Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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Joined Nov 2022
"Brits may mind their Ps and Qs, but they’ve completely overlooked their ñs and ßs. Linguist and epigraphist Philippa Steele spells out the surprising history behind our written languages." https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/443711-why-does-the-english-alphabet-have-26-letters #English #Languages #Linguistics #Alphabet #History #Writing #histodons #histodon @histodons @linguistics @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/crewsproject/status/1662154264372707336
"L' hemisphere meridional pour voir plus distinctement les terres australes". https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3220.ct009346/?loclr=twmap #Map #Cartography #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/LOCMaps/status/1661741408816857088
"Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra..., [between pages 41 and 42]". https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/db0cd870-667d-013a-bbd9-0242ac110003 #Map #Cartography #C17th #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NYPLMaps/status/1661750660088602625
"In recent decades, researchers have begun peering beneath book covers using noninvasive techniques to find medieval binding fragments and read what’s written on them." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/science/medieval-books-hidden-manuscripts.html #Books #Medieval #Science #bookstodon @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1661059061494824960
"No one knows where the city of Akkad was located, how it rose to prominence, or how, precisely, it fell; yet once it was the seat of the Akkadian Empire which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia." https://www.worldhistory.org/akkad/ #Ancient #History #Mesopotamia #histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/whencyclopedia/status/1660436584536178690
"Stuart was a slight, small man, a social misfit and heavy drinker. Yet he would go on to become perhaps the greatest explorer of the Australian interior in history." https://explorerspodcast.com/john-mcdouall-stuart/ #History #Australia #Podcast #Exploration #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @podcast
Source: https://twitter.com/explorerspod/status/1660675812608155654
"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
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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