Six of the most famous telescopes in #history https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/famous-telescopes/ #Science #Astronomy #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/skyatnightmag/status/1660285314978689026
"Kozinsky and his team used the world’s 8th most powerful supercomputer, Perlmutter, to simulate the 44 million atoms involved in the protein shell of HIV." https://www.newscientist.com/article/2373022-watch-44-million-atoms-simulated-using-ai-and-a-supercomputer/ #Video #Simulation #AI #artificalintelligence #Science #Computer #hiv
Source: https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1660295233710465030
Desert Monoliths Reveal World’s Oldest Architectural Plans. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/science/ancient-architecture-desert-kites.html #Science #Jordan #SaudiArabia #Architecture #MiddleEast #History #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1659983410662711298
"The most valuable discovery made so far in Şapinuwa is a collection of over three thousand pieces of clay tablets from the second millennium BCE." https://turkisharchaeonews.net/site/%C5%9Fapinuwa #History #Archaeology #AsiaMinor #Asia #Hittites #Turkey #histodons #archaeodons @histodons @archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/turarchaeonews/status/1660178262201364487
"An international team of researchers tested what the software could manage by providing the generative AI program with challenging graduate-level mathematics questions......" https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/when-it-comes-to-advanced-math-chatgpt-is-no-star-student/ #Maths #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT @mathst @mathematics
Source: https://twitter.com/JenLucPiquant/status/1659989673949773826
"For many thousands of years, human beings have been creating towns and cities in which to live. Here are some of the first cities we ever built." https://www.thecollector.com/first-cities-human-civilization-oldest-cities/ #Archaeology #Ancient #History #histodons #archaeodons @histodons @archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/spwells/status/1660008056976183296
"Galen was the greatest physician of his era and was also a skilled surgeon and renowned philosopher. He was responsible for numerous advances in the fields of anatomy, physiology and therapeutics and led a truly remarkable life." https://www.medicalexamprep.co.uk/claudius-galen/ #History #Medicine #Philosophy #Science #histodons @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/MedicalExamPrep/status/1660208813767790595
"What I see happening is that ChatGPT can already do much of the grunt work and draft translations, lessening the burden on human experts." https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=58745 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Languages #Cuneiform #ChatGPt @linguistics
Source: https://twitter.com/LanguageLog/status/1660235873445875713
"In the two new tablets, however, the language in the left column was not the expected Sumerian but rather the never-before-seen Northwest Semitic language Amorite." https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/ancient-amorite-language-discovered/ #Cuneiform #Linguistics #Mesopotamia #History #Langauage #histodons @histodons @linguistics
Source: https://twitter.com/BibArch/status/1660073161688248320
"This ‘Northwest Passage’, the fabled northern route linking East with West, was not successfully navigated until 1906 by Roald Amundsen. Today we talk about the four centuries of exploration before then..." https://snr.org.uk/the-mariners-mirror-podcast/the-search-for-the-northwest-pasage/ #Maritime #History #Podcast #Europe #Arctic #Canada #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NauticalHistory/status/1659423640620875777
"It is frightening to think where all this might lead. If English is in such a bad state now, what will things be like in a generation’s time? We must surely act before it is too late." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/15/why-its-time-to-stop-worrying-about-the-decline-of-the-english-language #English #Language #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/lingdiscovery/status/1659659943866146855
"Barabási’s groundbreaking work reveals that new connections in our networks tend to form with already well-connected elements. Scale-free networks exist in various complex systems, such as cellular interactions and social networks." https://bigthink.com/the-well/decoding-our-world-graph-theory-networks/ #Video #Maths #Science #Data
Source: https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1659656770086641679
"They focus on the application of metrical study to literary criticism and manuscript studies, engaging with current debate and offering new perspectives on the crucial role of metre to Old English scholarship." https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58584 #OpenAccess #OA #Book #Medieval #bookstodon @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/ArcHumanities/status/1657847504828809217
"Prior to the period of the much-lauded modern “discovery” of 1 Enoch/Ethiopic Enoch, what was known of these and other Enochic writings?" https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37375274 #OpenAccess #OA #Medieval #MiddleAges #Religion #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/AnnetteYReed/status/1659661054232674305
The Mexican-American War ended 175 years ago: How did Mexico lose half its territory? https://english.elpais.com/usa/2023-05-19/the-mexican-american-war-ended-175-years-ago-how-did-mexico-lose-half-its-territory.html #History #Mexico #USA #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/elpaisinenglish/status/1659760852994596864
"Recognizing that rhetoric without more can be dangerous, Cicero’s solution was to place rhetoric within a larger framework of public activity, practical training, and moral wisdom. That was oratory." https://antigonejournal.com/2021/10/cicero-rhetoric/ #Rhetoric #Latin #Classics
Source: https://twitter.com/AntigoneJournal/status/1659500437505015808
"This tablet is particularly notable as it is one of the earliest known examples of writing in Latin by a woman." https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/ancient-history/vindolanda-tablets/ #Ancient #History #Roman #Britain #Latin #Classics #Writing #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1659555954889830402
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