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**Why humans evolved blue eyes**

“_And here comes the mystery: for no evident reason, and in an evolutionary time span as short as a few thousand years, the number of people with blue eyes proceeded to expand from one to millions._”

Bressan P (2025) Why humans evolved blue eyes. Front. Psychol. 16:1442500. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1442500.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Psychology #Academia #Academic @psychology

**High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide**

“_Here we show how GHG emissions from consumption and investments attributable to the wealthiest population groups have disproportionately influenced present-day climate change._”

Schöngart, S., Nicholls, Z., Hoffmann, R. et al. High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02325-x.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Science #Academia #Academic @climatechange @science

💻 **Surveillance And Data**

_“All your data belong to us”_

🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/all-your-data-belong-to-us.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Data #Surveillance @ai

**From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?**

“_Results from the shipwrecks near Israel strongly suggest that the ‘bronzization’ of the East Mediterranean, occurring 1500–1300 BC, was primarily driven by European tin sources, particularly from south-west Britain, rather than Central Asian sources. Tin ore finds from settlements across Cornwall and Devon suggest a decentralised production model in prehistory, with agriculture still dominant alongside numerous small alluvial tin workings._”

Williams, R.A. et al. (2025) ‘From Land’s End to the Levant: did Britain’s tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?’, Antiquity, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.41.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #BronzeAge #Trade #Europe #Mediterranean #Britain #Levant #Academia #Academics @archaeodons

📖 **How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond**

"_This book gathers together Roman historians with political scientists and scholars of other periods of authoritarian takeover to explore how open and democratic political systems have historically fallen prey to autocrats._"

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111705446.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Ancient #History #Histodons #PoliticalScience #Authoritarianism #Romans #Empire #RomanEmpire #Imperialism #Academia #Academics @politicalscience @histodons

Afternoon all.

💻 **Use of ChatGPT in universities: 'We're much closer to a crisis than we think' – UJ Professor**

“_If students are relying on AI to complete their assignments, are they truly acquiring the skills their qualifications are meant to certify?_”

🔗 https://www.primediaplus.com/2025/05/06/use-of-chatgpt-in-universities-were-much-closer-to-a-crisis-than-we-think-uj-professor.

#AI #ArtificalIntelligence #Technology #Tech #ChatGPT #Education #Learning #HigherEducation #University @ai

**Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities**

_"By design, engineering has long been entangled with the humanities"_

🔗 https://spectrum.ieee.org/engineering-and-humanities.

#Engineering #Humanities #History #Technology #Tech #HistSci #Science @science

🇨🇷 🇩🇰 **The National Museum confirms: Shipwrecks in Costa Rica are Danish slave ships**

🔗 https://via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddelelse/14369930/the-national-museum-confirms-shipwrecks-in-costa-rica-are-danish-slave-ships.

#Archaeology #Archaeodons #CostaRica #Denmark #History #Slavery #Shipwrecks @archaeodons

🌎 📖 **America, América: A New History of the New World**

“_America, América traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest—the greatest mortality event in human history—through the eighteenth-century wars for independence, the Monroe Doctrine, the coups and revolutions of the twentieth century, and beyond._”

🔗 https://history.yale.edu/publications/america-am-rica-new-history-new-world.

#Review #BookReview #History #Histodons #Americas #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon

Evening all.

🖋 **Why Cursive Writing and Penmanship Is Important**

Jennifer A. Freeman

“_While penmanship is still rigorously taught in many European schools, current American schoolchildren spend more time mastering typing and computer skills than practicing neat handwriting. But traditional handwriting offers unique cognitive benefits that typing simply can’t replicate._”

🔗 https://wordsmarts.com/cursive-penmanship/.

#Cursive #Writing #Penmanship