Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, book, map, chart, and graph related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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**Trump weighs in on report King Charles will offer U.S. membership to British Commonwealth: ‘Sounds good!’**
#News #DonaldTrump #Trump #Commonwealth #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
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Can Earth’s Rotation Be a Power Source? Physicists Debate Bold New Idea
Experiments suggest an unusual magnetic material could help harness energy from Earth’s rotation. But not everyone is convinced
**The 1800s poem written to prove rhyming is easy**
_“An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table.”_
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Open access improves the dissemination of science: insights from Wikipedia
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-024-05163-4
"open access articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in Wikipedia, as they show an approximately 64.7% higher likelihood of being cited in Wikipedia when compared to paywalled articles, after controlling for confounding factors."
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Google Says Its Error-Ridden "AI Overviews" Will Now Give Health Advice
https://futurism.com/google-search-ai-overviews-health?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All About Artificial Intelligence @all-about-artificial-intelligence-Futurism
**What’s the Difference Between an Analogy and a Simile?**
**Is King Dollar’s Reign Coming to an End?**
“My book shows—pretty convincingly, as I hope readers will agree—that the dollar will remain firmly atop the global currency heap, barring the adoption of catastrophically wrongheaded policies by the US government.”
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/03/20/is-king-dollars-reign-coming-to-an-end/.
#Nonfiction #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates #Dollar #ReserveCurrency #Currency #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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On the evening of March 20, 1787, German philosopher, poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe climbs Vesuvius and makes a sketch of the volcano illuminated by the eruption 
**Global gridded population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population**
_“We find large discrepancies between the examined datasets, and, without exception, significant negative biases of −53%, −65%, −67%, −68%, and −84% for WorldPop, GWP, GRUMP, LandScan, and GHS-POP, respectively. This implies that rural population is, even in the most accurate dataset, underestimated by half compared to reported figures.”_
Láng-Ritter, J., Keskinen, M. & Tenkanen, H. Global gridded population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population. Nat Commun 16, 2170 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56906-7.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Geography #Science #Data #Population #Environment #Academia #Academics @geography @science
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Short & clear analysis: Christian Nationalism is closely related to, but empirically separable from, authoritarianism & racism. Could be made even cooler with a bit of SEM #RelPol
https://religioninpublic.blog/2025/02/12/is-christian-nationalism-just-a-dressed-up-authoritarianism/
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When Will We Reach 1.5 C of Warming? And How Will Climate Scientists Know?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-will-we-reach-1-5-c-of-warming-and-how-will-climate-scientists-know/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Scientific American @scientific-american-SciAm
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A Century Ago, Pioneering Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Showed Us What Stars Are Made Of
The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring researchers today
By Elizabeth Landau
Stellar Atmospheres is available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73996
![Photograph of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) at Harvard College Observatory Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1326]
Taken during the early to mid-20th century, the image portrays Payne-Gaposchkin in a thoughtful pose, dressed in a modest sweater, with natural light softly illuminating her face. In the background, shelves and filing cabinets filled with papers and scientific documents suggest an academic setting deeply immersed in research and discovery.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/195/497/011/691/486/original/f93d7a101b173ae8.jpg "Photograph of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) at Harvard College Observatory Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1326]
Taken during the early to mid-20th century, the image portrays Payne-Gaposchkin in a thoughtful pose, dressed in a modest sweater, with natural light softly illuminating her face. In the background, shelves and filing cabinets filled with papers and scientific documents suggest an academic setting deeply immersed in research and discovery.")
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Finland is again ranked the happiest country in the world. The US falls to its lowest-ever position
**The 4 Levels of Reading You Were Never Taught in School**
Robin Waldun
#Video length: seven minutes and fifty-nine seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgLK5wsA5wY
#Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
**Electricity from renewable sources reaches 47% in 2024**
_“Among EU countries, Denmark had the highest share of renewables in its net electricity generation with 88.8%, coming mostly from wind, followed by Portugal (87.4%, mostly wind and hydro) and Croatia (73.8%, mostly hydro). The lowest shares of renewables were recorded in Malta (15.1%), Czechia (17.5%) and Cyprus (24.1%).”_
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250319-1
**Unconventional Theories about the Earth’s Shape: Both Ancient and Modern**
**Paper self-citation: An unexplored phenomenon**
_“In total, we obtained 44,857 papers that have self-citation relations in the WoS raw dataset. In part, they are database artefacts but in part they are due to papers citing themselves in the conclusion or appendix. We also found cases where paper self-citations occur due to publisher-made highlights promoting and citing the paper.”_
Haunschild, R. and Bornmann, L. (2025) Paper self-citation: An unexplored phenomenon. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04324v1.
**Is Google Maps brainwashing us? It might be if the theory of ‘extended cognition’ is correct**
Susan Dieleman
_“In an era when technology companies compete for increasing shares of our attention, and therefore of our cognitive processes, it becomes increasingly difficult, but also urgently important, to be aware of whether we are being persuaded or brainwashed, and what we are being persuaded or brainwashed to believe.”_
#Technology #Tech #Smartphones #GoogleMaps #Misinformation #AttentionEconomy
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Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/substack-rival-ghost-is-now-connected-to-the-fediverse/
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World’s tiniest LED display has pixels smaller than a virus
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00813-w
See images of another tiny display with pixels the size of a human hair.
Not a bot, just a corpulent male, fifty years of age, who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, 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.
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