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.
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**Japan's population crisis reaches tipping point**
“_Japan has been struggling to cope with a combination of anaemic economic growth and a shrinking population for over 30 years. 2025 marks the tipping point when the rising costs outstrip the country's capacity to pay for them._”
#Video length: twenty minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmdujC0MUKA.
#FT #Japan #Demographics #Demography #Economy #Economics #Population #Asia #Immigration #Birthrate #Fertility #Fertilityrate @economics
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"Einstein's Tutor" by Lee Philips. A 'biography' of Noether's Theorem (the physics one(s)), but with lots of interesting biography of the science and the players at the time: Einstein, Hilbert, Noether and supporting cast (Weyl, Klein etc). Lots of citations, and clearly lots of research went into the book.
I really enjoyed this, but the most surprising new thing I learned was that while Weyl took over from Hilbert as head of the Göttingen mathematics department when Hilbert retired in 1930, he did so reluctantly, saying that Noether should have gotten the job, not him!
🇬🇧 **The transatlantic slave trade in Greenwich**
“_Place, legacy and memory – explore the history of transatlantic slavery in London and Greenwich_”
🔗 https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritime-history/transatlantic-slave-trade-greenwich
#History #Histodons #Slavery #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #London #Greenwich @histodons
**Scientists stunned to find Earth’s core leaking gold and other precious metals**
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/earth-core-gold-leaking-precious-metals-b2756421.html.
Cheap flights from Scotland to US thanks to ‘Trump slump’ https://www.thetimes.com/article/68c64462-844c-445f-be30-92a7e023107f?shareToken=c8847668...
🇺🇸 **No politician irrespective of how brilliant they maybe can evade the gravitational pull of the #bondmarket.**
Bond vigilantes will force Trump into line https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/24/bond-vigilantes-will-force-trump-into-line/?utm_source=f...
Morning all.
🇨🇳 **How Apple trained China to be a world power - Patrick McGee interview**
“_In his new book Apple in China: The Capture of The World's Greatest Company, he contends that China allowed Apple to exploit them so they could in turn exploit Apple, making it impossible for the tech giant to extract itself from the country._”
#Video length: eight minutes and twelve seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43PtL0XQeA8.
#C4News #interview #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Apple #China
**It's not just US bonds. Governments around the world are facing spiraling debt costs.**
🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/bond-yields-rising-japan-us-deficit-spending-debt-carry-trade-2025-5.
💻 **Anthropic’s new AI model (Claude) will scheme and even blackmail to avoid getting shut down**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #AIEthics #Ethics @ai
📖 **Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ**
“_Despite this being the oldest description of Jesus written by a non-Christian, scholars have long doubted its authenticity due to the alleged pro-Christian claims it contains. The present book, however, authenticates Josephus’ authorship and then reveals a startling discovery._”
Schmidt, T C, Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford, 2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 5 May 2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191957697.001.0001, accessed 22 May 2025.
#OpenAccess #OA #Book #Bookstodon #Christianity #Religion #Jesus #JesusChrist #Christ #Theology #Academic @bookstodon @religion
🗺️ 🧲 **Mapping Magnetism**
Abraham Parrish
“_Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator depicted magnetic mountains on what was to be the first published map of the Arctic and North Pole, which was an inset on his world map published in 1569._”
🔭 **Astronomy Picture of the Day**
🇺🇸 💵 **The dollar is struggling to rebound since ‘liberation day.’ Why it may keep falling.**
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Dollar #Forex #Currencies #Economy #Economics @economics
🇺🇸 **3 reasons bond investors are panicking about the US budget deficit**
🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-bill-gop-budget-deficit-bond-market-yields-selloff-2025-5.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Deficit #Debt #BondMarket #Economy #Economics @economics
🧬 **Largest-ever ancient DNA study on a medieval cemetery reveals 1,000 years of genetic history in the Low Countries**
“_Remarkably, it also uncovered the first direct evidence of the plague in medieval Flanders, at a time when no written sources from the town make mention of the disease._”
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Research #News #Ancient #DNA #Palaeogenomics #LowCountries #Medieval #Migration #Plague #Flanders @archaeodons
🇮🇹 **Italian irredentism and propaganda**
“_The history of Italian unification, the emergence of the sentiment of irredentism, and how it was used by fascism during the 20th century._”
🔗 https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/italian-irredentism-and-propaganda.
#History #Histodons #Maps #Cartogrpahy #Italy #Europe @histodons
**Archaeologists Found Someone They Never Expected in an Ancient Chinese Tomb: a Blonde Man**
“_The discovery reveals an unexpected connection to the ancient Silk Road._”
🇺🇸 **Immigration and Citizenship: Why the 1898 Wong Kim Ark Case is Relevant Today by Carol Nackenoff**
🔗 https://kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2025/05/22/immigration-and-citizenship-by-carol-nackenoff/.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Politics #USPol #PoliticalScience #Immigration #Citizenship #History #Histodons @histodons @politicalscience
🇺🇸 **Twenty Facts About Japanese Internment Camps In The United States**
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