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🇩🇪 🇵🇱 **Germany will return Teutonic archives looted in WWII to Poland, media reports**
"_The archives, seized by Nazi forces as part of a broad cultural plunder, contain manuscripts and documents tied to the medieval Teutonic Order of warrior monks—materials invaluable to understanding the order’s expansion, its conflicts with Poland and Lithuania, and the formation of regional borders._"
🔗 https://tvpworld.com/90298141/germany-to-return-medieval-teutonic-documents-stolen-in-wwii-report.
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Is America Heading for a Debt Crisis? Look Abroad for Answers
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/uk-budget-debate-us-debt-lessons-38bc52e3?st=SxRgcd
**UC San Diego Review of Senate-Administration Workgroup Report on Admissions**
"_Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level increased nearly thirtyfold; moreover, 70% of those students fall below middle school levels, reaching roughly one in twelve members of the entering cohort._"
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Today in Labor History November 29, 1781: The crew of the British slave ship Zong slaughtered over 130 enslaved Africans. According to the crew, the ship ran low on drinking water after several navigational blunders. Consequently, they threw the insured slaves overboard. However, when the insurers refused to pay, the slavers sued. On appeal, the judges, ruled against the slave trading syndicate, due to evidence that the captain and crew were at fault. Following the first trial, a freed man, Olaudah Equiano, brought news of the massacre to the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp, who fought unsuccessfully to have the ship's crew prosecuted for murder. This did increase publicity, stimulating the abolitionist movement. The event led to the passage of the Slave Trade Act 1788, Britain’s first law regulating the slave trade. And in 1791, Parliament prohibited insurance companies from reimbursing ship owners when enslaved Africans were murdered by being thrown overboard.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #abolition #massacre #racism #BlackMastadon
🖥️ **Bosses think AI will boost productivity — but it's actually deskilling workers, a professor says**
_"It's one thing for a senior coder to use AI," she said. "But the junior people are useless because they cannot help themselves from using it."_
_Because they lean on AI from day one, Berg said, they never build the foundational knowledge required to understand what the AI is doing — let alone verify or correct it._
🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are-deskilling-workers-philosophy-professor-2025-11.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Careers #Jobs #Productivity #Deskilling
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**How the first Bible to include a map helped spread the idea of countries with borders**
**Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago**
📚 **Leonardo's Library: The World of a Renaissance Reader**
"_The exhibition draws on Stanford’s Special Collections and the collections of the David Rumsey Map Center and the Lane Medical Library to reveal the authors and texts that shaped Leonardo’s world and influenced his ideas, reading habits, and understanding of books in the age of Gutenberg._"
📚 **Why is BookTok so obsessed with reading goals?**
"_Not only can many people not afford to purchase hundreds of books a year (or a Kindle to do so on) but if you are not a full-time BookTok influencer you likely spend most of your day at school or work, and therefore would not have the time in the day to read so much even if you wanted to._"
🔗 https://nouse.co.uk/articles/2025/11/28/why-is-booktok-so-obsessed-with-reading-goals.
#Reading #Books #SocialMedia #BookTok #Booktube
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💻 🖋️ **These professors say they’re part of a growing movement banning laptops from the classroom**
_“I read the literature on it and it really showed that students learn better when they’re taking notes rather than trying to type as fast as they can verbatim what you say,” said Amy Gutmann, Penn president emerita, who is co-teaching a class at the Annenberg School for Communication this fall._
🔗 https://www.inquirer.com/education/professors-college-laptop-ban-temple-upenn-20251126.html.
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Worth reading today:
“How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics
From xenophobia to conspiracy theories, the Know Nothing party launched a nativist movement whose effects are still felt today”
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Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/large-language-models-willnever-be-intelligent?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster
https://futurism.com/future-society/south-korea-ai-textbook?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Afternoon all. It is Friday and the weekend starts tonight.
**Our devices work for Big Tech, not for us**
🔗 https://timharford.com/2025/11/our-devices-work-for-big-tech-not-for-us/.
🖥️ **Has the bailout of generative AI already begun?**
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/has-the-bailout-of-generative-ai.
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BBC Inside Science - Why aren’t gene therapies more common? - BBC Sounds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct8txm?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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**Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life**
"_Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana will digitise, map and analyse the records which are here at Kew and allow researchers to examine how enslaved people used the courts to make complaints relating to family life, work, health, violence, and a host of other issues._"
🔗 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/project-to-bring-voices-of-enslaved-people-to-life/
🧬 **Ancient DNA from Shimao city records kinship practices in Neolithic China**
"_These findings reveal a predominantly patrilineal descent structure across Shimao communities, and possibly sex-specific sacrificial rituals. We also characterize the population history, revealing that Shimao culture-related populations originated mostly from a Yangshao culture-related population present at least 1,000 years earlier, and the lasting inflow of Yumin-related populations from Inner Mongolia did not interrupt regional genetic continuity._"
Chen, Z., Gardner, J.D., Sun, Z. et al. Ancient DNA from Shimao city records kinship practices in Neolithic China. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09799-x.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Neolithic #China #Academia
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