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"Particularly in low-income and middle-income populations, the shift away from a traditional diet to an industrialised one has been abrupt and is associated with considerable increases in nutrition-related non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes." https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01301-6/fulltext #OpenAccess #Science #Medicine #Diabetes #Research
Source: https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1673300833943928834
"On some p-differential graded link homologies". https://doi.org/10.1017/fmp.2022.19 #OpenAccess #OA #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Algebra
Source: https://twitter.com/cambUP_maths/status/1673285242851868675
"Alexandria pioneered the concept of a universal library, seeking to compile all of the known knowledge in the world in one place." https://www.humanprogress.org/centers-of-progress-pt-8/ #History #Library #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/HumanProgress/status/1673356701624311809
"...higher inflation so far mainly reflects higher profits and import prices, with profits accounting for 45 percent of price rises since the start of 2022." https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/06/26/europes-inflation-outlook-depends-on-how-corporate-profits-absorb-wage-gains #Inflation #Eurozone #Europe #Economics #Finance @economics
Source: https://twitter.com/IMFNews/status/1673287590865412096
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About fifty years after Smith's seminal map for the Geology of Britain and we see numerous 19th century British publishers including some version of it into their atlases, such as this from c. 1860 by Bradbury - Agnew. Hand colored to distinguish the strata.
Still a relatively young science at the time, but clearly making an impact, and unveiling an important key to understanding our world.
#maps #map #geology #history #dataviz #datascience #science #sciencehistory
"A film exploring the development of the quill pen, from its earliest known depiction to the birth of the fountain pen." https://youtu.be/36h1vt-9sss #YouTube #video #history #writing #pens #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
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A little thread this week on how the Romans mapped their empire.
You can read the whole thing here:
Why do prime numbers make these spirals? | Dirichlet’s theorem, pi approximations, and more https://youtu.be/EK32jo7i5LQ #YouTube #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Video
"Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues." https://nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8 #Neuroscience #Philosophy #Science @philosophy @science
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In the Early Middle Ages, the ancestor of French borrowed many words from Old Frankish, a Germanic language spoken by the elite of the Frankish Empire.
When this elite adopted the Romance language, it got their name: 'françois', now 'français': French.
Here are some of the borrowings:
"The meaning of probability; Kolmogorov’s axioms; Random variables; Introduction to stochastic processes; Markov chains; Poisson process; Wiener process. Important distributions; These notes contain further pointers to the literature.." https://www.lem.sssup.it/phd/documents/probpisanew.pdf #Maths #Probability #Economics #PDF @economics
Source: https://twitter.com/FriedrichHayek/status/1672662927084748801
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I am a #writer who helps #writers #write #memoir, #fiction, #NonFiction, #scripts, #comedy. Currently working on #HistoricalFiction set during the #AmericanRevolution.
The image of the hand holding a printer's composing stick is from Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan’s Eleventh Book of Specimens of Printing Types, pub. 1885 https://archive.org/details/cu31924032183760/page/n963/mode/2up
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#OTD 24 June 843 Vikings sack Nantes. Learn how Charles the Bald fought the Vikings in our episode on his reign https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/59-charlemagne-junior/
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#OTD 24 June 1604 Samuel de Champlain becomes the first European to discover the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present-day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
'Peter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)' by Scholarly Communication https://megaphone.link/NSR2033542291 #books #podcast #bookstodon @bookstodon
Kelsey E Witt and others, The Impact of Modern Admixture on Archaic Human Ancestry in Human Populations, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2023, evad066, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad066 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Biology #ResearchPapers #Article @science
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Today in 1497, John Cabot lands on the Atlantic Coast of North America, claiming it for England.
He arrives with one ship called Matthew of Bristol, with 18-20 men on board.
The location of the landing is disputed & may have been in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia or Maine.
#canada #history #novascotia #newfoundland #exploration #histodon #histodons
"Scholars have assumed that peace was broadly welcomed, especially among the English mercantile community. Yet many merchants had made vast fortunes from the war, through privateering or opening trade routes with Spain’s imperial territories."
Source: Alexandra Gajda, War, peace and commerce and the Treaty of London (1604), Historical Research, 2023;, htad011, https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htad011 #History #England #Spain #C17th #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
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