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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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**Here’s why platinum price has soared to a 4-year high**
"_Gold price rallying has seen investors shift to a discounted option – platinum. The shift in demand is particularly high in the jewelry sector. For instance, according to the World Platinum Investment Council, sales of gold jewelry in China dropped by 32% in Q1’25 YoY while that of platinum jewelry was up by 26% during the same period._"
🔗 https://invezz.com/news/2025/06/12/heres-why-platinum-price-has-soared-to-a-4-year-high/.
💲 📖 **Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead**
🔗 https://literaryreview.co.uk/greenbacks-down-first-editions-up.
#Nonfiction #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Economics #Finance @bookstodon @finance @economics
**What future for truth?**
"_Believing in something, these days, is often a way of conveying which social group one belongs to, rather than the result of evidence weighing. Coupled with the ruthless business model of the attention economy, we have arrived at this new era._"
🔗 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/what-future-for-truth/
🇩🇰 **‘Very rare’ Viking grave uncovered in Denmark by accident**
"_Discovery points to Danish town being seat of power during reign of famous king in 900s_"
**Gold 'Effectively The Reserve Currency' Says Nassim Taleb**
"_The Black Swan author Nassim Taleb says the US dollar is losing its status as a reserve currency as central banks build up gold reserves and investors see the US as more risky._"
#Video length: thirteen minutes and fifty seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5F4Vffnc_E.
#Gold #USDollar #Dollar #USA #US #UnitedStates #Economy #Economics @economics
🇮🇪 **Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe**
"_Uncover the secrets of the scribes who penned poems about Viking raids, complained about writing conditions and wrote thousands of learned comments in Irish while copying a Latin grammar book, the world-famous Institutiones grammaticae of Priscian._"
'Your rectum isn't designed for coffee': A very serious doctor probes TikTok's new enema trend | BBC Science Focus Magazine https://www.sciencefocu...
🇨🇦 **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**
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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_"
The Algorithmic You: When Platforms Decide Who You Are https://medium.com/mental-gecko/the-algorithmic-you-when-platforms-decide-who-you-are-34908d...
**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
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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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