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"Free and easy to use, the platform — a powerful kind of database that maps relationships — helps users find clear pathways through the collections and uncover links between objects that might otherwise seem unconnected," https://news.yale.edu/2023/06/01/17-million-reasons-love-lux-yales-new-collections-search-tool #library #science #technology #arts
Source: https://twitter.com/BeineckeLibrary/status/1665407567684591619
"Study takes a step toward cell or gene therapy for cystic fibrosis". https://hms.harvard.edu/news/researchers-make-ionocytes-mysterious-lung-cells-dish #Science #Biology #Therapy #Medicine @science
Source: https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1665399271808552961
"I think the magic of our capsule is that it is going to transform how people think about the gut microbiota's relationship to diseases," https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2023/05/15/scientists-get-a-new-view-of-digestion/ #Science #Microbiology #Biology #Technology @science
Source: https://twitter.com/Stanford/status/1665395702736863237
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What is the sine of 1 degree?
Learn about this unusual expression here: https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/awards/college.math.j.47.5.322.pdf
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The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded #OTD in 1917:
Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe).
Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days.
Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World. via @wikipedia
"He did important work on series and in optics and was a strong supporter of Newton in his dispute with Leibniz." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gregory_David/ #history #maths #math #mathematics #mathsodon #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/mathshistory/status/1664925647548841984
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"I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible."
Mary Henrietta Kingsley died #OTD in 1900.
She was an English ethnographer, scientific writer, and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of both African cultures and British colonialism in Africa. via @wikipedia
Books by Mary Kingsley at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1894
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The Smithsonian has made over 4 MILLION images open source! You can create, copy, distribute, etc. This is amazing!
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The book on Germanic syntax was too long for you? Well maybe you try my overview article on Generative approaches to #Germanic languages. A draft is ready. Comments are welcome:
https://hpsg.hu-berlin.de/~stefan/Pub/germanic-generative.html
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James Hutton, founder of modern geology, was born #OTD in 1726. He proposed Uniformitarianism, the idea that geological processes occurring now are the same ones that occurred in the past, unseating catastrophism and implying the Earth is much older than Biblical accounts.
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Does Science Need History? Lorraine Daston in conversation with Samuel Loncar, editor of Marginala - an interesting wide-ranging discussion about science, culture, education, publishing, disciplines, ‘truth’ and more.
Link to the pdf that contains both parts of the published discussion: https://themarginaliareview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Daston_Loncar_Marginalia.pdf
#histsci #histSTM #HistoryOfScience #philsci #hps #sts #science #history
"Some of the styles found in the book include gothic textura, round gothic, round humanistic, as well as the unusual inclusion of letters and texts from Greek and Hebrew script." https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/16th-century-pattern-book-for-scribes #Writing #Book #C16th #Images #Mauscripts
Source: https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1664357848552206336
The origin of the phrase 'red herring'. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/562812/where-did-phrase-red-herring-originate #Words #English #Language
Source: https://twitter.com/Smart_Translate/status/1664346073865895936
"First edition of one of the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism ever published." https://www.raptisrarebooks.com/product/the-road-to-serfdom-friedrich-a-hayek-first-edition-signed-1944-karl-popper/ #book #economics #philosophy #bookstodon @bookstodon @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf/status/1664341379525255174
"Such geodynamic models could help highlight diamond-filled areas and the locations of future kimberlite eruptions...." https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a43841348/supercomputers-reveal-earth-diamond-engine/ #Earth #Science #Diamond #Mining
Source: https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1664288400545923073
"...even state-of-the-art models still produce logical mistakes, often called hallucinations. Mitigating hallucinations is a critical step towards building aligned AGI." https://openai.com/research/improving-mathematical-reasoning-with-process-supervision #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Maths #Logic
Source: https://twitter.com/AlexKontorovich/status/1664272620370694145
"Stop funding millions to “improving teaching of maths”, when it’s the wrong subject, whilst failing to fund a fundamentally new computer-based curriculum, one to achieve computational literacy for all." https://www.conradwolfram.com/writings/game-over-for-maths-a-level #maths #education #mathematics #math #chatgpt #ai #artificialintelligence
Source: https://twitter.com/stevenstrogatz/status/1664271388650389505
Scientist of the Day - Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/anaxagoras-of-clazomenae #History #Science #Philosophy #histodon #histodons
@histodon @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/bhgross144/status/1664267627345379329
Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early #medieval #Scotland reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early #medieval and the modern people of the #UK https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010360 #Genetics #Genomics #OpenAccess #OA #Science
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph 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.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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