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Joined Nov 2022
Listening to "Thirty years of proof: celebrating Andrew Wiles on the anniversary of Fermat's Last Theorem" at https://livingproof.buzzsprout.com/1992011/13087386 #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Podcast
"They walk us through just how banking and finance was done in the days before computers, telephones and even the telegraph." https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/this-is-how-finance-and-banking-worked-before-comp #books #bookstodon #podcast #history #histodon #histodons #economics #finance #C18th @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @economics
Source: https://twitter.com/PrincetonUPress/status/1671954205756588033
"One of the biggest certainties with an El Niño is that global temperature will ratchet up, as they always do during El Niño years, because the ocean releases exceptional amounts of heat into the atmosphere." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/el-nino-may-break-a-record-and-reshape-weather-around-the-globe/ #Climate #Science #ElNiño @science
Source: https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1671943252398800912
"When Thomas Jefferson ran for president, his opponents attacked him as an atheist. But was this true? What did Jefferson believe?" https://youtu.be/CXKc7MMB1uQ #video #history #histodon #histodons #USA #religion #christianity #bible @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/andrewmarkhenry/status/1671934702662434831
"this book is an invaluable companion to students and lecturers alike in exploring women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, medicine and culture." https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/211143 #OpenAccess #OA #history #histodon #histodons #science #bookstodon #books #book #maths #technology #medicine #culture @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/UCLpress/status/1671503733564358656
"Diogenes engaged in shocking behavior to demonstrate the contradictions, small-mindedness, and sheer absurdity of prevailing social conventions." https://bigthink.com/thinking/dangerous-ideas-diogenes-cynic/ #Books #History #Philosophy #bookstodon #histodon #histodons @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1663956921051643904
"The highly unusual find, thought to be the first time a literary quotation has been discovered on a Roman amphora.." https://theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/21/virgil-quote-found-on-fragment-of-roman-jar-unearthed-in-spain #Archaeology #Roman #Latin #Spain @archaeodons
Sousa da Mota, B., Rubinacci, S., Cruz Dávalos, D.I. et al. Imputation of ancient human genomes. Nat Commun 14, 3660 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39202-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Biology #Genetics #Archaeology #Population #Haplotypes #Science @archaeodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/MU_Peter/status/1671533825560592388
"He predicted that AI would soon be better at the “aggregation of information” than human journalists and said that only publishers who created “the best original content” – such as investigative journalism and original commentary – would survive." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/20/german-tabloid-bild-to-replace-range-of-editorial-jobs-with-ai #AI #Germany
"It’s the pinnacle of 400 years of science and gives the correct answer to hundreds of thousands of experiments." https://youtu.be/Unl1jXFnzgo #Video #Science #Physics @science
Source: https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1670863540423360520
"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
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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