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Afternoon all.

🧬 **Scientists reconstruct 10,500-year-old woman’s face using DNA**

🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/19/science/10500-year-woman-facial-reconstruction-intl-scli.

#Ancient #DNA #Science #Research @science

**Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English**

"_This thesis examines the way in which Germanic dialects, which were brought to Britain by settlers in the post-Roman period and which ultimately evolved into Old English, came to predominate in the southern and eastern parts of the island over a stretch of roughly two centuries spanning the fifth to the seventh._"

Mitrovic, D. (2025). <i>Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English</i> [University of Chicago]. https://doi.org/10.6082/UCHICAGO.15187.

#Thesis #OldEnglish #Language #Linguistics @linguistics

**A century of science history: the Museo Galileo in Florence celebrates its first 100 years with an exhibition**

🔗 https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitions/a-century-of-science-history-the-museo-galileo-in-florence-celebrates-its-first-100-years-with-an-exhibition.

#History #Histodons #Science #HistSci @histodons @science

**Ancient linguistic clues reveal that the European Huns had Siberian roots**

🔗 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-06-20-ancient-linguistic-clues-reveal-european-huns-had-siberian-roots.

#Ancient #Linguistics @linguistics

**Alaska’s GDP has stagnated, with growth ranking near the U.S. bottom, analysis shows**

Yereth Rosen

"_The state’s GDP – the value of all goods and services – rose by only 0.4% annually on average from 2015 to 2025 when adjusted for inflation, according to the analysis in this month’s Alaska Economic Trends, the magazine published by the department’s research and analysis section. Only North Dakota has slower growth during the period, averaging 0.2% a year._"

🔗 https://alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alaskas-gdp-has-stagnated-with-growth-ranking-near-the-u-s-bottom-analysis-shows/.

#Alaska #Economy #Economics #Analysis @economics

Evening all.

🇬🇧 **Tristan da Cunha: Britain's Most Remote Colony & The Forgotten Garrison**

#Video length: twenty-two minutes and forty-five seconds.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtJ_Mq_Fwq0.

#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Empire #TristanDaCunha #Colony #Imperialism #Colonisation @histodons

🇺🇸 **The U.S. minted 1,000 new millionaires each day last year, UBS report says**

"_U.S. residents accounted for more than half of all new millionaires created across the globe in 2024. The surge in American millionaires was bolstered by robust stock market returns, with the S&P 500 jumping more than 23% last year._"

🔗 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/1000-new-millionaires-created-each-day-2024-ubs-report/.

#USA #US #UnitedStates #Economy

💻 **How AI is Ruining the Electric Grid**

#Video length: twenty-three minutes and nineteen seconds.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3__HO-akNC8.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Electricity @ai

💻 **Energy costs of communicating with AI**

"_Our results reveal strong correlations between LLM size, reasoning behavior, token generation, and emissions. While larger and reasoning-enabled models achieve higher accuracy, up to 84.9%, they also incur substantially higher emissions, driven largely by increased token output._"

Dauner M and Socher G (2025) Energy costs of communicating with AI. Front. Commun. 10:1572947. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1572947.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Research #Article #Energy #Science #Academics @ai @science

🇺🇸 **The Slave Who Hijacked a Confederate Warship & Became the First Black Captain in the US Navy**

🔗 https://wheninyourstate.com/south-carolina/the-slave-who-hijacked-a-confederate-warship-became-the-first-black-captain-in-the-us-navy/.

#History #Histodons @histodons

**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/.

#Platinum #Gold #Commodities #PreciousMetals

💲 📖 **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/

#Truth #Politics

🇩🇰 **‘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_"

🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/viking-grave-denmark-aarhus-rare-b2772109.html.

#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Denmark @archaeodons

**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._"

🔗 https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/Archaeology/Exhibitions/Words-on-the-Wave-Ireland-and-St-Gallen-in-Early-M.

#Ireland #Museum #Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons