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**“We Lost Centuries”: How Monks Erased Archimedes’ Work and Delayed Science by Hundreds of Years**
"_Accidentally erased by monks and rediscovered through cutting-edge tech, this ancient text could have changed the course of history._"
**“We Lost Centuries”: How Monks Erased Archimedes’ Work and Delayed Science by Hundreds of Years**
"_Accidentally erased by monks and rediscovered through cutting-edge tech, this ancient text could have changed the course of history._"
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From Cornell University Press:
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🏴 **This professor teaches his psychology students to run a marathon**
"_Parkinson, an avid marathoner himself, uses distance running as a real-world laboratory to apply psychological concepts that are often taught to students only in theory._"
#Wales #University #Professor #Education #Learning #Health #Fitness #Marathon #Psychology
📚 **Are books a hobby or a necessity for wellbeing? New research shows the link between reading and better mental health**
"_Of the adults surveyed, 37% said that reading had helped them learn something new, and 16% reported that books made them feel less lonely. One in four adults also credited reading before bed as helpful in getting a better night’s sleep._"
#Stress #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Reading #Books #Bookstodon
📚 **Are books a hobby or a necessity for wellbeing? New research shows the link between reading and better mental health**
"_Of the adults surveyed, 37% said that reading had helped them learn something new, and 16% reported that books made them feel less lonely. One in four adults also credited reading before bed as helpful in getting a better night’s sleep._"
#Stress #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Reading #Books #Bookstodon
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A key market data point is signaling fear about America’s economy
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/14/markets/us-treasury-bond-market-fed-rate-cuts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business and Tech @business-and-tech-CNN
🔭 **Billions of stars, one winning photograph: the core of Andromeda**
_The photographers say, “This image is not just about capturing Andromeda’s beauty - it is an effort to bring out the dynamic processes shaping its evolution, from the birth of new stars to the influence of interstellar structures near its core.”_
🔗 https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/billions-stars-one-winning-photograph-core-andromeda.
Morning all.
🇺🇸 **Trump Forewarns Of Massive Debt If Supreme Court Reverses Tariffs: 'We Would Have Give Back Trillions And Trillions Of Dollars'**
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**DNA tests: Who is getting rich with the data from our genes?**
"_50 million people worldwide have already had their genes tested, providing private providers with valuable data. The data sets are already being used and monetized by pharmaceutical companies. Critics fear that insurance companies or banks will also access the genetic data of potential customers in the future._"
#Video length: fifty-one minutes and fifty-five seconds.
Finally, overcome the problems with my computer, now I am back!
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The only reason most CEOs are obsessed with AI is that it drives the stock price up. Consequently, their compensation goes up. No technical reason. No wish to reinvent the workforce. No long-term plan. Just a market craze.
#AI #ceo
https://futurism.com/ceos-ai-disaster
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“Consumer prices rose 0.4% in August, driving the annual inflation rate to 2.9%, the highest since January, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Thursday. The reading marked an acceleration from the 2.7% increase seen in July, with price hikes driving up the cost of Americans’ most basic needs.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/economy/us-cpi-consumer-price-index-inflation-august
🇫🇷 **France credit score downgraded to lowest on record amid political crisis**
"_....Fitch downgraded France's sovereign credit score on Friday to the country's lowest level on record, stripping the eurozone's second-largest economy of its AA- status..._"
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“Unemployment, inflation and GDP growth will be worse this year than projected, budget office says”
https://apnews.com/article/cbo-outlook-trade-tariffs-58a06e8b72aab4f145e2ca18f44549a4
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#OTD in 1756 German writer Benedikte Naubert was born.
She "anonymously published more than 50 historical novels and is considered a pioneer of the genre in the 1780s. Naubert wrote under the pseudonyms Verfasser des Walther von Montbarry, Verfasser der Alme, Verfasserin des Walther von Montbarry, and Fontanges. Today she is largely unknown, even in Germany."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikte_Naubert
Books by Naubert at PG:
🇺🇸 🇨🇳 If it is only a threat, the Chinese may well be able to ignore it.
🔗 https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/asia-c2h6qh4lz/-/a-4Gc482uqS1WOZadsO1VmDg%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0.
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CEOs Are Obsessed With AI, But Their Pushes to Use It Keep Ending in Disaster
https://futurism.com/ceos-ai-disaster?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All About Artificial Intelligence @all-about-artificial-intelligence-Futurism
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Inventor of the essay Michel de Montaigne died #onthisday in 1592. He was 59 years old. Here he is on the importance of facing death head on: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/that-to-study-philosophy-is-to-learn-to-die-1580?utm_content=buffer372d1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer #OTD
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