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.
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🟡 **<font color="yellow">What Americans think about the Roman Empire</font>**
"_The longevity of the Roman Empire, its conversion to Christianity, its political structure, its pagan religion, and its military conquests are each viewed positively by more Americans than view them negatively, among the population who knows at least something about the Roman Empire. And Americans overwhelmingly say Roman slaveholding was a mostly negative aspect of the Roman Empire._"
🔗 **https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/50546-what-americans-think-about-the-roman-empire**
🟡 **<font color="yellow">Lord Kelvin: how the 19th century scientist combined research and innovation to change the world</font>**
"_Thomson’s lifelong talent for inventing ingenious scientific instruments secured him 70 patents, enabled dozens of scientific breakthroughs and made him a highly successful entrepreneur._"
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Sources where you can get interesting and free images:
Getty Museum Collection: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/
Public Domain Review: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections
Public Work: https://public.work/
PhyloPic: https://www.phylopic.org/
MNAHA Collections (careful, check copyright, not everything is public domain here!) https://collections.mnaha.lu/index/
QIMBY (quality transport): https://qimby.net/
🟡 **<font color="yellow">From Jewish to Gentile How the Jesus Movement Became Christianity</font>**
"_The switch in the perception of Jesus from charismatic prophet to superhuman being coincided with a geographical and religious change, when the Christian preaching of the gospel moved from the Galilean-Judean Jewish culture to the pagan surroundings of the Greco-Roman world._"
🔗 **https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/from-jewish-to-gentile/**
🟡 🇸🇪 **<font color="yellow">Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right</font>**
"_Drawing parallels to the UK, where pub closures led to increased support for UKIP, this study investigates similar trends observed in Sweden. Utilizing a novel dataset of over 50,000 alcohol-serving permits and electoral data from 2002 to 2018, the study finds that a reduction in permits is associated with a 3.7% increase in support for the Sweden Democrats (SD)._"
Isaksson, Z. (2024) 'Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right,' Electoral Studies, 91, p. 102850. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102850.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #PoliticalScience #Politics #Populism #Europe #Sweden #Swedish #Alcohol #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
🟡 **<font color="yellow">Excavating ancient pilgrimage at Nessana, Negev</font>**
"_The churches were the only public structures of Nessana to have been previously exposed; all were ornately decorated basilicas, belonging to the most common architectural form of early ecclesiastical edifices in the Holy Land._"
Tchekhanovets, Y. (2024) ‘Excavating ancient pilgrimage at Nessana, Negev’, Antiquity, pp. 1–7. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.132
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Ancient #Antiquity #Byzantine #Christianity #Pilgrimage #Desert #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons
I am testing yellow coloured titles to toots. I would appreciate your opinion if I should continue or return to white coloured titles?
🟡 **<font color="yellow">What’s the Problem with the Dutch? Andrew Marvell, the Trade Wars, Toleration, and the Dutch Republic</font>**
"_But Marvell’s passage – unlike Dryden’s portrait – also seems sensitive to the social dangers of commerce, its power to level difference. He not only equates dissenting conscience with commerce, but regrets an entire nation where credit (i.e. belief) has been narrowed to a financial term, and conscience functions as a mere bank, where money is in fact not only the coin of this realm, but its only measure of value. What seems at stake here is the dissolutive power of money, socially and spiritually._"
🔗 **https://doi.org/10.16995/ms.20**
#AndrewMarvell #Essay #EarlyModern #Literature #DOI @earlymodern
🔴 🎥 **Hitler's American Ranch?**
#Video length: eight minutes and eighteen seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/T_qulE5iXi4**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Hitler #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **Sigrun's Wrath And The Discovery Of Iceland ¦ Viking Women**
"_The Vikings changed Europe forever, yet half of them have almost completely disappeared from collective memory: the women. Quite unjustly so, as they played an important role in the world of the Vikings and performed extraordinary deeds: Viking women commanded ships and settled colonies._"
#Video length: fifty two minutes and one second.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/h4D89QcTLGo**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Documentary #Vikings #Women #Iceland #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **Rare and ornate 14th-century Bible sells at auction for £5.3m**
"_The Shem Tov Bible, which was completed by Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon in the northern Spanish city of Soria in 1312, has led a peripatetic and almost miraculous existence, surviving countless wars and upheavals on its travels to Jerusalem, Baghdad, Tripoli, London and Geneva over the course of seven centuries._"
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@bibliolater It's even more extreme than what you say. The chart shows how much of its *consumption* came from solar, not production. Production was much higher, but until about April it was throwing tremendous quantities of electricity awayt because of lack of transmission capacity.
🔴 🇨🇱 **Chile produced 9.4% of its primary energy from solar in 2023 — the highest in any country that year**
"_Much of Chile's solar energy is captured in the Atacama Desert. This region, in Northern Chile, receives the highest level of sunlight exposure in the world and is home to Latin America’s first solar thermal plant._"
🔴 🔭 **Astronomy photographer of the year 2024 – winners and finalists**
"_The winners of Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual competition have been announced._"
🔴 💻 **What Computers Can’t Do**
"_Computers can of course write poems; they can associate, and construct images gleaned from all the world’s literature, but they will never act like a little boy who began reading books when he was very young and imagined himself growing up to become an explorer._"
🔗 **https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/september/what-computers-can-t-do**
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🔴 🇺🇸 **A Majority of Americans Can’t Recall Most First Amendment Rights**
"_Asked what specific rights are guaranteed by the First Amendment, nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) name freedom of speech. The other four rights are recalled by far fewer people: the second most-often cited, freedom of religion, is named by just 39%_"
🔗 **https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/most-americans-cant-recall-most-first-amendment-rights/**
#Civics #Education #Judiciary #Legal #Politics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
🔴 **Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas**
"_That we infer the Native American component in Ancient Rapanui to be most closely related to Pacific Coast South Americans and not North Americans or populations east of the Andes further substantiates trans-Pacific contacts between Polynesians and Native Americans._"
Moreno-Mayar, J.V., Sousa da Mota, B., Higham, T. et al. Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas. Nature 633, 389–397 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07881-4
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Ancient #DNA #Anthropology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genomics #PopulationGenetics #Genetics #Science #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology @archaeodons @science
🔴 **How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans**
"_There’s a long tradition of casting the Normans as the bad guys of British history – powerful and impressive, maybe, but not sympathetic. Most of us like to identify with the underdog, and in British history that usually means the non-Norman._"
🔗 **https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/how-rescue-reputation-nasty-normans**
#Britian #British #History #Histodon #Histodons @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
