Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Scientists claim to have discovered 'new colour' no one has seen before
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyq0n3em41o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-BBCNews
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In the (free to read) newsletter, a look at births and bears. The key graph on the first point is below. https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=6803ac6d6ef25d630e15fb7b&utm_campaign=wp_bump&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&linknum=5&linktot=63
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A New Biography of Hitler Separates the Man From the Myths (Gift Article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/books/review/hitler-ascent-volker-ullrich.html?rsrc=flt&unlocked_article_code=1.A08.tJM1.fa5kCvgjetK0&smid=url-share
🇩🇪 **Thirty Years’ War camp unearthed in Germany reveals daily life and mysteries**
🔗 https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/thirty-years-war-camp-unearthed-in-germany/
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Bravaria #Germany #Europe @archaeodons
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🇺🇸 📈 **Could Trump’s tariffs give a green light for corporate profiteering?**
_“My suspicion is, in an environment where there is a broad expectation of higher inflation in the US, where consumers are generally expecting it, companies will feel more able to go for the price increase option.”_
#Analysis #Trump #Tariffs #Inflation #Economics #Corporations #PriceGouging #Greedflation @economics
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"Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all." -- Pierre-Simon Laplace
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The forgotten Indian explorer who uncovered an ancient civilisation
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k4v4xvpxlo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World @world-BBCNews
**Codex Vigilanus Primeros Numeros Arabigos**
“_The first Arabic/Hindu (Ghobar type) numerals in a Western manuscript, AD 976. From Codex Vigilanus._”
#Image attribution: The original uploader was Srnec at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Vigilanus_Primeros_Numeros_Arabigos.jpg.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math @science
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Speaking of fascism, I recently took a look at the frequency of fascist jargon in the Google Books corpus. What I found is startling: the rise of neo-fascist thought dates to the 1980s.
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/04/15/the-deep-roots-of-fascist-thought/
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The rise in status and importance of practical mathematics during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries #histsci #hitech
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-xlii/
🇨🇳 **Chinese star catalog is the world’s oldest, astronomers claim**
“_Novel computer analysis of records ascribed to legendary Chinese astrologer dates them to nearly 2400 years ago_”
🔗 https://www.science.org/content/article/china-lays-claim-world-s-oldest-surviving-star-catalog.
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Born into a family of merchants, in 1271 a teenage Marco Polo set out for the court of the Mongol emperor – and he would not return to Italy for nearly a quarter of a century. This episode of You're Dead to Me traces Polo's extraordinary life and adventures.
Written by: Hannah Cusworth, Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse, and Greg Jenner
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002913n
The Travels of Marco Polo at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6046
**Profiling misinformation susceptibility**
"_Multilevel modelling showed that Generation Z, non-male, less educated, and more conservative individuals were more vulnerable to misinformation._"
Kyrychenko, Y. et al. (2025) 'Profiling misinformation susceptibility,' Personality and Individual Differences, 241, p. 113177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.113177.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Study #DOI #Misinformation #FakeNews #ConspiracyTheories #Personality #Psychology #Academia #Academics @psychology
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🇺🇸 💵 📖 **Forsyth on Bridges, 'Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower'**
“_The author writes that by focusing on finance she is analyzing the infrastructure of America’s global expansion. Territorial expansion, beginning with the Spanish-American War, meant that the American state required an infrastructure of payments and finance, and so did American business as it internationalized. The decisive events in this narrative include the Spanish-American War, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, World War I, the recession of 1920-21, and the Great Depression._”
Douglas J. Forsyth. Review of Bridges, Mary. Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. March, 2025. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=61536 .
#History #UnitedStates #USA #US #C20th #Finance #Banking #Nonfiction #BookReview #Books #Bookstoson @bookstodon
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#economists raised the probability of a #recession in the next 12 months to 45%. That’s still lower than in 2022 and 2023, when the #Fed was battling high inflation by raising interest rates, chart @wsj.com
https://www.wsj.com/economy/economists-outlook-recession-gdp-pce-unemployment-00d35eb3?mod=djemwhatsnews
🇺🇸 🧈🧈 **Dollar Collapse in Progress, Gold on its Way to $5,000?**
“_The analyst anticipates a stagflation in the United States, much more brutal than that of the 1970s: a prolonged recession coupled with persistently high inflation. Such a shock could erode confidence in US debt, forcing investors the world over to turn away from dollar-denominated assets._”
🔗 https://goldbroker.com/news/greenback-collapse-progress-gold-5000-dollars-3527.
#Gold #Dollar #USDollar #Inflation #Stagflation #Recession #Dedollarization #Economy #Economics @economics
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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