Bibliolater ๐๐๐ @bibliolater@qoto.org
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 โ 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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Joined Nov 2022
Minds in the Margins: Annotators Bringing Books to Life
“We recently had a remarkable copy of Apianusโs Cosmographicus liber (1533), a treatise on geography and astronomy. Its value lies in the extensive annotations, especially in the one on leaf XXXIV, shown below. The note corrects the text by adding the name of Columbus as one of Americaโs discoverers alongside Vespucci, and reports a learned tradition that America was known to Augustan Rome by quoting two lines from the Aeneid.”
https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/minds-in-the-margins-annotators-bringing-books-to-life/
#Annotation #Marginalia #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
The Start of De-Dollarization: Chinaโs Gradual Move Away from the USD
“In the first few months of 2010, settlements in local currency accounted for less than 1.0% of Chinaโs cross-border payments, compared to approximately 83.0% in USD.
China has since closed that gap. In March 2023, the share of the RMB in Chinaโs settlements surpassed the USD for the first time.”
#China #US #USA #UnitedStates #USD #Trade #International #ForeignExchange #Dollar #Data #DataViz #Business
Hermeneutical disarmament
“Hermeneutical disarmament is the process by which a person is rendered less able to understand or communicate experiences, ideas, and other phenomena as a result of semantic change to the linguistic resources that could previously have been deployed for these purposes.”
Robert Morgan, Hermeneutical disarmament, The Philosophical Quarterly, 2024;, pqae046, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae046
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Philosophy #Semantics #Language #Linguistics @philosophy @linguistics
Ancient genomes revealed the complex human interactions of the ancient western Tibetans
“Outside the Tibetan Plateau, the western Tibetan Plateau populations interacted with both South and Central Asian populations at least 2,000 years ago, and the South Asian-related genetic influence, despite being very limited, was from the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) migrants in Central Asia instead of the IVC populations from the Indus Valley.”
‘Ancient genomes revealed the complex human interactions of the ancient western Tibetans’ (2024) ScienceDirect. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.068.
#OpenAccess #OA #Reseach #DOI #Ancient #DNA #AncientDNA #Tibet #Population #History #IndusValleyCivilization #IVC #SouthAsia #Asia #CentralAsia #Science #STEM #Genetics #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology @science @anthropology
A new way to discover history
“Explore the past on an interactive map with a timeline. Search for detailed high-resolution scanned maps and see what happened in your chosen place in the past.”
https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/project
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Map #Maps #Cartography @histodon @histodons
F. A. Hayek, Libertarianism, and the Denationalization of Money
“Hayek found support within the American libertarian movement. Libertarians realized that Hayek’s radical proposal would limit state control over the monetary system and allow for the free exchange of gold.”
McIntosh, W. (2024) โF. A. Hayek, Libertarianism, and the Denationalization of Moneyโ, Modern American History, pp. 1โ20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/mah.2024.19.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Conservatism #Business #Capitalism #Politics #Libertarianism #Money #History #Histodon #HIstodons @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Stevebidmead, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_bullion_bars.jpg
Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights
“Our findings suggest that U.S. voters are pragmatic about extending the local franchise to noncitizens. Although U.S. voters are, on average, indifferent toward local noncitizen suffrage, they oppose enfranchisement when noncitizens would vote for the opposing party.”
ALARIAN, H. and ZONSZEIN, S. (2024) โConditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rightsโ, American Political Science Review, pp. 1โ8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424000522.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Politics #PoliticalScience #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Elections #Democracy #Migration #Migrants #Immigration #Immigrants #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
Image #attribution: IonlyPlayz, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_map_of_the_USA_~_Rivers_and_Lakes.png
When Fake Archaeology Uses Fake Science
“Dr. M discusses common pseudoscientific arguments used to support pseudo archaeology.”
#Video length: twenty one minutes and forty three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0OMxE_D1pE
#Fake #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Science @archaeodons @science
The Absolute BEST Way to Use a Notebook
“In this video I show you the very best way to use a notebook… well, I help you decide which notebook method is best for you buy giving you helpful criteria and showing you all the different notebooks I keep.”
#Video length: twenty four minutes and fifty one seconds
Origins of medieval coinage revealed
“The implication is that Anglo-Saxon elites had access to significant quantities of Byzantine silver, something that dramatically alters our view of how economically and politically connected they were.”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/05/20/origins-of-medieval-coinage-revealed/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Antiquity #Antiquidons #Archaeology #Medieval #Silver #Coins #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons @antiquidons
A United States of Europe
“A free and unified Europe was first imagined by Italian radicals in the 19th century. Could we yet see their dream made real?”
https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-recover-the-radical-vision-of-a-free-and-united-europe
#Essay #History #Histodon #Histodons #Empires #Politics #Philosophy #Europe @histodon @histodons @philosophy
#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries. Page URL: https://archive.org/details/dr_europe-00224068
Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress
“AI systems threaten to amplify social injustice, erode social stability, enable large-scale criminal activity, and facilitate automated warfare, customized mass manipulation, and pervasive surveillance..”
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn0117
#ComputerScience #STEM #Technology #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DOI @ai
#Image attribution: Madhav-Malhotra-003, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_Intelligence_Word_Cloud.png
Bibliolater ๐๐๐
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@bibliolater @bookstodon
Yes, this! Also for series. The superposition of ready for it to end but also not looking forward to the intellectual energy required to find and invest in the next one. My happiest book moments are those middle pages - invested but not yet fatigued.
How do you feel when you approach the end of a #book that you have enjoyed #reading?
I am nearing the end of a seven hundred and forty seven page #book. Just forty five pages to go. I am experiencing mixed emotions as I have enjoyed the work, it increased my knowledge and widened my intellectual horizon; however, I will be glad when the book is finished.
#Read #Nonfiction #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
I have spent years looking at or watching advertisements on the internet. In all those years from what I can recall, I have never bought an item that was being sold to me via an advertisement.
Have you ever bought a product that you saw being advertised?
#Question #Internet #Online #Advertisement #Advertisements #Advert #Adverts #Ad #Ads
Bibliolater ๐๐๐
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Today, Google Translate thought that โlangoustineโ, which is apparently the English name for the type of lobster found near Iceland, as โlangreyรฐiโ in Icelandic
Langreyรฐi is the Icelandic word for โfin whaleโ, which is not a type of lobster.
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 โ 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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Joined Nov 2022
