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The start of a new Renaissance Mathematicus series

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/07/05/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-i/

#OTD in 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his magnum opus, the Principia — one of the most important works in the history of science.

It was in the Principia, or the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, that Newton first set out in mathematical terms the principles of force, time and motion, and revolutionized methods of scientific investigation. via @iaeaorg

Principia mathematica (3 vols) by Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell is being proofed by @DProofreaders.

#books #science

The oldest humans identified as riders (so far). #bioanthropology #horse #archaeology #openaccess

The authors report five Yamnaya individuals well-dated to 3021 to 2501 calibrated BCE from kurgans in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, displaying changes in bone morphology and distinct pathologies associated with horseback riding.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade2451

Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI
https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486

Reading between the Gridlines

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2023/06/reading-between-the-gridlines/

A cartographer is using maps to fight climate change. She creates interactive visualizations that show the impacts of rising sea levels, extreme weather, and carbon emissions on different regions. Her maps aim to raise awareness, inspire action, and inform decision-making. #maps #climatechange #visualization https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/22/1074262/cartographer-fights-climate-change/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FArchetypes

Another #Mastotip for this megathread of tips for people new to #Mastodon from #Twitter. I was just introduced to Followgraph, which lets you plug your profile in and graph out who your follow's are following, so you can possibly find more interesting accounts to follow! https://followgraph.vercel.app
H/T: @jfkimmes

#Twittermigration #Welcome #Twitterexodus

#OTD 4 July 1753 Jean-Pierre Blanchard was born. He became a pioneer in ballooning, becoming the first to cross the English Channel in a balloon on 7 January 1785.

Interesting: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died within five hours of each other #onthisday in 1826, 50 years to the day after the approval of the Declaration of Independence.

"On July 4, 1826, former Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who were once fellow Patriots and then adversaries, die on the same day within five hours of each other."

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/two-founding-fathers-die-hours-apart-july-4-1826-224943

What makes South Korea’s fertility rate decline more astonishing is the relatively short period in which it has occurred.

And now South Korea is the only country in the world to register a fertility rate of less than one child per woman, although others – Ukraine, China and Spain – are close.

https://theconversation.com/south-korea-has-the-lowest-fertility-rate-in-the-world-and-that-doesnt-bode-well-for-its-economy-207107

#WorldNews #Economy #Demography #Asia #SouthKorea

We're noticing a lot of movement to Mastodon. To get you started, here's a list of #OpenScience folks who are already on Mastodon 🐘 https://germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon-OpenScience/

Sometimes, words were saved from death because they were borrowed.

The descendants of Proto-Germanic *uzgōlīn (pride) became extinct in Germanic, but borrowings live on in Romance: e.g. French 'orgueil' and Italian 'orgoglio'.

Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (conflict) was even brought back to Germanic thanks to Old French borrowing 'haste'. Here's how:

"A straight line can be readily drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the Cepheid variables and their periods."

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born #OTD in 1868. Her discovery of how to effectively measure vast distances to remote galaxies led to a shift in the understanding of the nature of the universe. via @Wikipedia

#books #science #astronomy