Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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US economy shrank 0.5% in the first quarter, worse than earlier estimates had revealed
https://apnews.com/article/economy-tariffs-trump-gdp-shrink-86d1f15e66c646ac4ce88ffc0a956942?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-AssociatedPress
📖 🎙️ **J. P. Mallory, "The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story"**
"_In The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story (Thames & Hudson, 2025) Mallory explores ancient migrations, linguistics, and archaeology, applying cutting-edge genetic research to untangle the key arguments with wit and verve._"
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-indo-europeans-rediscovered.
#Audio #Podcast #History #Archaeology #Linguistics #Book #Bookstodon @histodons @linguistics @archaeodons
🇰🇿 **Kazakh Archaeologists Uncover Scythian-Era Treasures**
"_The standout find was a gold ring engraved with a lion, a symbol of strength and authority. Researchers believe the image combines human and animal traits, reflecting the spiritual worldview of the Saka tribes in the 3rd-4th centuries BC._"
🔗 https://timesca.com/kazakh-archaeologists-uncover-scythian-era-treasures/
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**Denmark’s ambitious plan to boost plant-based foods. FT Rethink**
#Video length: seven minutes and five seconds.
🧬 **Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch**
"_But critics fear the research opens the way for unscrupulous researchers seeking to create enhanced or modified humans._"
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Plutarch & His Parallel Lives: The Biographer of Greece & Rome
https://www.thecollector.com/plutarch-parallel-lives/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Ancient History @ancient-history-thecollector
📚 **Summer 2025 reading from MIT**
🔗 https://news.mit.edu/2025/summer-reading-from-mit-0626.
#Reading #ReadingList #List #Books #Bookstodon #MIT @bookstodon
💻 **AI blunders: Six-finger hands, two suns and Jesus Christ on a surfboard in a stormy sea**
"_AI's cultural bias was apparent when a user prompted the tool to depict Jesus Christ walking on water in a stormy sea and received an image of Christ on a surfboard in a stormy sea._"
🔗 https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-ai-blunders-finger-suns-jesus.html.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Technology #Tech #Blunders @ai
Evening all.
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Reading Mary Beard about Pompeii, love how she supports her statements with argument. Fascinated to learn about the amount of salvaging and/or looting that took place in the months and years after the town died. Survivors neatly extracted all the statuary and the town bylaws placard cast in bronze from the forum.
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UK firms to be protected from cheap imports
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5v2821q2ro?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-BBCNews
**Medieval experts reveal how they found Harvard’s Magna Carta**
"_An investigation led by Prof David Carpenter of King’s College London revealed the document held at Harvard Law School since the 1940s and thought to be a copy had actually been issued by King Edward I in 1300._"
**‘Who were the first people in the Pacific?’: An interview with Dr. Dylan Gaffney**
"_Dr. Gaffney explains human dispersal in the Pacific, the role it played in human cultural evolution, and the questions about the topic that are still unanswered._"
#Video length: sixteen minutes and two seconds
🏴 **Great Bibles reunited for first time in 500 years**
**How Lexington Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan led a disastrous Civil War raid**
🔗 https://www.kentucky.com/news/know-your-kentucky/article309374245.html.
Afternoon all.
🇺🇸 **US bond market braces for surge in Treasury supply in second half**
"_With the flood of Treasuries, market participants are left to wonder: who is going to buy them all?_"
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-bond-market-braces-surge-treasury-supply-second-half-2025-06-24/.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Business #Bonds #BondMarket #Debt #Economy #Economics @economics
🇮🇳 🇨🇳 **The Demographic Race between India and China**
"_Using multi-dimensional demographic projections by age, sex, education, and labor force participation, we show that China’s current apparent demographic travails will not necessarily threaten its leading status relative to India for most of the next half century given India’s disadvantage in educational attainment and very low female labor force participation._"
Marois, G., Gietel-Basten, S. & Lutz, W. The Demographic Race between India and China. Popul Res Policy Rev 44, 44 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-025-09966-y.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Demography #Demographics #Population #India #China #Education #Academics
**The Anthropocene illusion**
"_Zed Nelson’s photographs capture how nature has become a curated experience._"
🔗 https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/24/1118442/zed-nelson-photography-nature-curation/.
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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