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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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@linguistics Falling or would the word 'plummeting' be more appropriate?
Yorkshire apostrophe fans demand road signs with nowt taken out
"Council says punctuation mark must go to suit computer databases, but grammar purists see signs of falling standards"
#News #England #Yorkshire #English #Language #Grammar #Linguistics @linguistics
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Globe: 540 Million Years of Planet Earth
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2024/05/540-million-years-of-planet-earth.html
In the end hubris nearly always leads them to their nemesis. If only they could comprehend.
The art of the bee
"As I set out to write a book on honey bee biology, I kept Humboldt as an aspirational model. Rather than write the typical biology text that reflected an excavation of levels of biological organization like taxonomy, biogeography, physiology, anatomy, etc., I built chapters around themes relating to honey bee impacts, behavior, and ecology."
https://blog.oup.com/2024/05/the-art-of-the-bee/
#Read #Reading #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Science #Biology #STEM @bookstodon @science @biology
Haxagen World
"Hexagen World is a game world generated by players using AI prompts. The game is similar to the popular r/Place project. However in Hexagen World instead of users adding one pixel to a collaborative image they can add AI generated hexagon tiles to a world map."
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2024/05/haxagen-world.html
The age structure of populations varies widely across countries
"Over the last 70 years, birth rates have declined in most countries, and life expectancy has increased, leading to aging populations worldwide."
"Infant mortality rates have plummeted over the last 50 years.
Globally, they’ve fallen by over two-thirds, from around 10% in 1974 to less than 3% today.
The study’s researchers estimate that 40% of this decline is due to vaccines."
Hannah Ritchie (2024) - “Vaccines have saved 150 million children over the last 50 years” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/vaccines-children-saved' [Online Resource]
#Data #DataViz #Science #Health #Vaccines #Research @science
Scientists are trying to get cows pregnant with synthetic embryos
"Synthetic embryos are clones, too—of the starting cells you grow them from. But they’re made without the need for eggs and can be created in far larger numbers—in theory, by the tens of thousands."
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“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars…Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo and #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/how-helsinki-and-oslo-cut-pedestrian-deaths-to-zero
The Origins of the Rapture
"The Rapture: The belief that Jesus will remove all true Christians from the Earth prior to the end of the world and establishment of his kingdom. The belief is mostly found among American Evangelicals and is part of the larger theological framework called Dispensational Premillennialism. But where did this belief come from?"
#Video #Religion #Evangelical #Christianity #Theology #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Rapture #Jesus #Christ #JesusChrist #Bible #NewTestament @christianity @religion @theology
Discussing Teb Tengri and the Religious Views of Chinggis Khan
"Included is discussions of historical sources (Juvaini, Rashid al-Din, the Secret History of the Mongols) letters written by Hulegu Khan and Chinggis Khan's views (or lack there of?) towards Buddhism."
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #Religion #MongolEmpire #Asia #Empire #GenghisKhan #ChinggisKhan @histodon @histodons
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In Standard English, 'Wednesday' is pronounced without a /d/. Then why's it written with a d?
The word comes from a West Germanic name meaning "Woden's day", Woden being the god that's nowadays most often called Odin.
D-less forms such as 'Wennesdai' are attested from the 14th century.
Click the video to hear how the word evolved between the second century AD and now.
The Middle English to Early Modern English stages are based on the dialect of the region of London.
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One of the favorite quotes of the week came as #Fed Chair Powell said, “I was around for stagflation...I don’t see the stag or the -flation.” – chart @JPMorganAM
"Banana republics are Central American and Caribbean nations exploited by multinational businesses and imperialist governments."
Stoyack, Aaron. "What Is a Banana Republic?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-a-banana-republic/ (accessed May 4, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Imperialism #Empire #Corporations #BananaRepublics #LatinAmerica #Caribbean @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Rosendahl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_bananas_tree.jpg
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Comparing the spatial patterns of changes in May temperature anomalies in the #Arctic versus #Antarctic by decadal means...
Since reading the chapter concerning Descartes from Bertrand Russell's 'History of Western Philosophy' earlier today, I have come to the conclusion that since I toot therefore I am.
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Philosophy
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The Verge published the most spammy article they could write, including AI-generated content, to prove how broken Google search truly is.
The article currently ranks number 1 for the key phrase "best printer"
Lol, lmao.
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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