Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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Joined Nov 2022
📖 🖋️ **Conserving and digitising the oldest known set of lecture notes from medieval Oxford**
“_This manuscript includes lectures on the Psalms from Alexander’s teaching in the 1190s, and Treatise on the Strong Woman, an analysis of the leading roles of Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary in the medieval church_”
#Digital #Manuscipt #Study #Notes #Archive #Library #Oxford #C13th #Medieval #Medievodons #History @medievodons
🇺🇸 📉 **The domestic fallout from Trump’s tariffs, in 3 charts**
“_Businesses and consumers are already appearing to panic._”
🔗 https://www.vox.com/politics/409835/trump-tariffs-trade-war-consumer-confidence-manufacturing.
#Data #DataViz #Trump #Economy #Money #Politics #USPol #Economics #Business #Trade @economics
🚢 📊 **February 2025 Volumes and Global Trade Insights: A Deeper Dive into the Decline**
“_Volumes in February stood at 13.1 million TEUs, reflecting a 13.6% decrease from January 2025 and a 0.7% decline compared to February 2024. Notably, in February 2024, the month-on-month drop from January was only -8.9%, highlighting the sharp decline observed in February 2025._”
🔗 https://containerstatistics.com/february-2025-press-release/.
📸 **Astronomy Picture of the Day [22/04/2025] **
_“Terminator Moon: A Moonscape of Shadows”_
🇺🇸 **DHL will stop shipping packages over $800 to U.S. customers due to new customs rules**
_“The carrier cited the 10% tariffs implemented by the Trump administration in early April, which it says had the effect of subjecting parcels worth over $800 to increased scrutiny by U.S. customs inspectors. That has led to shipping backlogs, DHL said.”_
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371307/dhl-stops-shipping-packages-800-us-customers.
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Websites full of AI slop to maximise ad impressions.
The digital equivalent of chimps flinging faeces at people as they walk by.
What a disappointing waste of computers and electricity.
📏 **150 years ago, the Metre Convention determined how we measure the world — a radical initiative for the time**
📚 **16th-Century ‘Bookwheel’ Solved the Age-Old Problem of Reading Too Many Books at One Time**
Regina Sienra
"_Centuries ago, academics had an alternative to juggling several tomes and propping them open all over a table. They used the bookwheel, a rotating device that allowed people to browse multiple books at once, allowing them to go from one text to the next without even having to stand up._"
🔗 https://mymodernmet.com/bookwheel-history/.
#Image attribution: Gaspard Grollier de Serviere, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grollier%27s_Reading_Wheel.jpg.
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Obsession with IQ: A reliable sign of low intelligence?
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/obsession-with-iq-a-reliable-sign
On how a relentless focus on 'IQ scores' can mean the opposite of what is (presumably) intended.
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**The end of globalization (as we know it).... I guess.**
The Burning Archive
“_Trump blasted tariffs. The world screamed, “It is the end of globalization as we know it. I guess...? But what does history say?_”
#Video length: twenty minutes and forty-one seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMZ1X6dgT-I.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Globalization #Sociology @sociology @histodon @histodons
📜 🇰🇿 **Kazakh Manuscript on Khans’ Genealogy Added to UNESCO Memory of World Register**
_“The ‘Khandar Shezhiresi’, a scroll over three meters long, traces the genealogy of the rulers of the Kazakh steppes. It not only highlights their deep historical roots but also offers insights into their connections with other peoples and civilizations from the sixth to the 19th centuries,”_
**10 charts prove that clean energy is winning — even in the Trump era**
“_Climate progress is actually good business._”
🔗 https://www.vox.com/climate/377072/data-energy-trends-renewables-transition-escape-velocity.
#Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Energy #Politics #Renewables #Solar #Business #Data #DataViz @climatechange
📖 **“Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” by Laura Spinney**
Peter Gordon
“_The “Proto” in the title Laura Spinney’s new book is a reference to “Proto-Indo-European” (PIE), the language from which modern tongues as diverse as Hindi, Greek, English, Russian and Armenian derive; this was perhaps deemed not quite fascinating enough, so the book was given a subtitle presumably more in tune with the contemporary zeitgeist._”
🔗 https://asianreviewofbooks.com/proto-how-one-ancient-language-went-global-by-laura-spinney/.
#BookReview #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #Ancient #Languages #Linguistics @bookstodon @linguistics
🇵🇾 📜 **Stolen 16th-century manuscript returned to Paraguayan authorities**
"_The 13-page item detailing laws governing indigenous life under Spanish colonial rule and linked to the 1603 abolition of the encomienda system was valued at US$ 20,000. It had been stolen from Paraguay's National Archives and put up for auction in New York in 2013._"
Good afternoon.
**Nazareth, Galilee and Jerusalem: ITN Explores the Holy Land (1958)**
ITN Archive
“_On 1 May 1958, ITN’s Michael Barely took viewers on a trip around the Holy Land. He reported from several sites of Biblical significance including including Nazareth, Ashkelon and the Sea of Galilee. He ended his report in Jerusalem where he watched tourists navigate the border of the divided city (in 1958, West Jerusalem was under Israeli control while East Jerusalem was annexed by Jordan)._”
#Video length: sixteen minutes and fifty-three seconds.
🇺🇸 **Dr. Boucher: Trump Is Not the Cause, but a Symptom**
“_Dr. Boucher warns that even without Trump, populist forces will endure, backed by media ecosystems, think tanks, and loyalist networks._”
🔗 https://www.populismstudies.org/dr-boucher-trump-is-not-the-cause-but-a-symptom/.
#Trump #Populism #Immigration #SociaMedia #FakeNews #Nativism #PoliticalScience #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates @politicalscience
We have reached such a level of malfeasance and mendacious dishonesty that the lies do not even have to make sense any more, as long as they confirm to our own personal biases they are accepted as truth.
🇯🇴 **Pharaonic inscription of Ramses III discovered in southern Jordan**
“_A hieroglyphic inscription bearing the royal cartouche of Pharaoh Ramses III (1186–1155 BC) has been discovered in the Wadi Rum Reserve in southern Jordan, marking what officials described as a significant archaeological breakthrough._”
🔗 https://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/pharaonic-inscription-ramses-iii-discovered-southern-jordan
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Jordan #Pharaoh #WadiRum @archaeodons
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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