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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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🔴 Data Vis Dispatch, July 23
“Clean cut to clean energy, where Brazil is leading among G20 countries. Across the world, most new power plants in 2023 will be for renewable sources, and there’s a good chance that geothermal energy will grow in the United States…”
🔴 Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths
“One example of an inaccuracy that has simply become established “history” is the very word Colosseum. In ancient Rome, it referred not to the stadium but to the enormous statue of Nero next to it. The Romans called the statue the Colossus and the stadium the Amphitheatrum Flavium. When the statue was destroyed, explains Mariotti, the nickname for the statue moved to the amphitheatre. This has now become a cultural norm, he adds, and going with it simply saves time.”
#Myths #Television #TV #Film #Cinema #Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 Capitalization in the constitution?
“It appears to me most of the nouns, if not all, are capitalized. For example, in the preamble, I only find “defence” is not capitalized, all the other nouns are capitalized.”
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=65117
#Language #Linguistics #Orthography #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Constitution @linguistics
#Image attribution: IonlyPlayz, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_map_of_the_USA_~_Rivers_and_Lakes.png
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This is an incredible story and had I been born in a different generation might have been my story as an academic. I'm so grateful to the women that came before me in academia, allowing me to be able to have both a family and my academic career. Congratulations Dr Fowler, so very overdue and so very well deserved. https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/22/physicist-rosemary-fowler-honoured-doctorate-75-years-after-discovery
🔴 AI ‘deepfake’ faces detected using astronomy methods
“Analysing reflections of light in the eyes can help to determine an image’s authenticity.”
🔴 Books That Shook the Business World: An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus
“The core thesis was that any improvements in food production would quickly be overwhelmed by population growth. Advances made today would just increase the population tomorrow, meaning more mouths to feed. Since the amount of agricultural land was finite, population growth would inevitably drag most people back to bare subsistence level. Humanity was thus caught in an eternal trap.”
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Demography @bookstodon
🔴 ‘Dark oxygen’ in depths of Pacific Ocean could force rethink about origins of life
“It had been thought that only living things such as plants and algae were capable of producing oxygen via photosynthesis – which requires sunlight.
But four kilometres (2.5 miles) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, where no sunlight can reach, small mineral deposits called polymetallic nodules have been recorded making so-called dark oxygen for the first time.”
🔴 🇮🇸 🎥 How Similar Are Old Norse and Icelandic? A Reading with Dr. Jesse Byock
“In this clip our guest Dr. Jesse Byock of U.C.L.A. and the University of Iceland reads a passage from the Saga of the Greenlanders to highlight the similarities between Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, and modern Icelandic.”
#Video length: two minutes and eleven seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD_OU_HXIWw
#Iceland #Icelandic #OldNorse #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
🔴 ‘Ex-Pagan Pagans’? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration
“I argue that, similar to Philo’s proselyte inclusion strategy, Paul incorporates Gentiles-in-Christ into ethnic Israel. As Abraham’s ‘offspring’, Paul suggests that his addressees not only gain membership in Israel’s covenant on account of Israel’s messiah, but that they also acquire a new ethnic identity despite that their prior identities as ‘the Gentiles’ are not erased.”
McDonald, D. N. (2022). ‘Ex-Pagan Pagans’? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 45(1), 23-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064X221082363
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Bible #NewTestament #Religion #Christianity #Pagans #Academia #Academic #Academic @religion
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Great new blogpost by Eiko Fried on “zombie theories” in science, research waste, and moving forward. #OpenScience #academia
https://eiko-fried.com/zombie-theories-why-so-many-false-ideas-stick-around/
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We have no experience of countries climbing from very low birth rates back up to replacement-level fertility, so we can’t say how that might be accomplished (or even if it’s a good idea to try).
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/there-is-very-little-evidence-base-for-reversing-low-fertility-rates/
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How can we train people in the art of learning to read scholarly research like a scientist?
Fascinated by this project that studied how biologists read papers, from undergrads to faculty, and why undergrads get so lost on things that experienced researchers find fast/easy.
More experienced readers focused on the data. More junior ones focused on the narrative.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21548455.2022.2078010
🔴 Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics
“Conservative white Christians use apocalypse to articulate their experience as God’s chosen but persecuted people in a diversely populated cosmos, wherein their political foes are the enemies of God.”
Douglas, Christopher. 2022. “Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics” Religions 13, no. 1: 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010021
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Apocalypse #ChristianRight #Bible #Theodicy #Religion #Literature #Nationalism #Politics #Academia #Academic #Academic #Academics @religion
🔴 Language co-creation
“Just like Romance languages evolved out of Latin, which had been the language spoken in the European capture areas, so did Latin evolve out of the languages spoken in Latium, the area around Rome.”
🔴 🎥 1935 Population Levels
#Video length: thirty eight seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyFbGG78VCI
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Population #Demography #Demographics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🏴 A New Map Of Medieval London
“Deliciously detailed 13th century plan. And a Tudor one, too.”
https://londonist.substack.com/p/a-new-map-of-medieval-london
🔴 The Earliest Photo of the Man Who Discovered the First Dead Sea Scrolls?
“This 1953 photo shoot covers both the excavations at Qumran and the early work of sorting the fragments. I was surprised to see a photo of the “two shepherds” who are said to have been the first to find scrolls standing outside the entrance to Cave 1Q.”
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Qumran #DeadSeaScrolls #MiddleEast #Levant #Asia @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 Vikings didn’t have tattoos
“The only medieval source to claim that Vikings had tattoos comes from the furthest edge of their culture’s world, and the lack of any Old Norse word or description of tattoos makes it unlikely they were a common decoration.”
#Video length: eleven minutes and thirty eight seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU-W9fDqS-M
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Viking #Vikings @histodon @histodons
🔴 Earthquake at same time as eruption could have caused Pompeii deaths – study
“Archaeologists estimate that 15 to 20% of Pompeii’s population died in the eruption, mostly from thermal shock as a giant cloud of gases and ash covered the city.
Volcanic ash then buried the Roman city, perfectly preserving the homes, public buildings, objects and even the people until its discovery in the late 16th century.”
#News #Study #Research #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Volcanoes #Italy #Europe @archaeodons
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In Broken Britain, even the statistics don’t work
From the bone-jarring potholes to the human excrement regularly released into British rivers, the country’s creaking infrastructure is one of the most visceral manifestations of the past 15 years of stagnation. To these examples of the shabby neglect of the essential underpinnings of modern life, let me add another: our statistica
https://timharford.com/2024/07/in-broken-britain-even-the-statistics-dont-work/
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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