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.
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Joined Nov 2022
🎥 **The Simplest Unsolved Ancient Problem**
"_Ancient Greek mathematicians wrestled for centuries with a seemingly pointless problem that led them to rich mathematical discoveries._"
🇺🇸 **Trillion-Dollar Interest Payments Are the New Norm**
"_As the national debt continues to climb toward record levels – totaling 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 – interest on the national debt has also risen significantly. Just five years ago, in FY 2020, net interest totaled $345 billion; in FY 2025, it totaled $970 billion – nearly three times as large._"
🔗 https://www.crfb.org/blogs/trillion-dollar-interest-payments-are-new-norm.
📚 **Are we falling out of love with nonfiction?**
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/17/are-we-falling-out-of-love-with-nonfiction.
**Social Media Detox and Youth Mental Health**
"_ A 1-week social media detox intervention significantly reduced symptoms of anxiety by 16.1%, depression by 24.8%, and insomnia by 14.5%._"
Calvert E, Cipriani M, Dwyer B, et al. Social Media Detox and Youth Mental Health. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(11):e2545245. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.45245.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #SocialMedia #Health #MentalHealth #Medicine #Academia #Research
🖥️ **Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education**
"_Learning is not a problem to be solved; it’s a process to be undertaken. There are students who feel that they are being robbed of an educational experience, because AI has fundamentally shifted the culture of education._"
🔗 https://www.publicbooks.org/four-frictions-or-how-to-resist-ai-in-education/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning
📚 **The best of 2025**
"_The books that everyone was talking about this year_"
🇺🇸 **America’s $38 trillion national debt ‘exacerbates generational imbalances’ with Gen Z and millennials paying the price, warns think tank**
🔗 https://fortune.com/2025/12/16/us-national-debt-generationa-imbalances-research-think-tank/.
📚 **The Complete English Literature Reading List**
🔗 https://adamgagewalker.substack.com/p/the-complete-english-literature-reading.
**How to read a poem**
"_Ideally over a lifetime, says New Yorker’s Kevin Young_"
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/12/how-to-read-a-poem/.
🎥 **Modern Myths about the Age of Homer**
"_Archaeologist Bryan Burns surveys ancient finds from Troy and Mycenae and their connection to Homeric epics, addressing common misconceptions about the Late Bronze Age in scholarship and popular culture._"
🇨🇦 🇬🇧 **Linguistic experts urge Carney government to stop using British spellings**
"_Advocates say government should utilize (not 'utilise') Canadian English in official documents_"
🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/carney-criticized-for-british-spelling-9.7015702.
#Linguistics #English #Language #Spelling #Canada #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom
**Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century**
"_Here, using three global glacier models, we project a sharp rise in the number of glaciers disappearing worldwide, peaking between 2041 and 2055 with up to ~4,000 glaciers vanishing annually._"
Van Tricht, L., Zekollari, H., Huss, M. et al. Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02513-9.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Environment #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Glaciers #Academia
🇮🇹 **Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy**
"_The community shows closer genetic affinity to Early Bronze Age Sicilians than to contemporaneous populations from the Italian peninsula. However, unlike contemporary Sicilian individuals, they lack eastern genetic influences, suggesting distinct ancestral trajectories and interaction networks among Bronze Age populations._"
Fontani, F., Larocca, F., Cilli, E. et al. Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy. Commun Biol 8, 1766 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09194-2.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Demography #Science #Biology #Consanguinity #Genetics #History #BronzeAge #Italy #Academia
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The other wonders of the Ancient World
Beyond the canonical list of the Seven Wonders, throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, many lists were drawn up that included other equally impressive works.
https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/the-other-wonders-of-the-ancient
📚 📻 **Books We Love: NPR staff's top non-fiction picks of the year**
🗺️ **Is it time to redraw our maps?**
"_From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands_"
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/14/is-it-time-to-redraw-our-maps.
📺 **Youtube Alternatives**
I recently visited #Youtube on a smart #television and found the experience difficult. The #adverts which originally used to started at 5 seconds length and could be skipped have now become 60 seconds long and with no option to skip. Do you think that as a viewer having 1 minute long adverts that cannot be skipped enhances your viewing experience? As someone who wishes to ween himself off from #Youtube are there any credible alternatives?
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📚 🇺🇸 **Buy University Press Books This Holiday Season**
"_It’s so incredibly important to support these publishers. They are still, in large part, responsible for pushing fields of study like history and specifically the Civil War era into new and exciting directions._"
🔗 https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/buy-university-press-books-this-holiday
#USA #UnitedStates #History #Histodons #UniversityPress #Books #Bookstodon
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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