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**"The Holy City" 1951 Jerusalem Travelogue Omar Mosque House Of Caiaphas Gethsemane**
#Video length: ten minutes and nine seconds.
**A Symbol of Immortality: Evidence of Honey in Bronze Jars Found in a Paestum Shrine Dating to 530–510 BCE**
"_Our multianalytical approach detected lipids, saccharide decomposition products, hexose sugars, and major royal jelly proteins supporting the hypothesis that the jars once also contained honey/honeycombs._"
Luciana da Costa Carvalho, Elisabete Pires, Kelly Domoney, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, and James S. O. McCullagh Journal of the American Chemical Society Article ASAP DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c04888
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Chemistry #Honey #Academia @science
🎙️ **The Truth About Bullshit: On Harry Frankfurt**
"_Named for the famous philosophy treatise by the late Harry Frankfurt, The Truth About Bullshit podcast seeks to illuminate our world and the pressing issues therein by calling out ‘bullshit’ – a misrepresentation of truth – in all its forms. We’re excited to introduce a short series of interviews with experts on fields ranging from AI to business, to politics._"
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-truth-about-bullshit-on-harry-frankfurt.
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For the fans of the eleventh century (there are dozens of us!), here's a 30% pre-order discount from @oxunipress.bsky.social on my book, due out next month.
📱 🇮🇳 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 **India overtakes China in smartphone exports to the U.S. as manufacturing jumps 240%, report shows**
"_Smartphones assembled in India accounted for 44% of U.S. imports of those devices in the second quarter, a significant increase from just 13% in the same period last year. Total volume of smartphones made in India soared 240% from a year earlier, Canalys said._"
🔗 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/29/india-surpasses-chinese-smartphone-shipments-to-us.html.
#Smartphone #Industry #Manufacturing #India #USA #US #UnitedStates #China #Economy #Exports #Technology #Tech
🇮🇹 **Italy's working age population set to shrink by one fifth, statistics agency says**
"_In its latest demographic forecast, Istat predicted that the number of people in the 15-64 age group would fall from 37.4 million in 2024 to 29.7 million in 2050, with their share of the total resident population falling to 54.3% from 63.5%._
_In the same period, the percentage of residents over the age of 65 is projected to rise to 34.6% of the total, from 24.3% currently, and the share of children up to the age of 14 to fall to 11.2% from 12.2%._"
📖 🎙️ **Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)**
"_The Perfect Fascist pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage―brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records―to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall._"
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Fascism #Italy #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🎙️ **Summer picks: Where did our attention spans go, and can we get them back?**
🇺🇸 💵 *Americans Are Not Prepared' Says Harvard Economist About China's De-Dollarization - 'Interest Rates Are Going To Be Higher For A Very, Very Long Time'**
#USA #US #UnitedStates #USDollar #Dollar #Economy #Economics #InterestRates @economics
🇺🇸 **U.S. Treasury yields jump 6 to 8 bps amid shocking multi-billion outflows**
"_As per the empirical analysis based on daily data during January 2021 to March 2025, BIS says an inflow of $3.5 billion into stablecoins is associated with 3-month T-bill yields falling by up to 2-2.25 basis points (bps) within 10 days._"
🔗 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-treasury-yields-jump-6-211151634.html.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Finance #Economy #Economics @economics@a.gup.pe
📚 **Here are the 13 books that made the Booker Prize longlist**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/29/nx-s1-5482914/2025-booker-prize-longlist-fiction.
**New research dispels myth of conspiracy theorists as isolated outsiders**
_Co-author Professor Robin Canniford, also from Bath’s School of Management, said: “The participatory aspect of conspiracy theories encourages people to become involved. It can feel very positive and supportive. It’s a thriving and welcoming social scene where people feel they are better informed about the workings of the world and are ready to take action.”
**Help Required**
I have changed my very old and slow desktop to #LinuxMint a few weeks ago, but still I am not able to set the system to an acceptable screen resolution. Either the desktop, icons and pages are too large or too small. I cannot find a happy medium. This is after watching many online tutorials. If anyone has suggestions, I would be most grateful to read them.
**Edinburgh University had major role in racist theories - review finds**
_The review points out that although the Enlightenment is often celebrated for its influence on modern liberal democracy, its thinkers were also responsible for nurturing "some of the most damaging ideas in human history"._
🇺🇸 🌡️ **As much of the US braces for extreme heat, statistics show 2,000 die from it annually**
🔗 https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-braces-extreme-heat-statistics-show-2000-die/story?id=124136576
#Data #Statistics #Heat #Heatwave #Weather #Climate #Health #USA #US #UnitedStates
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Almost 50% of Microplastic Pollution Comes From Cars. Here's Why.
https://www.sciencealert.com/almost-50-of-microplastic-pollution-comes-from-cars-heres-why?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Environment @environment-ScienceAlert
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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Poised to Wipe Out Entire Categories of Human Jobs
https://futurism.com/sam-altman-openai-wipe-out-categories-human-jobs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All About Artificial Intelligence @all-about-artificial-intelligence-Futurism
🖥️ 🇬🇧 **Public Divided On Use Of AI In Schools**
"_Approximately two thirds (62%) of UK adults oppose teachers using AI to mark coursework, 27% support it._
_89% of those polled are against students using AI to entirely complete their school coursework, 5% think it’s acceptable._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/public-divided-on-AI-in-schools.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Schools #Learning #UK #UnitedKingdom #Poll #Data
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The present is a foreign country; we do things differently here.
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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