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Genghis Khan vs the Shaman Teb Tengri
"In the early days of the Mongol Empire, Chinggis Khan relied on the support of an influential shaman named Teb Tengri. But the Shaman soon became a threat, undermining the rule of Chinggisids and seeking to turn Chinggis Khan's family against each other."
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #Mongols #GenghisKhan #Asia @histodon @histodons
The King's English : Fowler, H. W. (Henry Watson), 1858-1933: https://archive.org/details/kingsenglish00fowliala ~via @internetarchive
#Read #Reading #NonFiction #English #Language #Grammar #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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@bibliolater @histodon @histodons The idea that "the survival of the fittest had been distorted by social welfare policies" is a manifestation of the mind-boggling supreme arrogance which asserts that mankind is some how "above" or "beyond" or "outside" nature and not itself subject to the laws of nature.
If we develop "social welfare policies" that's just the laws of nature in operation. Like everything else we do.
How Cambridge bred eugenics
"The term “eugenics” (from the Greek for ‘well born’) was birthed here in Cambridge by Trinity’s own Francis Galton in 1883. Galton was inspired by his cousin Charles Darwin and adapted the idea of natural selection to presuppose that the survival of the fittest had been distorted by social welfare policies."
https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/27401
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Eugenics #Race #Racism #ScientificRacism #Cambridge #University #Academia @histodon @histodons
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Stop trying to make language ‘funner.’ Grammar rules exist for a reason. https://wapo.st/49Wpllv
🇩🇪 A phrase that I have not heard in a long time and for some the only German they ever learnt in their lives:
Vorsprung durch Technik
#Advertising #Germany #German #Manufacturing #Automobile #Automobiles #Car #Cars
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"There is also a tendency to take over American slang phrases without understanding their meaning. For example, the expression ‘barking up the wrong tree’ is fairly widely used, but inquiry shows that most people don’t know its origin nor exactly what it means."
https://orwell.substack.com/p/love-lies-sleeping
#English #Language #Foreign #Languages #Orwell #Vocabulary #Word #Words #Idiom #Idioms #Expression #Expressions
Nearly one in five cars sold in 2023 was electric
"There are significant differences in adoption worldwide. This chart shows new sales shares by country. In Norway, more than 90% of new cars were electric. In China, it was almost 40%; in the European Union, 22%; and in the United States, just 10%."
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/nearly-one-in-five-cars-sold-in-2023-was-electric
#Data #ElectricCars #EV #Norway #China #EU #US #USA #UnitedStates
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Do you have an account on #photography platform #EyeEm?
If so, you should know that it plans to sell your photos to train #AI models.
And the only way to opt out is to delete the photos. A long and tedious process, which questions the honesty of EyeEm's approach.
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The word 'bairn' (child), which is used in Scots, Northern and Scottish English, is closely related to 'born' and 'to bear'.
These words all come from a root meaning "to carry".
When a baby is born it's been carried to term.
The infant is then carried around.
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In manipulating definitions and frames of reference sophists create the space needed to ply their fallacious arguments.
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Percentage population change between 1990 and 2020 in European countries
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/616185817494421504/percentage-population-change-between-1990-and-2020
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#OpenAccess fees have given >$5b USD 💸 of revenue since 2015 to the biggest for-profit publishers. Also a massive underestimation given the non-serious "conservative" 500k for #MDPI, who easily received >$300m revenue in 2023 alone (285k papers in 2023!). Over 8 years, easily tack on an extr $1b+ USD for #MDPI.
Non-profit funders should just host their own journals at this point. 🫠
#SciPub #ScientificPublishing #AcademicChatter
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lēac-weard, m.n: gardener. (LAY-ock-WEH-ard / ˈleːak-ˌwɛard)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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While many aspects of #India ’s growth story are well-known, navigating a vast country experiencing major demographic, economic and societal shifts is not without complexities, chart @GoldmanSachs
"In most work in the history of science, the approach is to show how a particular event or outcome was the result of various social and intellectual influences. Bayesian history of science, on the other hand, focuses on the lines of evidence relevant to the historical development to see if the direction taken by an individual or group of scientists was consistent or inconsistent with the evidence at hand."
Henry Small; Bayesian history of science: The case of Watson and Crick and the structure of DNA. Quantitative Science Studies 2023; 4 (1): 209–228. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00233
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Science #HistSci #Discovery #DNA #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
Not a bot just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
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