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🇺🇸 🇨🇳 **Kansas Soybean Association concerned about farm bankruptcies**
"_Little also says that while things look rough now for Kansas soybean farmers, they remain optimistic that the U.S. and China can still figure out a deal that will get China back to purchasing soybeans from the U.S._"
🔗 https://www.ksnt.com/news/kansas/kansas-soybean-association-concerned-about-farm-bankruptcies/.
#News #Soybean #Farming #Kansas #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates #China
**How Google Makes Billions Off You—And How To Opt Out**
"_We take a deep dive into how Google generates astronomical revenue by following you—and how to opt out._"
#Video length: nine minutes and twelve seconds.
🇬🇧 **How the English Civil War Shaped the Future of Great Britain**
🔗 https://lithub.com/how-the-english-civil-war-shaped-the-future-of-great-britain/.
#England #History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #UK #UnitedKingdom
📚 🖋️ **The HUGE Problem with Writing Nonfiction with AI**
#Video length: seventeen minutes and forty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIUNAVM_67I.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Writing #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**The Book of Esther Between Judaism and Christianity**
🇩🇪 **New evidence of long-distance travellers in Seddin during the Bronze Age**
_”The strontium signatures of most of the buried individuals point both to south Scandinavia as well as Central Europe, and possible northern Italy. This is in good accordance with the archaeological knowledge that shows intensified trade between these regions”._
🔗 https://www.gu.se/en/news/new-evidence-of-long-distance-travellers-in-seddin-during-the-bronze-age.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodons #BronzeAge #Germany
📚 **Cambridge and Max Planck announce OA book agreement**
"_Under this new model, new Cambridge books by authors at Max Planck Institutes will be eligible for open access publishing. Backlist titles will also be eligible for open access conversion on a case-by-case basis, and Max Planck researchers will be granted unlimited access to books on Cambridge Core._"
🔗 https://www.researchinformation.info/news/cambridge-and-max-planck-announce-oa-book-agreement/.
🌳 **Forest soils accumulate microplastics through atmospheric deposition**
"_We conclude that forests are good indicators for atmospheric microplastic pollution and that high microplastic concentrations in forest soils indicate a high diffuse input of microplastics into these ecosystems._"
Weber, C.J., Bigalke, M. Forest soils accumulate microplastics through atmospheric deposition. Commun Earth Environ 6, 702 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02712-4.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Geosciences #Science #Chemistry #Environment #Plastics #Pollution #Academia #Academics
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🇺🇸 **US farmers face 'financial calamity' without extra aid soon, Republican lawmakers say**
"_The federal government is already expected to spend more than $40 billion on payments to farmers in 2025, the second-highest amount since 1933, according to USDA data._"
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The past tense of ‘to go’ is ‘went’, but this form used to belong to the verb ‘to wend’.
We call verbs like ‘to go’ suppletive: they’re cooperations of seperate verbs.
Surprisingly, ‘to bring’ is suppletive too: ‘brought’ comes from a different verb than ‘bring’.
Because of their similarity, these closely related verbs merged long ago – and they did so in most Germanic languages.
My new graphic tells you all about their past.
In certain varieties of English, people say ... 1/
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📺 **Is TV's Golden Age (Officially) Over? A Statistical Analysis**
🔗 https://www.statsignificant.com/p/is-tvs-golden-age-officially-over.
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **The UK must guard against new risks to financial stability coming from the US**
"_Financial services are critical to future UK productivity and growth, but regulators should be wary of deepening cooperation with US counterparts that could expose the UK to greater risk._"
🔗 https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/09/uk-must-guard-against-new-risks-financial-stability-coming-us.
#Finance #Business #Economy #Economics #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates
🌍 **The true size of Africa**
"_For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations._"
🌍 **The true size of Africa**
"_For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations._"
**Nazi Germany imposes Nuremberg Laws stripping Jews of citizenship – archive, 1935**
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/17/nazi-germany-imposes-nuremberg-laws-stripping-1935
📚 : youtube: **How Productivity Culture Killed The Joy of Reading - And How To Get It Back**
#Video length: twenty-two minutes and fifteen seconds.
📖 **Why footnotes matter**
🇺🇸 **Defining “White Trash”**
"_Taylor writes that the term “white trash” emerged after the Civil War, used by white elites to disparage poor whites who worked alongside Black laborers as sharecroppers and tenant farmers._"
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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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