Nice little piece on some of the photocopy techniques for copying #maps ... https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/05/copy-that/?loclr=eamap
“Because a growing share of Americans hold highly unfavourable views of big corporations, we argue that the belief that large firms win from trade will provoke hostility towards trade and globalization. To test this theory, we show experimentally that informing people that large corporations benefit from trade makes them markedly more hostile towards trade compared to a treatment emphasizing that firms in exporting industries benefit.”
Menon, A. and Osgood, I. (2024) βThe Wrong Winners: Anti-Corporate Animus and Attitudes Towards Tradeβ, British Journal of Political Science, pp. 1β18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123424000152.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #PoliticalScience #Politics #International #Trade #Globalisation #Globalization #Corporations #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
#deindustrialisation -- #Schuldenbremse , high #energy costs, weak global #demand, a disruptive shift towards net-zero economies, and growing competition from #China are raising existential questions for #Germany 's economic model, chart @ReutersBiz https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/s-fears-german-de-industrialisation-may-be-overblown-now-2024-05-16/
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#facebook #social #media #SocialMedia #fake #news #FakeNews #disinformation #meta
@bibliolater I like this chart, clean and uncluttered with a clear story to tell.
"Focusing on classical philologists and biblical scholars in nineteenth-century Germany, it examines how Hyperkritik developed from a technical philological term into a pejorative label that was widely invoked to discredit the latest trends in classical philology and, especially, biblical scholarship."
Paul, H. (2024) βHypercriticism: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Viceβ, Modern Intellectual History, pp. 1β25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244324000155.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Philology #Language #Rhetoric #History #Histodon #Histodons #Bible #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
Found at last: long-lost branch of the Nile that ran by the pyramids
"The highest concentration of pyramids in Egypt can be found in a stretch of desert between Giza and the village of Lisht. These sites are now several dozens of kilometres away from the Nile River. But Egyptologists have long suspected that the Nile might once have been closer to that stretch than it is today.
Satellite images and geological data now confirm that a tributary of the Nile β which researchers have named the Ahramat Branch β used to run near many of the major sites in the region several thousand years ago."
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01449-y
#DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Geology #Egypt #Pyramids #Nile @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
"After a thorough examination, we may conclude that the itemβs amateurish preparation and local origin are suggestive of a scribal exercise. The use of an available mould that was not suitable for a tablet, the childβs fingerprint on the reverse and the corrected mistakes in the script all point to an inexperienced scribe."
FossΓ©, C. et al. (2024) βArchaeo-Material Study of the Cuneiform Tablet from Tel Beth-Shemeshβ, Tel Aviv, 51(1), pp. 3β17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03344355.2024.2327796.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Antiquity #Antiquidons #BronzeAge #Cuneiform #Ugarit #Canaan #Canaanite #Semite #Alphabet #Epigraphy #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @antiquidons
Global population growth peaked six decades ago
“The growth rate peaked in 1963 at over 2% per year, and since then, it has more than halved, falling to less than 1% by 2020.”
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/global-population-growth-peaked-six-decades-ago
[I wonder if there is any relationship between the price of gold and monetary policy?]
Why Gold Is More Valuable Than Ever Now
“WSJ breaks down the factors driving goldβs historic rise, and what makes it different from previous rallies.”
#Video length: five minutes and thirty three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYu-xnjwN4Q
#Gold #Markets #Investing #Economy #MonetaryPolicy #Money #Wealth #Economics #Finance #WSJ @economics
Mapped: The 10 U.S. States With the Lowest Real GDP Growth
“Delaware witnessed the slowest growth in the country, with real GDP growth of -1.2% over the year as a sluggish finance and insurance sector dampened the stateβs economy.”
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-states-by-lowest-real-gdp-growth/
#Data #DataViz #Housing #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Economy #GDP #Jobs #InterestRates @data
How do we use the Earthβs land?
“There are a few pretty big takeaways here. For one, the fact that agriculture takes up almost half of habitable land. Humankind has, over the past 1000 years, turned 120,000 square kilometers of wild habitat into farmland β an area equal to the USA 13 times over.
That, of course, makes agriculture the absolute number one cause of deforestation and our planetβs diminishing biodiversity.”
https://blog.datawrapper.de/land-use-animal-agriculture/
#Data #DataViz #Agriculture #Farming #Earth #Biodiversity #Environment #Deforestation @data
#Image attribution: mxwegeleSasin Tipchai, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indigenous_buffalo_agriculture.jpg
“Four factors are found to be significant predictors of the position of primary stress: endings, word complexity, the segmental structure of the final syllable, and syllable count. Moreover, this study confirms previous observations on the tendency for American English to have more final stress in French loanwords than British English.”
Dabouis, Q. and Fournier, P. (2024) βStress in French loanwords in British and American Englishβ, Journal of Linguistics, pp. 1β26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226724000136.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Linguistics #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #GB #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #France #French #English #LoanWord #LoanWords #Word #Words #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics
John Miltonβs notes discovered
"John Miltonβs handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles, a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet."
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/john-miltons-notes-discovered-2024
#Literature #Poetry #Poem #Poems @poetry @literature
#Image attribution: William Faithorne, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Milton_Met_DP886207.jpg
The world according to Greek historian Herodotus in 450 BC.
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/650987417390710784/the-world-according-to-greek-historian-herodotus
Nature earns ire over lack of code availability for Google DeepMind protein folding paper β Retraction Watch
#StructuralBiology @strucbio
#Alphafold #Google #Bioinformatics
Is this the End of Reading?
Students are coming to college less able and less willing to read. Professors are stymied.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-this-the-end-of-reading
How to measure the Earth
“The first known calculation of the Earthβs circumference was made 2300 years ago by a man called Eratosthenes. I remember in school, how impressed I was by how accurately the Earthβs circumference was measured such long time ago. Today weβre going to take a closer look on how his calculation was made.”
https://blog.datawrapper.de/earth-circumference-eratosthenes/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #HistSci #STEM #Earth @histodon @histodons
Top 10 Countries Most in Debt to the IMF
“We compiled this ranking using the International Monetary Fundβs data on Total IMF Credit Outstanding. We selected the latest debt data for each country, accurate as of April 29, 2024.”
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/top-10-countries-most-in-debt-to-the-imf/
#Data #DataViz #Markets #Debt #IMF #Economy #Finance #InternationalMonetaryFund
Glimpse of next-generation internet
“The Harvard team established the practical makings of the first quantum internet by entangling two quantum memory nodes separated by optical fiber link deployed over a roughly 22-mile loop through Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, and Boston.”
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/glimpse-of-next-generation-internet/
#News #Science #STEM #Tech #Technology #Internet #Quantum #Computer #Network #Harvard #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
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.
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