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Dow closes down 320 points, while Nasdaq drops 2%. https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-on-track-for-600-point-bounce-s-p-and-nasdaq-to-gain-as-tariff-angst-eases?mod=home_lead
🔴 🗺️ **1,000 Years Of National Borders In Europe On One Map**
🔗 https://brilliantmaps.com/1000-years-of-national-borders-europe/.
🔴 💻 **AI companions are the final stage of digital addiction, and lawmakers are taking aim**
“_Designed to be the perfect person—always available, never critical—AI companions are hooking people deeper than social media ever could. They make the attention economy look like a relic._”
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AttentionEconomy #Technology #Tech #Digital #Addiction @ai
🔴 **Ultra-processed foods are making us old beyond our years**
“_It found a significant association between increased UPF consumption and accelerated biological ageing. For every 10% increase in UPF consumption, the gap between biological and chronological age widened by approximately 2.4 months._”
🔗 https://blog.oup.com/2025/04/ultra-processed-foods-are-making-us-old-beyond-our-years/.
🔴 **Scientists identify most bitter substance ever known**
“_Bitter bracket mushroom compounds found to be most bitter substances known to man_”
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bitter-most-substance-ever-known-b2729280.html.
🔴 🇬🇧 **Populism and the Social History of British Anti-Slavery**
Ryan Hanley
“_In the United Kingdom, the abolition of the slave trade and slavery holds a special place in national identity narratives, largely thanks to over a century of celebratory historiography, from the mid-nineteenth century to about the mid-twentieth. While this “Whig tradition” has long since fallen from favor among historians, it enjoys an uncanny afterlife among a certain cross section of right-wing populists._”
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/04/08/populism-and-the-social-history-of-british-anti-slavery/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Slavery #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Populism #RightWing @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Ancient rocks boost case for mini ice age linked to fall of Rome**
“_Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded the collapse of the Roman Empire_”
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Climate #IceAge #Romans #RomanEmpire @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 ** Interview: Laurence D. Hurst On The Evolution Of Imperfection**
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/laurence-d-hurst-on-the-evolution-of-imperfection.
#Nonfiction #Essay #Biology #Science #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon @science @biology
🔴 **Quote Origin: The Genius, Wit, and Spirit of a Nation Are Discovered in Its Proverbs**
🔴 **Who is most likely to fall for fake news?**
_“No matter who you are, no matter what you think you know, none of us is immune to misinformation,” said Dr. Friedrich Götz, assistant professor of psychology at the University of B.C. and the study’s senior author._
🔗 https://news.ubc.ca/2025/04/misinformation-susceptibility-who-falls-for-fake-news/.
#FakeNews #Misinformation #Psychology #Society #Education @psychology
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AI LLMs Astonishingly Bad At Doing Proofs And Disturbingly Using Blarney In Their Answers
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2025/04/08/ai-llms-astonishingly-bad-at-doing-proofs-and-disturbingly-using-blarney-in-their-answers/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into artificial intelligence (AI) @artificial-intelligence-ai-forbes
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Justinian I’s Surprising Recapture of Rome: What Happened?
https://www.thecollector.com/justinian-i-recapture-rome/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into THECOLLECTOR @thecollector-thecollector
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hand-cræft, m.n: skill or power of the hand. (HOND-KRAFT / ˈhand-ˌkræft)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
🔴 💻 **Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science**
“_Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good._”
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01067-2.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Science @science
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**Explaining the Trump Tariff Equation**
Stand-up Maths
#Video length: eighteen minutes and twenty-five seconds.
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Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the Mercator map
🔴 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **Zed or Zee? How pervasive are Americanisms in Britons' use of English?**
🔴 Word of the week: Groceries
Nancy Friedman
"_Grocery is derived from grocer, “a wholesale dealer or merchant,” which entered English in the early 1400s from French, where it was spelled grossier._"
🔗 https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-groceries
🔴 🇺🇸 **Trump's Lightning-Fast Tariffs: The Legal Logistics Behind His Process**
“_President Trump skipped the normal months-long process to impose tariffs and instead used a 1970s to bypass them. This leaves him open to legal challenges and actions from Congress._”
#Video length: five minutes and six seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4sC81PvDO0.
#Tariffs #WSJ #Economy #Economics #Trump #USA #US #UnitedStates @economics
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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