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DeepMind’s AI can ‘predict how all of life’s molecules interact with each other’
"AlphaFold 3 is able to envision how the complex shapes and networks of molecules – present in every cell in the human body – are connected and how the smallest of changes in these can affect biological functions that can lead to diseases."
#News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepMind #Science #STEM #Biology #DNA @science
"The ultimate goal, I suggest, was a translatio imperii; the establishment of an imperial monarchy in the west that could rival the Habsburg empire, and which in time, perhaps, might even come to imitate the universal glory of the Roman imperium. Not the American Atlantic seaboard, but rather the continent of Europe, with its arms, its learning, and its treasure, was the goal of Bacon’s early imperial vision."
Serjeantson, R. (2024) ‘Francis Bacon, colonisation, and the limits of Atlanticism’, History of European Ideas, pp. 1–14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2338341.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #FrancisBacon #Colonialism #Imperialism #Ireland #Atlantic #EuropeanUnion #EU #Europe #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
#Image attribution: Yale Center for British Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anonymous_-_Sir_Francis_Bacon,_1st_Viscount_St_Alban_-_B1977.14.9772_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg
Why Did the World Ignore This Island for 15 Years?
#Video length: 15:20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYkuYZQopXM
#History #Histodon #Histodons #France #Slavery #Slaves #IndianOcean #EarlyModern #C18th #18thCentury #TromelinIsland #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons @earlymodern
In Praise of Slow Reading
#Video length: 6:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHeHtpb5B4w
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Mapped: Europe’s GDP Per Capita, by Country
"Europe is home to some of the largest and most sophisticated economies in the world. But how do countries in the region compare with each other on a per capita productivity basis?"
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-europes-gdp-per-capita-by-country/
#Map #Maps #Cartography #Data #DataViz #Europe #GDP #Economics
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West – review
"In As Gods Among Men, Guido Alfani examines the history of the rich in the West from the Middle Ages to modern times, including paths to wealth, societal perceptions and their resilience against shocks."
#Read #Reading #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #BookReview #Review #History #EconHist #EconHistory
@bookstodon
"As we can discern from Plutarch and Appian, beyond the socio-economic impacts, the ancient historians equated the displacement of the family-run smallholdings with the slave-dependent Latifundia with a concurrent moral decline that degraded the Roman Republic."
Gale, Alexander. "How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/slavery-ancient-rome-plebeian-farmers-poverty/ (accessed May 7, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Rome #Romans #Empire #Europe #Slavery #Farmers #Farming @histodon @histodons
How Private Equity Consumed America
#Video length: 22 minutes 23 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK8hpxR_r2Y
#PrivateEquity #Finance #Capital #Capitalism #Business @finance
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Food insecurity is “off the scales” in universities, say researchers. Some universities have opened places to get food banks and food pantries, others have group chats to announce where to score free leftovers. #academia #academicchatter #students https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01279-y?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=b86875fed9-nature-briefing-daily-20240507&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-b86875fed9-50179668
"...our data suggested that the Japanese population could be best modeled by admixtures of three ancestral components (hereafter K1 to K3). K1 to K3 were the highest in Okinawa, Northeast, and West, respectively (Fig. 1D and table S4). K1 (Okinawa) component maintains a relatively stable fraction of around 12% in Hondo subgroups, except for South (which is a region adjacent to Okinawa), with a higher proportion of 22%. K2 (Northeast) and K3 (West) components showed a cline from West to East."
Xiaoxi Liu et al., Decoding triancestral origins, archaic introgression, and natural selection in the Japanese population by whole-genome sequencing. Sci. Adv. 10, eadi8419 (2024). DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi8419
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Population #Genetics #Genome #Genomics #Japan #Japanese #Asia @science
TikTok Conspiracy Theory: Ancient Rome Never Existed? A Classicist Reacts
#Video length: 46 minutes 10 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXvI5aopXA
#Debunking #Tiktok #Conspiracy #Ancient #Rome #Roman #Romans #Empire #History #Histodon #Histodons #Classics @histodon @histodons
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Advanced economies face declining GDP per capita – It’s time to increase public investment, if private corporations are reluctant to invest, chart @economics https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-05/global-housing-crisis-affects-immigration-fueled-growth-living-standards?cmpid=BBD050624_NEF&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=240506&utm_campaign=nef
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#India ‘s economic growth has come at an environmental cost: #India is already the 3rd -largest emitter of CO2 despite low per capita #emissions of 2 tons annually, compared to the US which is 8x as much or #China at 4x the amount, chart @MorganStanley
Not something you will find me ever trying...
"The death-defying sport of climbing frozen waterfalls | 60 Minutes Australia"
#Video length: 59 seconds
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Population zero in 3255? By this scenario (in which the global total fertility rate falls rapidly to 1.66), by 2205 — 181 years from now — we would be back down the the global #population level of the year 2000. #demography
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/x-axis-manipulation-and-depopulation-panic/
Why so many Norse gods have multiple names
#Video length: 58 seconds
A New Audience for the World’s First Author
"Around year 2000 BCE, the Sumerian language, in which the poems are written, died out as a native language, becoming instead a language of scholarship and religious rituals, much like Latin in Europe and Sanskrit in India. And so, it had to be taught in schools, and the copying of Sumerian poems—including those attributed to Enheduana—was a key part of the school curriculum in ancient Babylonian cities like Nippur and Ur."
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/05/06/a-new-audience-for-the-worlds-first-author/
#Ancient #History #Essays #Poetry #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Science Doesn't Understand How Ice Forms
"What starts off as a simple desire to get a macro shot of a droplet of water freezing quickly leads George to the very edge of scientific knowledge and a shocking fact about most of the water on Earth."
#Video length: 10 minutes 31 seconds
https://youtu.be/24TB1vPuzIU
A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics
"Weil’s Rosetta stone linked three fields of mathematics: number theory, geometry, and, in the middle, the study of finite fields.
Other mathematicians had proposed ideas in this direction, but Weil was the first to spell out an exact vision."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-rosetta-stone-for-mathematics-20240506/
@science Apart from the profit motive for animal husbandry businesses, why would they even want to try to do this?
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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