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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📖 **A Rare 15th-Century Black Book of Hours Is Getting a Long-Awaited Restoration**
“_The Black Book of Hours is one of only seven known surviving black vellum illuminated manuscripts made by Flemish artists between 1455 and 1480.”_
🔗 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tefaf-restores-black-book-of-hours-2638098.
📖 **Making Money in the Early Middle Ages**
“_An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe”
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177403/making-money-in-the-early-middle-ages.
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Academia #Money #Medieval #Medievodons #Europe @histodons @bookstodon @medievodons
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🇺🇸 📉 **This Year is the 5th Worst Start to a Year in S&P 500 History**
🔗 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/this-year-is-the-5th-worst-start-to-a-year-in-sp-500-history/.
📖 **The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa**
🔗 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adam-laurence-rovner/the-jew-who-would-be-king/.
#BookReview #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #Biography #Colonisation #Colonization #Empire #Imperialism #Africa #Slavery @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Tariffs are Already Stalling the Economy**
“_Tariff Front-Running is Already Showing Up as Reductions in US GDP Growth_”
🔗 https://www.apricitas.io/p/tariffs-are-already-stalling-the.
**English words from Old Norse**
#Video length: nine minutes and fifty-four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSiXpqB8Pr4.
#English #OldNorse #Words #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
**A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode**
“_....the hyper-Catalan numbers 𝐶𝐦 count the number of subdivisions of a polygon into a given number of triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, etc. (its type 𝐦), and we show that their generating series solves a polynomial equation of a particular geometric form. This solution is straightforwardly extended to solve the general univariate polynomial equation._”
Wildberger, N. J. and Rubine, D. (2025) ‘A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode’, The American Mathematical Monthly, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2025.2460966.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Algebra #Polynomials #Academia #Academics
🇨🇦 📚 **36 Canadian books you should be reading in May**
🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/books/readinglists/36-canadian-books-you-should-be-reading-in-may-1.7518507.
#Reading #ReadingList #Canada #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
📚 **Why You Don't Remember What You Read**
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#Video length: twenty-two minutes and forty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY0Kd2aSU1o.
#Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Memory #Tips #Advice @bookstodon
💻 **30% of Microsoft's code is now AI-generated, says CEO Satya Nadella**
#Microsoft #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @ai
Global CEO pay has increased 56 times more than worker wages since 2019 https://www.euronews.com/2025/05/01/global-ceo-pay-has-increased-56-times-m...
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Xbox price rises by £50 amid tariff uncertainty https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cze1zn9d9p4o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Pos...
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Now, this one is truly interesting in terms of economic news:
Foreign Buyers’ Strike Threatens Dollar’s Reign as U.S. Capital Flows Stall (Deutsche Bank)
Key quotes:
- Deutsche Bank identifies a halt in foreign purchases of U.S. stocks and bonds.
- ETF flows show active selling of U.S. bonds and stagnation in equity inflows.
- Dollar at risk as a twin-deficit currency amid capital outflow concerns.
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China-to-U.S. Container Shipments Shrink as Tariffs Bite
https://www.wsj.com/business/logistics/china-to-u-s-container-shipmentsand-shipsshrink-as-tariffs-bite-ba09103c?st=LPPnWj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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ChatGPT Is Already Bungling Product Recommendations
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-product-recommendations?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All About Artificial Intelligence @all-about-artificial-intelligence-Futurism
**Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions**
“_The results indicate that the fertility rate should exceed 2.7 to avoid extinction. The extinction threshold is reduced by a female-biased sex ratio. We argue that the present results explain the observed phenomena of female-biased births under severe conditions as an effective way to avoid extinction._”
Cuaresma DCN, Ito H, Arima H, Yoshimura J, Morita S, et al. (2025) Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions. PLOS ONE 20(4): e0322174. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0322174.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Fertility #Extinction #Population #Anthropology #Academia #Academics @anthropology
🇨🇦 🇲🇽 **Travel companies say Canadians are canceling US travel — and opting for this destination instead**
“_Mexico has emerged as a popular alternative for Canadian travelers skipping the US._”
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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