Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @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 containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Geometric Haircuts**
"_A Knightsbridge hair stylist uses Geometry to design haircuts of the future (1956)._"
#Video length: forty three seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/9SR963yYjOY
#Geometry #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Fashion #HairStyles #C20th #20thCentury #History #UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #London #Knightsbridge
🔴 📖 **Books that pay off**
"_The power of money is lost on no one but still a universal source of frustration, folly, and confusion — at kitchen tables, in boardrooms, among voters and the leaders who want their votes. To help make sense of dollars and cents, we asked three Harvard economists to recommend some favorite books on the subject._"
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/07/on-the-money/
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Money #Economics #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @economics
🔴 **Questioning The Next Twitter Migration Wave**
When do you think the next major Twitter migration wave to Mastodon will occur? What do you think will precipitate it?
#Question #SocialMedia #Twitter #X #Migration #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #Fediverse
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The CROWN JEWELS of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HxKsJ7hHGU&t=926s
A characteristically beautiful & well-informed presentation by Allan Barton @antiquariananon. Of particular interest, especially to non-specialists, may be the importance of Arabic influence & design (via Sicily)
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Earth's days are currently around 24 hours long, but that wasn't always the case. In fact, days used to be two hours longer (Just think of all the extra time you could have spent at work!). LiveScience explains more, including how the moon siphons away our planet’s kinetic energy: https://flip.it/z6ljwH
#Science #Earth #Moon #Energy #Time
🔴 **Andrew Gelman (Guest post): (Trying to) clear up a misunderstanding about decision analysis and significance testing**
"_The point of this post is not to argue to abandon statistical significance—for that, I recommend our article!—but rather to highlight the fundamental differences between Bayesian decision analysis and statistical significance thresholds. They’re not just two ways of doing the same thing, and that’s important!_"
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Now showing average July #Arctic sea ice volume since the year 1901...
A high resolution version of this graphic can be downloaded at https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-volumethickness/. Comparison between PIOMAS-20C and PIOMAS datasets available at https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0008.1.
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It’s hilarious that climate deniers’ “evidence” that there’s no sea-level rise is that rich people are buying beachfront property. I’ve warned those people, and their reply is always “we’ll just walk away when it’s bad.” That’s the thing about being rich.
🔴 📖 🇺🇸 **Apprentice in Wonderland by Ramin Setoodeh review – how Donald Trump’s big break changed America**
"_The degradation began, as the entertainment journalist Ramin Setoodeh relates, when Donald Trump was catapulted into power by The Apprentice, a reality/talent/gameshow over which he presided on NBC from 2004 until 2017. Before this, Trump was best known as a loud-mouthed, laughable vulgarian, a fixture in tabloid gossip columns whose business career mostly consisted of bankruptcies._"
#Trump #Television #TV #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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New horrifying dystopia just dropped
These 'living computers' are made from human neurons — and you can rent one for $500 a month
https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/these-living-computers-are-made-from-human-neurons
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A 2,000-year-old mosaic has been discovered during excavations at a Roman site in Shropshire.
The piece at Wroxeter Roman City, near Shrewsbury, depicts brightly-coloured dolphins and fish.
Photo credit Paul Belford. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gv3e6p05do.amp
🔴 📖 **How to Read Like Leonardo Da Vinci?**
"_There is a lot of advice today on how to read more books and to read them more quickly, yet little advice on how to read them well and more thoroughly. To tell someone that you have only read one great book last year and have learnt it by heart sounds less attractive than to tell someone that you read 100+ books last year. Quantity is everything today._"
🔗 https://armenikus.substack.com/p/how-to-read-like-leonardo-da-vinci
🔴 🌀 🛰️ **Tempests And Satellite Imagery**
Zoom Earth [@zoom_earth] is a account that trackers hurricanes. Apart from the weather updates I find the real-time satellite imagery that it provides fascinating.
#Map #Maps #Weather #Hurricane #Typhoon #Cyclone #Storm #Tempest #Satellite #Images
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'She said that Irish passports, with membership of the EU, would probably be among the most coveted. For decades, unmarried Irish mothers were coerced into giving up their children for adoption in Britain.
A spokesperson for Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed would-be Irish citizens have already started using DNA evidence to help prove they are entitled to Irish citizenship through a parent, and that this evidence is submissible in passport applications.'
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A jarring new data point came earlier this month when #Germany’s #Volkswagen reported its first quarterly loss in at least 15y from joint ventures and associates, chart @WSJecon https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/how-china-is-becoming-a-money-pit-for-foreign-automakers-in-charts-4ae2e119?mod=hp_lead_pos9
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#China was a gold mine for global #automakers a decade ago. Not anymore -- “very few people are making money” in #China, #GeneralMotors CEO Mary Barra told investors in July, chart @WSJecon https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/how-china-is-becoming-a-money-pit-for-foreign-automakers-in-charts-4ae2e119?mod=hp_lead_pos9
🔴 🎥 **Why we say “OK”**
"_Young intellectuals in Boston came up with several of these abbreviations, including “KC” for “knuff ced,” “OW” for “oll wright,” and KY for “know yuse.” But thanks to its appearance in Martin Van Buren’s 1840 presidential re-election campaign as the incumbents new nickname, Old Kinderhook, OK outlived its abbreviated comrades._"
#Video length: five minutes and twenty one seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/1UnIDL-eHOs
#History #Word #Words #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
🔴 📖 **Tom Gauld on how to manage your unread books pile – cartoon**
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Cartoon @bookstodon
🔴 ⁉️ 🎥 **Where does punctuation come from?!**
"_In this episode I trace the punctuation we use every day as far back as I can._"
#Video length: eighteen minutes and fifty five 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 containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
