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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New #ebook @gutenberg_org: History of the Protestants of France, from the commencement of the Reformation to the present time by Guillaume Félice https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74322
🔴 🎙️ **What is Data Visualization? From the Expert Behind PolicyViz**
"_In this episode Autumn and Dr. Jonathan Schwabish discuss the importance of strategic thinking in data visualization and the key elements of good data._"
🔗 **https://www.breakingmath.io/podcast/what-is-data-visualization-from-the-expert-behind-policyviz**
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The Neolithic farmers and herders who built a massive stone chamber in southern Spain nearly 6,000 years ago seem to have possessed a good rudimentary grasp of physics, geometry, geology and architectural principles. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02776-w?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=78855c964b-nature-briefing-daily-20240827&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-78855c964b-50179668
🔴 **Prozac entering waterways is changing how fish behave and reproduce, study says**
_“Even at low concentrations, fluoxetine altered the guppies’ body condition and increased the size of their gonopodium, while simultaneously reducing sperm velocity – an essential factor for reproductive success,” study co-author Upama Aich from Monash University in Australia said._
🔗 **https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/prozac-waterways-fish-behaviour-pollution-b2602241.html**
#Prozac #Antidepressants #Ecology #Pollution #Science #News @science
🔴 **Fertility in High-Income Countries: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences**
"_In this contribution, we aim to (a) describe the main determinants of low fertility in high-income countries, (b) assess its potential economic consequences, (c) discuss adjustment mechanisms for individuals and economies, (d) propose a simple economic framework to analyze the long-run economic impacts of low fertility, and (e) draw lessons for economic policymakers to react appropriately. While the economic challenges of low fertility are substantial, a thoughtful and consistent policy response can mitigate most of the adverse consequences._"
Bloom, D.E., Kuhn, M. and Prettner, K. (2024) 'Fertility in High-Income Countries: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and consequences,' Annual Review of Economics. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-081523-013750.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Demography #Fertility #Health #PublicHeath #Depopulation #Economics #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics
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The English words '(to) waste', 'vast', and 'to devastate' are all etymologically related.
They come from the Latin adjective 'vāstus' (desolate) and '(dē)vāstāre' (to lay waste).
More distantly, they're related to Spanish 'gastar' (to spend), German 'wüst' (desolate; chaotic), and Dutch 'woestijn' (desert). The infographic shows how.
Latin 'vāstāre' should have produced forms with a /v/ in Romance. The fact that they start with /g/ instead points to Germanic influences. When a ... 1/
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Your use of AI is directly harming the environment I live in: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/your-use-of-ai-harms-the-environment/
🔴 **"Badass"**
"_It seems to me that the positively-evaluated form of badass has become increasingly common, especially as a term of praise for women._"
🔗 **https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=65617**
#USPolitics #USPol #Politics #Word #English #Language #Linguistics @linguistics
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Way in the future, when historians discuss the beginning of the Information Age in textbooks to bored teens, they'll lump all the events of the entire 20th century into a single moment of change, exactly like how we in our times think of the hundred-year fall of the Roman Empire as a single event as well.
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Category 2 Hurricane #Gilma this morning in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Winds reaching 105 mph.
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#climatechange + #speculators -- Global #coffee prices have soared to record highs as adverse #weather conditions disrupt #crops, driving up costs for consumers and pushing roasters to add lower-cost #beans to their blends, chart @FT https://www.ft.com/content/f02f2888-2349-47be-b484-22c8bcf38b35?segmentId=114a04fe-353d-37db-f705-204c9a0a157b
🔴 📚 🎥 **Talking For 18 Minutes About Beautiful Old Books**
#Video length: eighteen minutes.
🔴 🇹🇷 **The Guardian view on the invention of prehistory: telling the story before records began**
"_The study of Göbekli Tepe, the entombed wonder of the ancient world, shows how things can be as important as words_"
#Ancient #Prehistory #Türkiye #Turkey #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #TheGuardian #Opinion #Editorial
🔴 📚 🎥 **Beauty in Books**
#Video length: fifty six minutes and thirty eight seconds.
🔴 🇯🇵 🎥 **Why the Japanese Yen Is So Volatile**
"_...The trouble began when the yen's value started rising after the Bank of Japan hiked interest rates for a second time this year. Now, as the dust settles, investors and Japanese business owners alike are questioning the yen’s role in the global economy._"
#Video length: ten minutes and twenty two seconds.
🔴 **Follow Friday Suggestions**
Do you have any suggestions for Mastodon accounts related to either humanities or sciences that I can follow?
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
@ClaraListensprechen4 Thank you for following.
🔴 **Temperature-related mortality burden and projected change in 1368 European regions: a modelling study**
"_By 2100, based on our modelling, heat-related deaths in Europe could increase to more than 234 455 deaths annually in the worst scenario, compared with around 43 729 deaths for the current scenario (1991–2020), potentially shifting the mortality peak from cold to warm seasons in certain regions._"
🔗 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(24)00179-8/fulltext
#TheLancet #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Research #Science #PublicHealth #Health #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange
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nice to see some early #BookHistory here:
early C16 French #printer Sebastian Gryphius produced 1000+ titles. The 148 in @libraryCongress collection "form a representative snapshot of his total output which focused on textbooks and humanist works"
🔴 🎙️ **Podcast with Rachel Kousser, author of “Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great”**
"_But what drove Alexander to keep marching? What was the kind of empire Alexander wanted to build? And why did he eventually turn back at the Indus River, his soldiers begging for him to return home?_"
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodon #Histodons #AlexanderTheGreat #Empire #Imperialism #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
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
