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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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🇨🇳 Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China?
"The large economic growth that lifted 800 million Chinese people out of extreme poverty since 1990 was a major contributor to the global decline in poverty. But the non-Chinese world also achieved a very large reduction."
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/was-the-global-decline-of-extreme-poverty-only-due-to-china
"This paper presents the first empirical evidence in the history of banking on the question of whether banks can create money out of nothing. The banking crisis has revived interest in this issue, but it had remained unsettled."
Werner, R.A. (2014) 'Can banks individually create money out of nothing? — The theories and the empirical evidence,' International Review of Financial Analysis, 36, pp. 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2014.07.015. #OpenAccess #OA #History #Economics #Finance #Banking #Bank #Banks #Credit #Money @economics @banking
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‘Second renaissance’: tech uncovers ancient scroll secrets of Plato and co
"The project belongs to a new wave of efforts that seek to read, restore and translate ancient and even lost languages with cutting-edge technologies. Armed with modern tools, many powered by artificial intelligence, scholars are starting to read what had long been considered unreadable."
#Archaeodons #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Archaeology #Heritage #Plato @archaeodons
Visualizing Global Inflation Forecasts (2024-2026)
"After hitting a peak of 8.7% in 2022, global inflation is projected to fall to 5.9% in 2024, reflecting promising inflation trends amid resilient global growth."
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-global-inflation-forecasts-2024-2026/
In Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Tim O’Reilly and Ilan Strauss on Algorithmic Attention Rents
"A conversation about how today’s big tech platforms use the power they hold over the attention of billions of users to shape the markets in which they participate for their own benefit."
#Video length: 56 minutes and 46 seconds
#Tech #Technology #STEM #Conversation #Algorithms #Economics @economics
Video of sun’s surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss
"Scientists say the observations of the sun’s complex surface dynamics could help resolve the question of why the sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface – a longstanding paradox in solar physics."
#Science #News #Video #Sun #Space #ESA #Europe #Astronomy @science @astronomy
Why is a huge chunk of Earth's history missing?
#Video length: 58seconds
Space Day Reading List 2024
"Space has fascinated authors, scientists, storytellers, and children alike. From a brief history of the moon to a collection of diverse stories connected to the stars, our Space Day reading list will deepen your love and appreciation of the cosmos."
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/05/03/space-day-reading-list-2024/
#Read #Reading #ReadingList #STEM #Space #SpaceDay #Science #HistSci #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon @science
🇬🇧 🇪🇺 "Our results show that individuals who lacked wealth are less likely to support leaving the EU, explaining why so many Brexit voters were wealthy, in terms of their property wealth."
Green, J. and Pahontu, R.L. (2024) ‘Mind the Gap: Why Wealthy Voters Support Brexit’, British Journal of Political Science, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123423000728.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Brexit #Politics #PoliticalScience #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
#Image attribution: TeroVesalainen, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_jack_and_eu_brexit.jpg
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#German -led #austerity didn't work then. It won't work now. #stagnant growth and #productivity should raise alarm bells, not rising public debt, chart @LionelRALaurent https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-02/european-economy-worry-about-growth-not-debt-levels
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#Japan is the world’s largest foreign holder of UST --- #BoJ ‘s share of UST outstanding, chart @ReutersBiz https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/if-japan-exhausts-intervention-slush-fund-treasuries-may-wobble-mcgeever-2024-05-01/
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The Impossible Map [video, 1947]
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https://www.nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/ <--link to video
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[still an excellent teaching aid, and who doesn’t like the idea of mangling a grapefruit with a rolling pin?! (turnips not so much…) ~wink~ ]
“Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth...”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #mapprojections #geography #coordinates #film #video #education #training #onlinelearning
@thenfb
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#YouTube is excited about pause screen #ads — and they're coming for your TV first - https://mashable.com/article/youtube-pause-screen-ads-coming-for-tvs-first more ads - just what everyone is asking for...
What happens when the permafrost thaws? | The Royal Society
"Around 11% of the Earth's land mass is covered by permafrost. But its delicate balance is being threatened by climate change."
#Video length: 8 minutes 14 seconds
#RoyalSociety #Science #Permafrost #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @science @climatechange
🇬🇧 Maths degrees are becoming less accessible – and this is a problem for business, government and innovation
"Research carried out in 2019 by King’s College London and Ipsos found that half of the working age population had the numeracy skills expected of a child at primary school. Just as worrying was that despite this, 43% of those polled said “they would not like to improve their numeracy skills”."
#Mathematics #Maths #Math #University #Education #Degree #UK #UnitedKingdom @education
1861-1865: The Complete Story Of The American Civil War | History Of Warfare | Timeline
"Less than a century after gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States of America would be wracked by a Civil War as the secessionist Confederate States of the South fought the Union forces of the remaining loyal states. Four long years of war would result in the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the fate of the Union hung in the balance."
#Video length: 54 minutes 40 seconds
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #C19th #19thCentury @histodon @histodons
Early Modern Genres of History
Johnsen, E.N., & Stovner, I.L. (Eds.). (2024). Early Modern Genres of History (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003331971
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon
@histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (81)
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656 years ago today, in 1368, the Icelander Thorsteinn Eyjolfsson was captured by soldiers from Lübeck somewhere in Norway.
Never heard of him? Ok:
Thorsteinn was one of the most powerful men in Iceland at the time. Iceland was ruled from Norway, and Thorsteinn was several times "hirðstjóri", the Norwegian king's top guy in Iceland.
Now Norway was at war with loads of German cities and territories. Thorsteinn happened to be in Norway when the war broke out.
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#history #histodons
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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