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🇺🇸 History Of Automobiles Ford Motor Co. Documentary "The American Road" Henry Ford Model T MD40540 https://youtu.be/m4Xt_hF0_20 #Video #Documentary #History #Automobiles #Ford #Motor #Car #Cars #American #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #C20th #20thCentury #Technology #Tech
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In certain dialects of Old English, there were two ways to express 'his' and 'her'.
Beside 'his' and 'hire', there was 'sīn' (pronounced ‘seen’), but this pronoun was reflexive: it could only refer to the subject of the sentence.
My new infographic tells you the whole story.
On my Patreon, everyone – including free members – can read a detailed explanation (1200 words) of this system. If you subscribe to tier 2, you can listen to the reconstructed pronunciation of all historic words.
Earlier this morning I logged into #Twitter / #X. After spending a few minutes on different timelines, I was grateful for #Mastodon and it's #contentwarnings. The #images that some accounts were posting without any forewarning made my stomach churn.
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AI tools are getting better at cloning people's voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-yourself-ai-scam-calls-detect/
"Rereading the sources surveyed by Green and Fancy, we have found no evidence in the various texts that would tie the various epidemics/pandemics in Iraq, Syria, and Egypt to plague, supposedly brought unintentionally by the advancing Mongol army that besieged Baghdad in early 1258."
Brack, J., Biran, M. and Amitai, R. (2024) ‘Plague and the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A reevaluation of the sources’, Medical History, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2023.38. #OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Medicine #BlackDeath #Plague #Epidemic #Pandemic #Mongols #Ilkhanate #Baghdad #MiddleEast #Historiography #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
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🇬🇧 I needed to laugh earlier this evening so I watched a couple of Al Murray videos. I can report they had the desired effect.
#StandUp #Comedy #PubLandlord #AlMurray #Comedian #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom
🇬🇧 "Name a country... We have defeated them." https://youtu.be/_x2ovlPr2IE #Video #StandUp #Comedy #PubLandlord #AlMurray #Comedian #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom
🇬🇧 "The Pub Landlord reveals why we are called 'Great' Britain. Recorded live at the Edinburgh Festival." https://youtu.be/W5Gp2u4Q3BQ #Video #StandUp #Comedy #PubLandlord #AlMurray #Comedian #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom
🇬🇧 Teaching an idiot basic maths | Blackadder - BBC https://youtu.be/g4IQjUpTNVU #Video #Comedy #Maths #Math #Mathematics
#Blackadder #BBC #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Television #TV #Sitcom #Teaching #RowanAtkinson #TonyRobinson
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#History #Math
Papers that #debunk common myths in the history of #mathematics
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/26613/papers-that-debunk-common-myths-in-the-history-of-mathematicsThe French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change
"Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals"
#News #CharlesDarwin #Evolution #Biology #France 🇫🇷 #Science #STEM #History #Climate #ClimateChange @science @biology @evolution
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Georges_Louis_Leclerc_graaf_de_Buffon,_RP-P-OB-48.865.jpg
"Why is it that SDO and RWA are bound together at the genetic level not only with policy attitudes, but also with two of the most relevant Big Five personality traits, agreeableness and openness to experience? We conjecture that the underlying reason for these patterns of results may be that the human selective context of resource competition likely affected fundamental personality variation (especially trait Openness), but also independent traits designed to deal with problems of hierarchy-navigation (RWA/SDO), and their downstream political correlates."
Kleppesto, T. H., Czajkowski, N. O., Sheehy-Skeffington, J., Vassend, O., Roysamb, E., Eftedal, N. H., Kunst, J. R., Ystrom, E., & Thomsen, L. (2024). The genetic underpinnings of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality. Journal of Personality, 00, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12921 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #RightWing #Authoritarianism #Behavior #Genetics #Personality #Psychology #PoliticalScience #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology @politicalscience
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#TIL: Today I learned that boletus edulis (English: cep or porcino, German: Steinpilze) is called eekhoorntjesbrood - so "squirrel bread" in Dutch.
"Through the burning of fossil fuels, animal agriculture and deforestation, the world’s CO2 levels are now more than 50% higher than they were before the era of mass industrialization. Methane, which comes from sources including oil and gas drilling and livestock, has surged even more dramatically in recent years, Noaa said, and now has atmospheric concentrations 160% larger than in pre-industrial times." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/record-highs-heat-trapping-gases-climate-crisis #News #FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #STEM @climatechange @science
#Image attribution: Demokraatti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kasvihuonekaasua.JPG
"Enjoy these 10 Anglo-Saxon words that I think we should bring back." https://youtu.be/G0hV2q8aw6M #Video #OldEnglish #AngloSaxon #Language #Languages #Word #Words
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Materials & Methods:
"The experiment that brought sleep science to global attention was one that Kleitman performed on himself. In 1938 he and a graduate student, Bruce Richardson, descended into the depths of the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, where they spent the next 32 days a quarter of a mile from the nearest chink of daylight, maintaining an artificial sleep-wake cycle of 28 hours. They kept time with alarm clocks, took their temperatures regularly, grew beards, stashed chamber pots in the cave recesses, ate fried chicken and smoked cigarettes, all on a rigid timetable of nineteen hours awake followed by nine asleep."
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 containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
