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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
🧬 **Ancient genomic evidence uncovers a 6th-century cross-border couple between South Asia and East Asia**
"_For Li Dan, genetic analysis reveals a close relationship with modern Brahmins, supporting his Brahmin status and his biography as the progeny of Brahmanic descent. Alongside the eclectic archaeological culture, we believe Li Dan preserved his ethnic heritage while forming an integrated Chinese cultural identity._"
Du, P. et al. (2025) 'Ancient genomic evidence uncovers a 6th-century cross-border couple between South Asia and East Asia,' Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 68, p. 105474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105474.
#Academia #Research #Archaeology #Ancient #DNA #Genetics #Science #Asia
🇺🇸 **Trade war and the dollar anchor**
_“Inhibiting trade flows to and from the United States through tariffs or other means, weakens the force underpinning the dollar’s special role,” the authors write. “… This loss of its safe-haven status leads to a rise in U.S. interest rates, a drop in the world-market value of U.S. firms, capital outflows, and lower U.S. wages. … Without free trade, the U.S. dollar-centric system may collapse entirely or shift to another target currency.”_
🔗 https://www.brookings.edu/articles/trade-war-and-the-dollar-anchor/.
**‘They treat men like vending machines’: Inside the hidden world of social media sperm selling**
🌏 **Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic**
"_We suggest a group with a similar lithic technology became isolated somewhere in the vicinity of the Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kuril region, developing genetically into ancestral American populations. Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas. By ~16,000 to ~15,000 cal yr B.P., they had become widely dispersed across North America._"
David B. Madsen et al., Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic. Sci. Adv.11, eady9545 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ady9545.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Anthropology #Paleolithic #Americas #Asia #Research #Academia
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
“Jefferson said that he sought to treat his enslaved people humanely and no evidence has emerged that he personally whipped them. But his overseers performed that practice, sometimes at his direction. In one such case, a runaway was captured and placed in irons and, as Jefferson wrote, “I had him severely flogged in the presence of his old companions.””
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/thomas-jefferson-battle-norfolk-burning/
🇺🇸 **The Immigrant Who Industrialized America**
"_Eighteenth-century cotton entrepreneur Samuel Slater reminds us that cutting-edge knowledge often resides in brains, not books._"
📌 I suspect that this article was written to show the benefits of migration for a welcoming society. For those concerned about immigration, Mr Slater's change of domicile is not of concern and cannot be used as an example of the benefits of all migrants to a society. For these folks Mr Slater possesses an attribute that many of the migrants of today do not possess namely direct descent from northern European antecedents.
🔗 https://www.city-journal.org/article/samuel-slater-water-cotton-spinning-mill-industrial-revolution.
🇺🇸 🎙️ **Understanding America’s $38 Trillion Debt and the Path Forward**
"_Wharton professor of business economics and public policy breaks down the drivers of America’s surging national debt and outlines sustainable solutions for long-term fiscal stability._"
**The 2 Building Blocks of A Daily Reading Habit**
🔗 https://www.amugofinsights.org/1-2-read-dont-put-your-life-on-hold-to-read/.
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-roman-empires-entire-road-network-mapped.html
**In their own words: medical writings in Middle English**
**Here’s Where the Word “Dude” Came From—And Trust Us, You Are Never Going to Guess This One**
🔗 https://www.rd.com/article/where-the-word-dude-came-from/.
📚 **How Medieval Scribes Balanced the Books**
"_As the medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/how-medieval-scribes-balanced-books.
🇺🇸 **Are We Living James Madison’s Worst Nightmare?**
"_America, he was determined, would have no king. What most worried Madison was the prospect of a populist demagogue._"
🔗 https://kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2025/11/06/are-we-living-james-madisons-worst-nightmare/.
📚 🇳🇴 **Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book**
🖥️ 🤖 **AI Capabilities May Be Overhyped on Bogus Benchmarks, Study Finds**
"_They're dumber than you think and they might be cheating._"
🔗 https://gizmodo.com/ai-capabilities-may-be-overhyped-on-bogus-benchmarks-study-finds-2000682577.
**Network-Based Detection of Wash Trading**
"_Applying this method to the Polymarket exchange, we estimate that transaction patterns indicative of wash trading began to trend upward in July 2024, peaking at nearly 60 percent of volume in December 2024._"
Sirolly, Allen and Ma, Hongyao and Kanoria, Yash and Sethi, Rajiv, Network-Based Detection of Wash Trading (November 06, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5714122.
**How a medieval Oxford friar used light and colour to find out what stars and planets are made of**
**Parallel Fates? Roma and Jews in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia**
"_Whereas Jews endured an almost relentless series of measures intended to segregate and isolate them, Protectorate authorities initially exerted considerable efforts to forcibly integrate Roma into the majority population through restrictions on movement and mandatory schooling._"
Čapková, K. and Frommer, B. (2025) ‘Parallel Fates? Roma and Jews in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’, Journal of Genocide Research, pp. 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2025.2576330.
📚 A Personal Answer To The Lack Of Space For Books
Recently I noticed the ever decreasing amount of space in my home for more books. As a result I decided that I may have to obtain an electronic-reader. This was a difficult decision for me to take as an avowed 'Luddite' I had railed against such electronic paraphernalia your years. I decided that I would use the electronic reader for only light fiction books where intensely focused reading and note-taking are not the need of the hour. I searched studiously trying to find an electronic reader that met my needs and budget. During this time I remembered that a close family member had died a number of years ago and had left behind a third generation Kindle. I went looking to find the unit. After finding the reader and trying to bring it back to life I realised that its battery had given up a long time ago. Since then a new battery has been procured and I can report that it is working well. As a side note the reader is so old it cannot purchase books from the Kindle store. I am not intending to buy from the Kindle store so that is not a problem. What I am intending to use the reader for is to read fiction books that are in the public domain. In this manner I hope to reduce some of the space that books take up in my home. If you have the same problem how have you resolved the situation?
Evening all
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.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
