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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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Classics in Translation
“Classical literature has been reinterpreted for millennia. Different generations have made these works their own by translating the original Greek or Latin into their vernacular, and every translation brings fresh perspectives. While the earliest appearances of these texts are unattainable, the history of printing is peppered with remarkable Classical firsts from a wide array of translators.”
https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/classics-in-translation/
#Read #Reading #Translation #Literature #Book #Books #Bookstodon @literature @bookstodon
Could you add a map of Kirkjubæjarklaustur?
“Modern satellite technology has revolutionized mapmaking and Earth observation with high resolution and multispectral imagery as well real time data. Having a GPS system in your pocket is a true privilege! There are countless sources for quality map files, like Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, or census bureaus. So why on Earth can it still be so hard to find reliable maps to visualize your own data?”
Late Neolithic collective burial reveals admixture dynamics during the third millennium BCE and the shaping of the European genome
“To conclude, our study of a Late Neolithic burial enables direct, quasi–real-time observation of the trimodal admixture processes in Europe between 3300 and 2600 cal BCE as steppe ancestry people dispersed and mixed with local Neo-ancestry groups or individuals. The generalization of the results obtained from our data suggests that this genomic transformation took place during a period of profound cultural change.”
OÄŸuzhan Parasayan et al., Late Neolithic collective burial reveals admixture dynamics during the third millennium BCE and the shaping of the European genome. Sci. Adv.10, eadl2468(2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl2468
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #STEM #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Neolithic #Europe #Genome #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons
The Robber Barons who dominated the Gilded Age
“But the four men who rode atop the wave of the Gilded Age were Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. Their business activities during the final four decades of the nineteenth century drove America’s ascension into the most powerful industrial nation on the planet. And they shaped the rules that governed the US economy for decades to come.”
https://malwarwickonbooks.com/us-economic-history/
#Read #Reading #NonFiction #History #Economy #US #USA #UnitedStates #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #BookReview #Bookstodon @bookstodon
How Does Our Sense of Humor Change With Age? A Statistical Analysis
“This research indicates that as individuals age, their increasing appreciation for incongruity resolution is coupled with a diminished enjoyment of nonsensical humor.”
https://www.statsignificant.com/p/how-does-our-sense-of-humor-change
#Research #Comedy #Humour #Humor #Joke #Jokes #Statistics #Data
🇸🇪 Episode 312: Christina of Sweden, Minerva of the North
“In this week’s episode, get to know Christina of Sweden, the keenly intelligent and fiercely independent queen of Sweden, who is remembered today for her passion of learning and knowledge.”
https://halfarsedhistory.net/2024/06/16/episode-312-christina-of-sweden-minerva-of-the-north/
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodon #Histodons #Sweden #EarlyModern #Scandinavia #Europe @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
#Image attribution: Claus Grünstäudl w18, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elegant_steel_microphone_(Unsplash).jpg
Coin hoard from time of the Gallus Revolt unearthed in Lod
“The Gallus Revolt was an uprising by the Jews of Roman Palaestina against the rule of Constantius Gallus (brother-in-law of Emperor Constantius II) during the Roman civil war of AD 350–353.
The uprising was in response to the persecution of non-Christians by Constantius and the Christian clergy, who incited riots and destroyed Jewish synagogues and temples.”
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Coins #History #Histodon #Histodons #Levant #MiddleEast #Asia @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
God’s Ghostwriters by Candida Moss review – did enslaved scribes write the New Testament?
“And if the Roman family that purchased them as a scribe had subsequently converted to Christianity, either openly or secretly as many did in the first and second centuries CE, they may well then have been drafted in to write down the words of the great Christian missionary preachers who criss-crossed the empire and came to its capital, including of course Paul.”
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Theology #Religion #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @theology @religion @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
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The big idea: can you inherit memories from your ancestors?
“Scientists working in the emerging field of epigenetics have discovered the mechanism that allows lived experience and acquired knowledge to be passed on within one generation, by altering the shape of a particular gene. This means that an individual’s life experience doesn’t die with them but endures in genetic form.”
#Genetics #Neuroscience #Science #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Biology @science @biology
The Enduring Mystery of How Water Freezes
“For a process that’s anything but exotic, ice nucleation remains surprisingly mysterious. Chemists can’t reliably predict the effect of a given impurity or surface, let alone design one to hinder or promote ice formation. But they’re chipping away at the problem.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-enduring-mystery-of-how-water-freezes-20240617/
#Science #STEM #Chemistry #Physics #Article #Water #Ice @science @physics @chemistry
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The origin of the word 'cat' is unknown.
