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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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Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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An example of Eric's work on using the tools of behavioural experiments to understand large language models can be found here:
🔴 📖 Plutarch's Science of Natural Problems
"By providing a thorough study of and commentary on this generally neglected text, written by one of the most influential and prolific writers from Antiquity, this book contributes to our better understanding of Plutarch’s natural scientific programme and the condition and role of ancient natural science in the Roman Imperial Era in general."
Meeusen, M. (2017) Plutarch’s Science of Natural Problems. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pwtcsk.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Classics #Ancient #Antiquity #Greek #Philosophy #HistSci #History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @philosophy @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (92)
🔴 🌡️ 🎥 How heatwaves impact our lives
"The thermal load is particularly high in cities. The record summer of 2003 in Paris, for example, led to apocalyptic conditions. According to climate experts, temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius cannot be ruled out for the French capital in the future."
#Video length: forty two minutes and twenty nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/JKEJ9p9YVY8
#Documentry #DWDocumentary #DWDocs #Climate #ClimateChange #Heatwaves #Science @science @climatechange
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"Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste."
Letter 8 - On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
~Friedrich Schiller
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SO GOOD. European alternatives for nearly all Amazon, Google, Microsoft products along with alts to Github, Slack, etc. now we need to create a North American version of this. thank you, @vortex! https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to
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A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
🔴 📖 Radical struggles and revolution: The book unearthing the subversive history of Paradise Lost
"Milton may personify the pale, male and stale hegemony of the English poetic tradition, but the story of his poem is one of new ways of thinking, of new societies being forged, of old orders being overturned – and it begins at the moment of England’s own revolution, with the overthrow of Charles I in 1649."
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Poetry #Literature #JohnMilton @poetry @literature @bookstodon
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In the third century, Roman armies were routinely embarrassed by Shapur I, the ‘king of the kings’ of the Sasanians. Shapur defeated Gordian III, forced the Roman emperor Philip I to pay blood money, and reportedly used Valerian as a footstool!
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On my to-read list is Turing's paper written as an undergraduate where he independently came up with a proof of the Central Limit Theorem, because he was not satisfied with the vague treatment he had been shown in lectures. He didn't know Lindeberg had already proved the result properly about a decade earlier.
https://turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/unpublished-manuscripts-and-drafts-amtc/amt-c-28
You can read a 1995 paper in the American Mathematical Monthly discussing this, here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2974762
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African-American mathematician & astronomer Benjamin Banneker born 10 Nov. 1731: "His significant accomplishments and correspondence with prominent political figures profoundly influenced how African Americans were viewed during the Federal period"
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/november-09?loclr=eatod
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'I gave my DNA to a testing company - then it vanished'
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Things that seem to go unnoticed #251
The weekdays aren't named after gods, but after the planets. The full planetary naming scheme is first attested in graffiti at Pompeii.
(English weekday names have the same pattern, but with localised versions of Germanic names: e.g. Venus > Frigg > Friday)
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Download 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Books, Guides, Magazines & More
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I added the excellent diamond open access journal @weareseismica to Wikidata last night: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130628656
yay for Seismica. Great journal!
🔴 🇬🇧 British people see immigration as a major concern for the country, but not in their own lives
"Immigration stands out for having the largest difference between national and personal concerns. 32% see it as a top issue for Britain, but only 4% feel it is one of the most important issues they face personally."
#Immigration #Migration #Immigrants #Migrants #Europe #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #British #Data #DataViz
🔴 🎥 A banana on a wall is being sold for $1m at auction
The Italian artist behind the art is Maurizio Cattelan, who says his work is “not a joke” - it's about “how we value objects and how they move through the world".
#Video length: fifty six seconds.
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This wooden shield was found at Trelleborg Castle and is the only shield from the Viking Age that has been found in Denmark. Discovered in a wet area about 40 meters from the south gate of the castle, it is dated to the time of the Viking castle around 980 AD
🔴 🗺️ Is It a Map?! – Unusual Graphics in the Geography and Map Division
"Sometimes in our collection of 6 million maps, I run across an item that is so unusual that it makes me stop and ask myself, “is this really a map?” When one thinks of a map, the most typical response is to think of something that shows the land or sea that depicts such things as cities, roads, and natural features. However, another definition as given by the Merriam Webster dictionary is “a diagram or other visual representation that shows the relative position of the parts of something.”
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/11/is-it-a-map-unusual-graphics-in-the-geography-and-map-division/
🔴 🎥 Why 4d geometry makes me sad
#Video length: twenty nine and forty one 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
