Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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Joined Nov 2022
📚 **What Makes a Good Review Article or Profile**
"_A review article bundles three or more books on the same topic. The length will depend on the number and type of books assigned, but they are typically at least 3,500 words, which gives a good amount of scope to both discuss the books and develop observations on their contributions to current developments in a disciplinary field._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/09/17/what-makes-a-good-review-article-or-profile/.
🇫🇮 **Rapidly declining population forecast paints bleak picture for Finland's future**
"_One of the only ways out of the predicament would rely on continued immigration, according to an expert._"
🇬🇧 **UK loses life sciences investment as pharma companies halt expansion plans**
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🇺🇸 🚗 **Driven to Default: The Economy-Wide Risks of Rising Auto Loan Delinquencies**
"_Auto finance is at a breaking point, as Americans owe over $1.66 trillion in auto debt. Delinquencies, defaults, and repossessions have shot up in recent years and look alarmingly similar to trends that were apparent before the Great Recession._"
#Report #Car #Automobile #Debt #Finance #USA #US #UnitedStates #Economy #Economics
🇺🇸 **Farm bankruptcies on the rise in Midwest states**
"_According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, farmers in the Midwest topped the nation, making 71 filings for bankruptcy, a 69% increase year over year._"
🔗 https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/farm-bankruptcies-on-the-rise-in-midwest-states/.
📖 **The death of the academic book and the path to Open Access**
"_Is publishing academic books a dying trade? And if so, are free e-books from universities likely to deal the final blow?_"
🔗 https://theconversation.com/the-death-of-the-academic-book-and-the-path-to-open-access-19153.
#OpenAccess #Books #Bookstodon #Academia #Academics #Education #Learning #Publishing
📖 **‘Exquisitely rendered’ biography of poet wins Baillie Gifford Prize**
🔗 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/british-bbc-faber-sunday-times-stalingrad-b1040838.html.
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**This man predicted the Moon landing (in 1638!)**
#Video length: short
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f8nVn9eUSGE.
#History #EarlyModern #Science #HistSci #Physics #Space #Moon
**Understanding error bars in charts**
"_Error bars illustrate the margin of error for a survey estimate by showing how precise that estimate is._"
🔗 https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2025/09/16/understanding-error-bars-in-charts/.
🌍 **Global Plastics Outlook**
"_Plastic leakage to the environment is projected to double to 44 million tonnes (Mt) a year, while the build-up of plastics in aquatic environments will more than triple, exacerbating environmental and health impacts._"
🔗 https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/global-plastics-outlook_aa1edf33-en.html.
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Fund managers dumping UK stocks at fastest rate in two decades
https://www.cityam.com/fund-managers-dumping-uk-stocks-at-fastest-rate-in-two-decades/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business (UK Edition) @business-uk-edition-FlipboardUK
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🇺🇸 **U.S. Latino economy hits $4 trillion, surging ahead of national GDP**
"_Latino GDP has grown at an average 4.4% annually — second-fastest among the world's 10 largest economies, trailing only China and on par with India._"
🔗 https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2025/09/15/us-latino-gdp.
🏦 **BIS warns of mounting disconnect between debt and stock markets**
📚 **Nonfiction Books to look out for in September 2025**
#Video length: nine minutes and fifteen seconds.
🇬🇧 **Britain’s economy boomed after the Romans, Aldborough study reveals**
"_Britain’s industrial economy did not collapse when the Romans left and went on to enjoy a Viking-age industrial boom, a new study finds, undermining a stubborn ‘Dark Ages’ narrative._"
#History #Archaeology #Britain #Economy #Romans #RomanEmpire
🖥️ 🏴 **It’s harder than expected to implement AI in the NHS, finds study**
_“A key problem was that clinical staff were already very busy – finding time to go through the selection process was a challenge, as was supporting integration of AI with local IT systems and obtaining local governance approvals."_
🔗 https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/09/ucl-study-finds-challenges-in-implementing-ai-in-the-nhs/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #England #NHS #Health
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@bibliolater Yes, certainly many promising ideas were not developed further because of neglect. But few as promising as the atomic #philosophy were actively suppressed. https://www.deepthinkers.net/why-did-aristotle-reject-democritus-idea-of-the-atom/
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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