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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**Bursting your bubble: Chewing gum releases microplastics into your saliva, UCLA research shows**
“_The research suggests that regular gum chewers could potentially be ingesting tens of thousands of microplastic particles a year, although the health effect is not known._”
#UCLA #Research #News #Microplastics #ChewingGum #Science @science
☀️ 🛰️ **Solar Orbiter’s widest high-res view of the Sun**
_“The image you see here combines a whopping 200 individual images into the widest high-resolution view of the Sun yet.”_
🔗 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/04/Solar_Orbiter_s_widest_high-res_view_of_the_Sun.
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**Stop Silent Reading - Try This Instead**
Robin Waldun
“_A video on why we struggle to stay awake and make our reading more immersive, and an overlooked technique for overcoming this._”
#Video length: twelve minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
💵 📉 **Dollar has further to fall, says Goldman Sachs chief economist**
“_A weaker dollar, by making exports cheaper, would also help narrow the U.S. trade deficit and help buffer the economy from recession. But Hatzius notes the drivers of dollar weakness matter and reduced appetite for U.S. assets could offset the impact of a weaker currency on financial conditions._”
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Dollar #Finance #Economics @economics
💻 **When it comes to reading the room, humans are still better than AI**
“_Johns Hopkins research shows artificial intelligence models fall short in predicting social interactions, a skill critical for systems to effectively navigate the real world_”
🔗 https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/24/humans-better-than-ai-at-reading-the-room/.
🇺🇸 🎓 **Why these Gen Zers are ditching college degrees for blue-collar careers**
“_With college costs topping $200,000 and white-collar job security slipping, many Gen Zers are skipping four-year degrees for skilled trades._”
🔗 https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/04/24/gen-z-ditching-college-blue-collar-careers.html.
#University #Education #College #Jobs #GenZ #USA #US #UnitedStates
**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”_
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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