Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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Joined Nov 2022
**Lawrence of Arabia: A View from 1939**
🔗 https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/04/24/lawrence-of-arabia-a-view-from-1939/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archives #Arabia @histodon @histodons
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📐 **Do students around the world think they know more than they do?**
“_Analyzing PISA data to uncover patterns of overclaiming in mathematics._”
🔗 https://students-overclaim.netlify.app/.
#Maths #Mathematics #Math #Education #Learning #Students #Data #DataViz
💻 **The ChatGPT surge began in your 8 a.m. lecture: How academia drove students into AI’s arms.**
Gabriel Slark
"_At this moment in history, education is in peril. Coupling political challenges with the rapid involvement of AI (particularly ChatGPT) in our learning environments, the threat becomes magnified._
_We must confront this very real problem. Children are not learning. We are not learning._"
🔗 https://www.miamistudent.net/article/2025/04/chatgpt-college-ai.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Education #Learning #Studying #Academia @ai
📖 **Enough Is Enuf by Gabe Henry review – the battle to reform English spelling**
Matthew Cantor
“_In his amusing and enlightening new book, Gabe Henry traces the history of these efforts, beginning with a 12th-century monk named Orrmin, continuing through the beginnings of American English and the movement’s 19th-century heyday, finally arriving at textspeak._”
#Nonfiction #BookReview #Book #Bookstodon #English #Language #Linguistics @bookstodon @linguistics
🇪🇺 📚 📈 **Online shopping: more people buying print than e-books**
“_When shopping online in 2024, print remained the preferred format for readers, with 14.7% of EU residents purchasing printed books, magazines or newspapers online in the 3 months before the survey - more than double the 6.8% who downloaded e-books or audiobooks._”
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/edn-20250423-1.
#EU #Europe #News #Data #DataViz #Statistics #Books #Ebooks #Audiobooks @bookstodon
🌍 **'We Need Urgent Global Action': Study Warns Humanity on Path to Trigger 16 Climate Tipping Points**
_“It is clear that we are currently on a dangerous trajectory,” said one University of Exeter professor”_
🔗 https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-tipping-point.
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #FossilFuels @climatechange
📖 **People Turn to Conspiracy Theories in a Subconscious Quest to Feel Like they ‘Matter’, Research Suggests**
“_The science of psychology reveals that people’s judgments and beliefs are strongly guided by their motivations, and because conspiracy narratives make people feel significant and special and often offer hope for a better future, they tend to be taken seriously by ‘significance-deprived’ audiences exposed to them._”
#Research #ConspiracyTheories #Psychology #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon @psychology @bookstodon
🧬 **Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange**
"_Individuals with North African ancestry lived next to and intermingled with a majority of people of mainly Sicilian-Aegean ancestry in all sampled Punic sites, including Carthage. Moreover, genetic networks across the Mediterranean suggest that shared demographic processes—such as trade, intermarriage, and population mixing—played a critical role in shaping these communities._"
#Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Genomics #Science #History #Phoenicia #Culture @science
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
April 23, 1564, birthday of William Shakespeare. In his "As You Like It" he mentions "toadstones."
Toadstones or Bufonites are gemstones growing in the head of a living toad. The stone must be recovered by putting the toad on a red blanket or by exposing the animal to heat - the animal will then spit out the stone.
📖 🖋️ **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
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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Joined Nov 2022
