🇨🇦 **Mysterious carving found in northern Ontario wilderness**
"_Theory is carving was made in early 1800s by Swedish person working for Hudson's Bay Company_"
🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/archeological-discovery-runestone-northern-ontario-1.7558069.
🖋️ **The Handwriting Revolution**
"_Five semesters after ChatGPT changed education forever, some professors are taking their classes back to the pre-internet era._"
#Handwriting #Writing #Education #Learning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
📚 **Oliver Sacks: Why the Oxford English Dictionary is the most ‘coveted and desirable book in the world’**
**Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng-nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo-Siberian Language**
"_Here, we show that linguistic evidence from four independent domains does indeed suggest that the Xiōng-nú and the Huns spoke the same Paleo-Siberian language and that this was an early form of Arin, a member of the Yeniseian language family._"
Bonmann, S. and Fries, S. (2025), Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng-nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo-Siberian Language. Trans Philologic Soc. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12321.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Linguistics #Language #Philology #Academia #Academics @linguistics
**Captain Cook’s missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago**
This year, social media displaced TV and online news websites/apps as the top way Americans get news, according to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). According to their latest Digital News Report, the change is happening all over the world, but "faster and with more impact" in the United States. Here's more detail and other findings from the research, courtesy of Nieman Lab.
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**History: Nova Albion**
On this day in 1579 English explorer Francis Drake landed in what is modern day California claiming the territory for England.
💻 **AI Perceived More Negatively than Climate Science or Science in General**
"_They found that people perceived AI scientists more negatively than climate scientists or scientists in general, and that this negativity is driven by concern about AI scientists’ prudence – specifically, the perception that AI science is causing unintended consequences._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Science #Climate @ai @science
💻 **Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task**
"_Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning._"
Kosmyna, N. et al. (2025) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872.
#Preprint #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMS #ComputerScience #Technology #Tech #Research #Learning #Education @ai
"_Discover how algorithm-driven profiling reshapes self-perception and what that means for the future of who we are online and beyond_"
**How Medieval Monks and Scribes Helped Preserve Classical Culture**
🔗 https://lithub.com/how-medieval-monks-and-scribes-helped-preserve-classical-culture/.
🌍 🌡️ **Global warming may increase the burden of obstructive sleep apnea**
"_High ambient temperatures (99th vs. 25th; 27.3 vs. 6.4 °C) are associated with a ~ 45% increase in the probability of having OSA on a given night, globally. The increase in OSA prevalence in 2023 due to global warming was associated with a loss of 788,198 (489,226 to 1,087,170) healthy life years, and a productivity loss of ~105 million days from impaired workplace attendance in the 29 studied countries._"
Lechat, B., Manners, J., Pinilla, L. et al. Global warming may increase the burden of obstructive sleep apnea. Nat Commun 16, 5100 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60218-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Sleep #Medicine #Heath #Epidemiology #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Academia #Research @climatechange
**Coin hoard spans Roman republic to first emperor**
"_The denarii date from the late 2nd Century BC, in the last tumultuous decades of the Roman republic, to the first Roman emperors and could have been a purse loss._"
💻 ⚖️ **AI hallucinations in court documents are a growing problem, and data shows lawyers are responsible for many of the errors**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Law #Legal #Fake #Citations @ai
🇬🇧 💻 **Policymakers who think AI can help rescue flagging UK economy should take heed**
"_Healthy scepticism is needed because flaw is that large language models remain prone to casually making things up_"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #UK #UnitedKingdom #Politics #UKPol #Business #Economy #Economics @ai @economics
🇺🇸 **How Tariffs Are Breaking US Trade**
"_A Detailed Look at How US Trade Flows Are Unraveling Amidst Trump's Trade War_"
🔗 https://www.apricitas.io/p/how-tariffs-are-breaking-us-trade.
#Economy #Economics #Trade #Tariffs #TradeWar #USA #US #UnitedStates @economics
A Gothic book of hours for the industrial age, the pages of this 1886 prayer book were not printed, but rather woven on the Jacquard loom — a proto-computer programmed with more than 100,000 punch cards: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/lyon-woven-prayer-book
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