There are similar words in many related languages, such as French 'chat', Welsh 'cath', and Polish 'kot', but also in unrelated languages, e.g. Arabic 'qiá¹á¹a' and Turkish 'kedi'.
However, none of these languages can be identified as the source language.
See the infographic to learn more about it.
The Sale of the Crosby-Schøyen Codex and its Cost Over Time
“The highlight of the sale was the so-called Crosby-Schøyen codex, which sold for just over the high end of the estimated price range at £ 3,065,000.”
https://brentnongbri.com/2024/06/12/the-sale-of-the-crosby-schoyen-codex-and-its-cost-over-time/
#Investment #Book #Books #History #Christianity #Religion @religion
Science of Naples: Making knowledge in Italy’s Pre-Eminent City, 1500–1800
“Individual chapters demonstrate the extent to which Neapolitan scholars and academies contributed to debates within the Republic of Letters that continued until deep into the nineteenth century. They also show how studies of Neapolitan natural disasters yielded unique insights that contributed to the development of fields such as medicine and earth sciences.”
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/category-history-of-science/products/237881
#OpenAccess #OA #History #Science #HistSci #Naples #Italy #Europe #EarlyModern #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #PDF @science @histodon @histodons
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How to opt out of Meta’s AI training
“Your posts are a gold mine, especially as companies start to run out of AI training data.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/14/1093789/how-to-opt-out-of-meta-ai-training/
#Technology #Tech #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tip #Tips @ai
The global village of the Silk Roads
“The network of Silk Roads included both land and maritime routes. The Northern Route traversed through Central Asia, the Southern Route passed through what is now Iran and India. Major cities along these routes included Xi’an in China, Samarkand in Uzbekistan, and Ctesiphon, near modern-day Baghdad. The Maritime routes linked ports in China to Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Africa. This was the vastest network the world had ever seen.”
https://www.biblonia.com/p/the-global-village-of-the-silk-roads
The Tradition of Large Integers in Historical Arithmetical Textbooks
“This tradition apparently began with the two first texts that significantly contributed to the spread of the decimal system in Europe—the Latin translations of al- Khwarizmi’s treatise on decimal arithmetic, and Leonardo’s Liber Abaci, containing examples of reading a 16-digit and a 15-digit number respectively. Throughout the centuries, the order of magnitude of these introductory numbers increased, in general up to some 30 digits, but in some cases to over 60 digits.”
Bruckler, Franka Miriam and Stilinovic, Vladimir (2024) “The Tradition of Large Integers in Historical Arithmetical Textbooks,” The Mathematics Enthusiast: Vol. 21 : No. 1, Article 5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1617
#DOI #Research #History #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Textbooks #Book #Books #Academia #Academic #Academics
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El Niño declared over as La Niña waits in the wings
Agropastoral and dietary practices of the northern Levant facing Late Holocene climate and environmental change: Isotopic analysis of plants, animals and humans from Bronze to Iron Age Tell Tweini
“In view of the known critical factors influencing Bronze and Iron Age agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean region, such as the global climate fluctuations at the end of the Early and Late Bronze Age or the collapse of the socio-economic system in connection with migrations, at least in part of a warlike nature, which are described as the invasion of the “Sea Peoples”, agricultural production at Tell Tweini proves to be comparatively resilient. Thus, despite the destruction of Tell Tweini in the first quarter of the 12th century BC, a revival of urban life and trading systems in the 11th century BC and continuing into the Iron Age II is evident.”
Fuller BT, Riehl S, Linseele V, Marinova E, De Cupere B, et al. (2024) Agropastoral and dietary practices of the northern Levant facing Late Holocene climate and environmental change: Isotopic analysis of plants, animals and humans from Bronze to Iron Age Tell Tweini. PLOS ONE 19(6): e0301775. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301775
#OpenAccess #OA #PeerReview #Research #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Levant #Asia #BronzeAge #IronAge #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons
Light at Night
“In the 1300s, one million units of lighting — a lumen-hour — would have cost around £40,800 in 2000 prices. By 2006, this had fallen to £2.90. That is a 14,000-fold decline.”
Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie (2023) - “Light at Night”. Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/light-at-night’ [Online Resource].
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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