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🔴 **Genetic evidence points to distinct paternal settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland**
_“If Iceland and the Faroe Islands are indeed genetically divergent, as found in the present study, two scenarios may explain their differentiation and Iceland’s relative isolation on the networks: (1) the populations were settled by different regional groups; or, (2) another historically contingent process of evolution between the two groups has resulted in the divergence.”_
Mann AE, Magnussen E and Tillquist CR (2024) Genetic evidence points to distinct paternal settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Front. Genet. 15:1462736. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2024.1462736.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Genetics #FaroeIslands #NorthAtlantic #Academia #Academics @science
🔴 **Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population**
_“We also investigated the debated question on the genetic origin of Armenians and failed to find any significant support for historical suggestions by Herodotus of their Balkan-related ancestry. We checked the degree of continuity of modern Armenians with ancient inhabitants of the eastern Armenian highlands and detected a genetic input into the region from a source linked to Neolithic Levantine Farmers at some point after the Early Bronze Age.”_
Hovhannisyan et al., Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population, The American Journal of Human Genetics (2025), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.10.022
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Demography #Genetics #Genome #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology #History #BronzeAge #Armenia #Academia #Academics @science @anthropology
🔴 **Comparative Hellenistic and Roman Manuscript Studies (CHRoMS): Script Interactions and Hebrew/Aramaic Writing Culture**
_"In this comparative study, I argue that Egyptian and Judean Hebrew/Aramaic scripts from 400 BCE–400 CE were heavily influenced by Greek and later Latin writing cultures, which explains many previously inexplicable phenomena. Jewish writers in the third century BCE adopted the Greek split-nibbed reed pen, which dramatically changed the appearance of Hebrew/Aramaic scripts. At the same time, the normal size for Hebrew/ Aramaic scripts shrank considerably, the pen strokes became mostly monotone and unshaded, and the scripts became more rectilinear, angular, bilinear, and square."_
Longacre, Drew. (2021). Comparative Hellenistic and Roman Manuscript Studies (CHRoMS): Script Interactions and Hebrew/Aramaic Writing Culture (Version Online First). Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 7(1), 7–50. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.8897.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Ancient #History #Manuscripts #Palaeography #Hebrew #Writing #Academia #Academics
🔴 **Building more mathematico in Renaissance Venice**
_"Among these manuscripts there are many mathematical works. Indeed, Bessarion’s interest in mathematical problems can be seen in the notes that he adds in the margins of his manuscripts of Archimedes, Euclid, Ptolemy, Apollonius, Aristarchus, Diophantus, Proclus, Hero, Aristotle, Theodosius and Serenus (Rose 1975: 45)."_
Monteleone, C. Building more mathematico in Renaissance Venice. Nexus Netw J 26, 557–569 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-024-00781-0.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Architecture #Renaissance #Venice #Europe #Academia #Academics
🔴 **Isaac Newton’s wealth ‘intimately connected’ with slavery, author says**
Hannah Devlin
_"During the scientist’s 30-year tenure at the mint, the book outlines, Newton oversaw an influx of gold mined primarily by enslaved Africans in Brazil. And as master of the mint, he took a small fee for every coin that was minted."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #HistSci #IsaacNewton #Slavery #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon
#Image attribute: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Portret_van_Isaac_Newton%2C_RP-P-OB-32.808.jpg.
🔴 🇹🇷 **Ancient Kestros Fountain in Türkiye flows again after 1,800 years**
Fatih Hepokur
_"The fountain, adorned with a reclining figure representing the ancient river god, Kestros, is expected to draw increased tourism, further enhancing the region’s cultural significance."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Türkiye #Turkey #Romans @histodon @histodons
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High-resolution of cancer. Unprecedented. A brief review of what we've just learned from 17 new papers in the latest edition of Ground Truths.
It's free, open-access.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/cancer-science-in-on-a-tear
🔴 🎥 **The Art and Science of Light in the Middle Ages**
_"Scientists in the Middle Ages built on the science hypothesized by ancient philosophers via experimentation and observation. They created a solid foundation of the study of optics (vision and light), and even began to explore the neuroscience of light, or how light affects how we feel through brain processes."_
#Video length: nine minutes and forty-five seconds.
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Cool website to see current trends on the #fediverse
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Teslas are more fatal than any other car brand. Let's discuss why...
#News #TechNews #Tesla #TeslaMotors #ElonMusk #NHTSA #carsafety #Cybertruck #Autopilot
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The Horse Manure Problem of 1894.
The 15 to 30 pounds of manure produced daily by each beast multiplied by the 150,000+ horses in New York city resulted in more than three million pounds of horse manure per day that somehow needed to be disposed of. That’s not to mention the daily 40,000 gallons of horse urine.
In other words, cities reeked. #History #1890s #horses #transport
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New insights into the Denisovans—the hominin group that interbred with modern day humans
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-insights-denisovans-hominin-group-interbred.html
🔴 📖 **An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449-1559)**
_"Forced baptisms of Jews and Muslims had profound effects across Spanish society, leading famous intellectuals as well as ordinary men and women to rethink their sense of belonging to the Christian community and their forms of religiosity. Thus, in this book, early modern Iberia emerges as a laboratory of European-wide transformations."_
Pastore, S. (11 Nov. 2024). An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449-1559), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004714236 [Accessed 23 November 2024].
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Medieval #Medievodons #EarlyModern #Castile #Iberia #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academics @medievodons @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (93)
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ChatGPT Has No Place in the Classroom • Buttondown https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/chatgpt-has-no-place-in-the-classroom/ Must read ! #éducation #IA 🗃️Toute ma veille commentée https://veille.louisderrac.com
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@bibliolater Two main reasons.
1. People don't learn. Like, ever.
2. In the social media life, people go where other people go.
The first reason is just sad. Depressing.
The second one is understandable. People tend to try and keep their social bonds.
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Meanwhile in Spain, the combination of widespread regional drought & the rights of private water companies to syphon water out of the aquifers has become a major political issue - of course this issue is hardly limited to Spain, and merely suggests that problems common across poorer countries are coming closer to the developed world....
As the article is neatly headlined:
'Its not drought - its looting'!
🔴 If you are leaving Twitter/X why would you want to go to another platform similar to it?
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"When one editor started asking authors to add their raw data after they submitted a paper to his journal, half of them declined and retracted their submissions. This suggests, in the editor’s words, “a possibility that the raw data did not exist from the beginning.”"
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
🔴 🇬🇱 🎥 **The Old Norse Language in Greenland**
_"Greenland's runestones and the dialect of Old Norse they point to."_
#Video length: fourteen minutes and forty seconds.
🔴 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **“Cleaner”**
Ben Yagoda
_"That word, “cleaner,” wasn’t familiar–I imagined it meant what Americans would call a cleaning lady, a cleaning person, a custodian, a janitor, basically, something that sounded a bit fancier than what the job really is.”_
🔗 https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/2024/11/22/cleaner/
#Word #Words #Britishism #British #American #English #Language
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.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
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Joined Nov 2022
