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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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🔴 Just saw the #Rumsfeld #hashtag being used on Mastodon and my memory took me back to this #quote:
“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.”
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns#cite_note-defense.gov-transcript-1
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Our organs age at different tempo.
About 1 in 5 of us are "extreme agers" for an organ.
3 recent reports highlight how we can track that and the exciting implications for these internal clocks. In the new edition of Ground Truths
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-emergence-of-protein-organ-clocks
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John Dee, the most influential mathematicus in Renaissance England was born 13 July 1527 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/john-dee-the-mathematicall-praeface-and-the-english-school-of-mathematics/
🔴 Do you use #Librivox to listen to #audiobooks?
#Question #Poll #Polls #AudioBook #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 Rethinking the early Viking Age in the West
“Drawing on recent research that stresses the heterogeneity of Viking war-bands—and their early involvement in Francia and England—it proposes a ‘southern route’ through which Viking influence flowed towards the North Atlantic.”
Griffiths, D. (2019) ‘Rethinking the early Viking Age in the West’, Antiquity, 93(368), pp. 468–477. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.199.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Viking #Vikings #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 Great Britain and the Confederacy
“This essay describes the efforts of the Confederate States of America to convince Great Britain to support its secession from the United States. Although the South’s leaders were confident that Britain’s need for cotton would lead it to become an ally, numerous factors—including the British public’s aversion to slavery—contributed to the country remaining neutral.”
Slinger M. (2023) Great Britain and the Confederacy. British Journal of American Legal Studies, Vol.12 (Issue 2), pp. 357-376. https://doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2023-0028
#OpenAccess #OA #Essay #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Slavery #Confederacy #America #GB #GreatBritain #UK #UnitedKingdom #C19th #19thCentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
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~ Most Johns Hopkins Medical Students to Receive Free Tuition After $1 Billion Gift~
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The 100 Best #Books of the 21st Century https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6E0.0kj9.VoHkiuQTjyIb
They haven't got to the end of it yet, interesting to see what else will appear on the list
#GiftLink #NoPaywall
Why Alexander the Great really was better than the average imperialist conqueror
“Kousser brings us into the story in time for the infamous burning of Persepolis, jewel of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Alexander’s consolidation of power, conquest of Asia Minor and founding of Alexandria were all behind him at this point. When he burned Persepolis, he had just returned from Egypt, where he had proclaimed himself the son of a god.”
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Imperialism #Empire #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
From willow bark to aspirin: The evolution of modern medicine, through the rise and fall of ancient and medieval empires
“There is a lot to learn from ancient medical treatises and scholars, not to only discover potential novel treatments, but also to learn the history of modern medicine, and appreciate the work that has been done thousands of years ago.”
🏴 📚 Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698
“Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England’s emerging colonial empire.”
https://www.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70131-4
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #EarlyModern #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Colonialism #Imperialism #Empire #Religion #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @religion @bookstodon (86)
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Is "race" a scientific concept?
What about "population"?
Watch an informative interview with Dr. Christopher Stringer covering these topics and more on human evolution.
The Past and Future of Human Evolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlvbKXrGo34
🏴 Revealed: How mass tourism helped England after the Black Death
“The new investigations into the management and economics of the medieval pilgrimage industry has revealed that each major pilgrimage centre (often cathedrals) would seek to market their ‘pilgrimage offer’ only around four times a year - so as to deliberately concentrate mass tourism in their specific town into a manageable series of very short seasons.
This maximised efficiency and profit, while minimising mass tourism’s impact on normal ecclesiastical life.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/black-death-tourism-middle-ages-b2578715.html
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #England #Europe #Tourism #Plague @histodon @histodons @medievodons
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The Lost Art of Handwriting
A new book provides a glimpse into how some of the most resoundingly famous writers actually, you know, wrote.
By Sarah Rose Sharp via @hyperallergic
The most ancient human genome yet has been sequenced—and it’s a Denisovan’s
“200,000-year-old DNA from Siberian cave shows our elusive, extinct cousins mated repeatedly with Neanderthals”
#News #Science #Genome #Denisovans #Neanderthals #Ancient #DNA @science
Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy
“We also propose and find evidence via both measurement (study 2A) and manipulation (via short video interventions; studies 2B and 2C) for the role of each dimension of scientific literacy—scientific knowledge and reasoning—and their impact on evidence evaluation and conspiracy beliefs.”
Nathan Allred, Lisa E Bolton, Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy, Journal of Consumer Research, 2024;, ucae024, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae024
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Conspiracy #Science #Education #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
Peak global population and other key findings from the 2024 UN World Population Prospects
“Although the global population is expected to increase for many more decades, the population growth rate is slowing rapidly.
This is driven by a dramatic reduction in fertility rates, which measure the average number of children per woman. The global fertility rate has more than halved since the 1960s, from over 5 children per woman to 2.3.”
Hannah Ritchie and Lucas Rodés-Guirao (2024) - “Peak global population and other key findings from the 2024 UN World Population Prospects” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/un-population-2024-revision’ [Online Resource]
#Data #DataViz #World #Human #Population #Science #Statistics #Demography #Demographics
Archaeologists find site of epic clash between Spartacus and Roman army
“Archaeologists have uncovered a stone wall in an Italian forest that was used by the Roman army during an epic “clash” against slave revolt leader and gladiator Spartacus and his men.”
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Roman #Romans #Empire #Spartacus @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🎥 Callan Davies on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor
#Video length: four minutes and forty seven seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv164t8ZH44
#Read #Reading #Shakespeare #Literature #Book #Books #Bookstodon @literature @bookstodon
🎥This Video is About Electroadhesion.
“..a new discovery called “hard-soft electroadhesion” enables chemists to stick almost any hydrogel to almost any metal, using nothing but an electric current.”
#Video length: fourteen minutes and four seconds.
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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