Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org

🔴 ❓ 📚 I am considering starting a blog where I will post reviews of books that I have read. Do you think the endeavour is advisable? If the answer to that question is yes, what platform do you think is the best to use?

#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #AmReading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

#Image attribution: Thad Zajdowicz from Altadena, California, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Book_review_(12213308404).jpg

🔴 📚 #Question: what book(s) are you reading this Sunday?

#AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 🇯🇵 Return to utopia? Vision and practice of the Japanese right at Yasukuni shrine

"As argued elsewhere, right-wing ideologies are constructed on a distinctive ontology and explanations for political phenomena.[67] In Japan, this has emerged around the issue of war-history: exonerating Japanese colonial history is not only a matter of national pride but considered to be central to political power. This emerged in the 1980s in response to issues such as history textbooks, territorial disputes, and re-writing the constitution, and carries on today. [68] It was around this time that the Yasukuni shrine also reemerged as the focal point for such reactionary historical revision in popular consciousness."

Narita, K. (2024) ‘Return to utopia? Vision and practice of the Japanese right at Yasukuni shrine’, Journal of Political Ideologies, pp. 1–22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2024.2418189.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Japan #Imperialism #Empire #Colonisation #Politics #PoliticalScience #RightWing #History #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience

🔴 🎥 Frankish Encounters with Paganism (with Prof. Alex Sager)

"Prof. Alex Sager (University of Georgia) returns to talk about Frankish records of Germanic paganism and the conversion."

#Video length: one hour and forty six minutes.

🔗 https://youtu.be/pkplfVd2DPE

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Religion #Christianity #Paganism #Europe @religion @histodon @histodons

🔴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A pound of raisins

"The practice of senior students extracting gifts or tribute from new students was common in medieval universities across Europe. The ‘bejaunia’ was a lavish feast paid for by the new student as part of their initiation into university life. It is thought that the St Andrews Raisin traditions may have developed from these roots."

🔗 https://special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/10/18/a-pound-of-raisins/

#University #Scotland

🔴 How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero

"To use zero in calculations, mathematicians had to establish all sorts of rules. You can’t divide any other number by zero, but you can divide zero by any other number. A nonzero number to the power of zero gives you one; zero to a power of a nonzero number gives you zero, but zero to a power of zero gives you a calculator error — and a headache."

🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-human-brain-contends-with-the-strangeness-of-zero-20241018/

#Maths #Mathematics #Math #Biology #Science #Cognition #Neuroscience @science @biology

🔴 ✍🏻 🎥 Handwriting Changes Everything

#Video length: twelve minutes.

🔗 https://youtu.be/27fsI_h3hVA

#Write #Writing #Notes #Notetaking

🔴 🇺🇸 Would Americans choose communism or fascism?

"American registered voters who support Kamala Harris in the 2024 election are more likely to choose communism (43%) than fascism (11%), while Americans who support Donald Trump are more likely to choose fascism (28%) than communism (16%)."

🔗 https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/50737-would-americans-choose-communism-or-fascism

#Data #DataViz #Politics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Communism #Fascism

🔴 🎥 The future under Amazon’s reign | The World According to Amazon (2020)

"This investigation tunnels into the workings of the company and its philosophy through insider interviews with business owners, employees and a former founding executive, and seeks to reveal the sky-high ambitions of the company run by the world’s first centi-billionaire."

#Video length: one hour and seventeen minutes.

🔗 https://youtu.be/vBbY0QRasic

#Documentary #Amazon #Business #Corporations

🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 Why Economists Hate Trump's Tariff Plan

"He wants to put across-the-board 60% tariffs on everything from China and 10%-20% on everything else from the rest of the world. It’s an extreme trade policy that he wants to use to generate revenue to cut taxes. But how would they work?"

#Video length: eight minutes and seventeen seconds.

🔗 https://youtu.be/_-eHOSq3oqI

#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #WSJ #Trump #Economics #Tariffs #Business @economics

🔴 🇮🇪 Three letters, one number, a knife and a stone bridge: how a graffitied equation changed mathematical history

"Yet Hamilton’s revelation changed the way mathematicians represent information. And this, in turn, made myriad technical applications simpler – from calculating forces when designing a bridge, an MRI machine or a wind turbine, to programming search engines and orienting a rover on Mars."

🔗 https://theconversation.com/three-letters-one-number-a-knife-and-a-stone-bridge-how-a-graffitied-equation-changed-mathematical-history-241034

#HistSci #Science #Maths #Mathematics #Math #History #Ireland @science

🔴 The Land at the End of the Empire: The Roman Eastern Border in Mesopotamia

"The impressive archaeological remains of the city — enclosed by massive walls and spatially organized by insulae (habitation blocks) — have yielded records of a multi-ethnic and religious settlement, with rich civilian houses flanked by a military quarter with baths and a small amphitheater, with temples and shrines dedicated to local deities, but also a synagogue and a church."

🔗 https://anetoday.org/roman-eastern-border-mesopotamia/

#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Rome #Romans #Empire #Mesopotamia #Asia #Europe @histodon @histodons @archaeodons

🔴 X-ray evidence of Black maths scholar portrait reveals snubbed genius

"It has long been mistaken for a satirical painting that mocks its Black subject for having the temerity to pretend to be a Georgian gentleman and scholar. But it is now thought to have been commissioned in 1760 by Williams himself to immortalise his brilliance as a trailblazing astronomer who, the clues in the painting suggest, successfully managed to compute and witness the trajectory of Halley’s comet over Jamaica in 1759."

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/16/x-ray-evidence-black-maths-scholar-portrait-francis-williams-uncovers-genius

#Art #Slavery #Race #Science #Astronomy #Maths #Mathematics #Math #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @science