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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**Why the UK's extreme weather is 'new normal'**
"_Climate change means there will be longer, hotter summers as well as more powerful storms and floods across the continent, so can anything be done to stop it?_"
#Video length: nine minutes and twenty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hffmQ5UoDU0.
#Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Weather @climatechange
**Everything Has a Price: The Commercial Gaze and the Origins of Corporate Empire**
"_As travel narratives from the early days of the English East India Company—1601 to 1611—show, the mature form of the British Empire took shape via a commercial gaze that increasingly rendered the world as inventory. By the end of this period, such narratives focused obsessively on the dry heights of markets, merchandise, and profit—even when the journeys themselves had been harrowing._"
🗺️ 📻 **The history of mapping takes 50 years to tell**
A radio interview with @mhedney on the Larry Meiller Show discussing the history of cartography.
https://www.wpr.org/shows/larry-meiller-show/ais-mixed-success-and-the-history-of-cartography.
🖥️ "New research suggests the chorus of techno-optimism is based on falsehoods"
#Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #GiftLink #GiftArticle
The great AI delusion is falling apart https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ca85230537c3f46e
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The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including
> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers
I kid you not.
**Political Bibliography**
For those interested in a reading list that incorporates academic articles concerning the politics of the European far right, please look no further than: https://fediscience.org/@kaiarzheimer/114847310894179596, complied by @kaiarzheimer.
#Bibliography #Reading #List #ReadingList #Politics #FarRight #Europe
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Collecting #AncientCoins, particularly those from Rome is popular. But how much do you know about the #Roman #banking system? Invicta has you covered with this 19 minute video on the banking system in #Ancient #Rome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw-TszklK-g (Not much mention of specific coins, but an interesting discussion on how it worked)
#Numismatics #Historian #Histodons #CoinCollecting @numismatics @histodons
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nihte-gala, m.n: nightingale (lit. ‘night-singer’). (NI’HT-uh-GA-la / ˈnɪxt-ə-ˌga-la)
Image: Aberdeen Bestiary; England, c. 1200; Aberdeen University Library, MS 24, f. 52v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
📵 A good #idea?
Dads call for ban on smartphones in schools https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clylxepkeyqo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted ...
**Flag: American Party, 1844-1860**
#History #Flag #KnowNothingParty #AmericanParty #USPol #Politics #Nationalism #Nativism #Populism
#Image attribution: American Party (1844-1860), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digital_Reproduction_of_the_Know-Nothing_Party_Flag.jpg.
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Please report any account that tells you that you need to verify your #Mastodon account to continue using it through a private message. It is a scam. We do not require identity verification. Real staff accounts either have a special role badge on their profile or are verified through the joinmastodon.org domain and will typically never reach out through private messages.
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31 Maria-Elisabeth Brunert/Nadir Weber: Diplomatic Reporting: Negotiating the Truth in Westphalia and Beyond
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-033
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Top 10 Most Educated OECD Countries in 2024 (% of adults aged 25-64 with tertiary education)
1. 🇨🇦 Canada - 63.3%
2. 🇯🇵 Japan - 56%
3. 🇮🇪 Ireland - 55.3%
4. 🇰🇷 South Korea - 54.5%
5. 🇦🇺 Australia - 51.4%
6. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg - 51.3%
7. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 51.3%
8. 🇮🇱 Israel - 50.3%
9. 🇺🇸 United States - 50%
10.🇳🇴 Norway - 48.1%
Source: OECD Education at a Glance 2024
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And now: A thread regarding my thoughts on "1.5°C"--not only as a Paris Agreement target, but also re: relevance to recent #climate events & overlaps (or not) w/geophysical realities. (This was originally written as a response to a journalist, who used excerpts in their article.)
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@bibliolater This guy and the podcast he does with Jess are great.
**The entire history of English in 22 minutes**
#Video length: twenty-two minutes and twenty-one seconds.
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A look at the recent sea surface temperature trend (annual mean) for the Gulf of Mexico... 🫣
See more at https://zacklabe.com/united-states-climate-indicators/
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Diagram of orbits BnF MS Latin 5239; Varia de computo; 10th century; France (Limoges); f.39r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 **Trump has set the stage for a colossal trade war - and it could spiral out of control**
🔗 https://inews.co.uk/news/trump-set-stage-colossal-trade-war-could-spiral-out-of-control-3802860.
📚 **The Association of University Presses: ‘Essential Reading’ on Immigration**
"_The movement of people from one place of residence to another is as old as humankind itself. So how and why does human migration collide with geopolitics periodically, resulting in the demonization of human beings who have chosen to migrate or been forced to flee?_"
#Immigration #Migration #Reading #ReadingList #List #Books #Bookstodon #UniversityPress @bookstodon
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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