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"Research on ancient genomes has moved way beyond population mixture into broader questions about how ancient people lived and interacted with their environments." https://johnhawks.net/weblog/the-top-10-discoveries-about-ancient-people-from-dna-in-2022/ #Ancient #DNA #Genetics #Science @science
Source: https://twitter.com/Qafzeh/status/1670847258886291456
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"Disenchantment with the West’s style of lending gave China the opportunity to become an aggressive creditor in countries like Argentina, Mongolia, Egypt and Suriname."
Why It Seems Everything We Know About Global Economy No Longer True; While World’s Eyes on Pandemic, War in Ukraine & China, Paths to Prosperity & Shared Interests Grow Murkier
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/business/economy/global-economy-us-china.html via NYT
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#Economy #Economics
Sebastian Brock: The Syriac Tradition and East -West Christian Ecumenism https://youtu.be/hH9MFta3WWU #YouTube #Video #Christianity #History #Religion #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Tom Grant (2023) Beowulfian Echoes in the Icelandic Ectors saga, English Studies, 104:1, 1-18, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2085913 #Europe #Languages
Alfred Hiatt (2022) The Map of Britain in British Library, MS Harley 1808, Imago Mundi, 74:2, 173-188, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2130518 #Map #Maps #Cartography #Britain #C15th #OpenAccess #OA #History #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Aleksi Huhta (2023) Fragile Connections: Finnish Settlers and U.S. Power in Cuba, c. 1904–1959, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 51:3, 534-554, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2023.2205692
#OpenAccess #OA #USA #History #Cuba #histodon #histodons
@histodon @histodons
In order to #write well one must have #read well. #bookstodon #book #writing #books #reading @bookstodon
What #book or #books are you #reading this #weekend? #bookstodon @bookstodon
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"Psychical science, as we here try to pursue it, is the embryo of something which in time may dominate the whole world of thought."
William Crookes was born #OTD in 1832. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube which was made in 1875. This was a foundational discovery that eventually changed the whole of chemistry and physics. via @Wikipedia
Books about or by William Crookes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5544
"He became the first to report the phenomenon of coupled oscillation in two pendulum clocks (which he invented) in his bedroom while recovering from an illness in 1665." https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201706/history.cfm #History #Science #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1669812115920568320
Nall, J., Taub, L., & Willmoth, F. (Eds.). (2019). The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108633628 #History #Science #Technology #Medicine #histodon #histodons #openaccess #oa #books #bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @science
"Archaeologists in Iceland have found a sandstone carved with a Viking ship that may be the oldest picture ever found in the country." https://www.icelandreview.com/culture/stone-carved-with-viking-ship-may-be-oldest-picture-ever-found-in-iceland/ #Archaeology #History #Iceland #Vikings #archaeodons #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
@archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/ThomasSmaberg/status/1669449881151209475
"By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east in the last thirty years." https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2023/06/16/humans-are-pumping-so-much-water-out-of-the-ground-that-earths-tilt-is-changing/ #Earth #Science @science
Source: https://twitter.com/ForbesScience/status/1669713983366987778
CUMMINGS, V., & FOWLER, C. (2023). Materialising Descent: Lineage Formation and Transformation in Early Neolithic Southern Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2023.2 #Ancient #DNA #History #Archaeology #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Britain #histodon #histodons #archaeodons @histodon @histodons @science @archaeodons
"..ancient Greek speakers were multicultural and often multilingual, and those factors had a significant effect on the Greek language – but many generations of Greek speakers found that fact embarrassing and tried to hide it, often successfully." https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/06/how-did-ancient-greek-speakers-use-latin/ #Ancient #Greek #Latin #Classics
Source: https://twitter.com/CambUP_Classics/status/1669707118604177409
Modern calendar and continued fractions. https://math.temple.edu/~yury/calendar/calendar.pdf #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #pdf @mathematics
Source: https://twitter.com/snezanalawrence/status/1669268600568401925
"Much of the modern physical description of electrical forces comes from careful experiments done by the French scientist Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806)." https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201606/physicshistory.cfm #History #Science #Physics #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @science @physics
Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1669374285939367937
About the Philosopher Plato: Interview with Robin Waterfield. https://youtu.be/BD8-OG62h-c #philosophy #video #books #bookstodon @philosophy @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/OUPPhilosophy/status/1669015621068259329
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.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
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Joined Nov 2022
