #Maps #Cartography #Language #Linguistics #Sound #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom @linguistics
"This study is the first attempt to apply the masked language modeling approach to corrupted inscriptions in Hebrew and Aramaic languages, both using the Hebrew alphabet consisting mostly of consonant symbols. In our experiments, we evaluate several transformer-based models, which are fine-tuned on the Biblical texts and tested on three different percentages of randomly masked parts in the testing corpus."
Niv Fono, Harel Moshayof, Eldar Karol, Itai Assraf, and Mark Last. 2024. Embible: Reconstruction of Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic Texts Using Transformers. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024, pages 846–852, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-eacl.56
#ComputationalLinguistics #Linguistics #Ancient #Hebrew #Aramaic #Language #Languages @linguistics
Time management tips for PhD students
#Video #PhD #Tips #Academia #Academic #Academics #AcademicChatter @academicchatter
"An interview with Prof. Marcus du Sautoy about his book Around the Wold in Eighty Games . . . .a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games."
https://zencastr.com/z/nI-9Rb54
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Audio #Podcast #Games #MarcusDuSautoy #Maths #Mathematics #Math @bookstodon
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Why GM Committed $650M for Lithium Mined Here | WSJ
"The U.S. is racing to secure its own lithium and nickel, which is used in battery production for products like EVs and other tech. Today, China produces more than 85% of the world’s batteries. So how is the U.S. pushing to mine battery metals needed for the energy transition and for national security?"
#WSJ #Video #Tech #Technology #EV #Batteries #Metal #Mining #Energy #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #China @technology
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@FallsMom It seems like these "publishers" are taking advantage of the fact that a lot of people don't pay attention while they're shopping on Amazon — so they think they're buying Kara Swisher's autobiography but they're actually buying a biography of her by three ghostwriters and an AI in a long overcoat. There are also instances where "publishers" publish AI-generated books under the names of existing authors. You can read more about that here: https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated/
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Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks, often a result of keyword scrapers finding trending topics, and then so-called publishers using AI and cheap ghostwriters to generate books. "If, as they used to say, everyone has a book in them, AI has created a world where tech utopianists dream openly about excising the human part of writing a book — any amount of artistry or craft or even just sheer effort — and replacing it with machine-generated streams of text," writes Vox's Constance Grady. Here's her story about the underbelly of online self-publishing.
#Books @bookstodon #Culture #Amazon #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Writing
#WordOfTheDay: vade-mecum (n.)
"a pocket manual, handbook," 1620s, Latin, literally "go with me;" from imperative of vadere "to go" (see vamoose) + me "me" + cum "with." also from 1620s.
#Citation: Harper Douglas, “Etymology of vade-mecum,” Online Etymology Dictionary, accessed April 15, 2024, https://www.etymonline.com/word/vade-mecum.
#Word #Words #Etymology #Lexicon #Dictionary #C17th #17thCentury #Latin #English #Language #Languages
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Are there any good, digitally accessible primary source collections re: Cherokee removal/Trail of Tears that features or focuses on sources created by Cherokee individuals?
Some initial searching leads me to the WPA-era Indian-Pioneer collection, for memories of removal.
https://ualrexhibits.org/tribalwriters/artifacts/Family-Stories-Trail-of-Tears.html
https://digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/pioneer/
But I am having trouble finding much beyond that. Asking for a student!
Finding Meno: the problem with learning
"Education is not about imparting knowledge but about nurturing the conditions under which learning can flourish and knowledge can develop."
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/15/finding-meno-the-problem-with-learning/
#Education #Learning #Teaching #Studying #Knowledge #Socrates #Plato #Philosophy @philosophy
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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.
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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