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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.
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Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Thomas Willis (1621-1675) : Neurologist, Chemist, Physician
“Willis is not only credited to be the founder of neurology, but he is also seen as the father of comparative neuroanatomy, as his work, in particular Cerebri anatome and De anima brutorum, compare the human brain with that of other species in ‘search for specific human abilities in cognitive functions’ (Molnár, p. 334).”
#History #Science #STEM #HistSci #Anatomy #Neurology #Neuroanatomy #EarlyModern #C17th #17thCentury #Histodon #Histodons @science @earlymodern @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Thomas_Willis,_RP-P-1910-415.jpg
"A Bayesian analysis showed that participants had high expectations and performed descriptively better irrespective of the AI description when a sham-AI was present. Using cognitive modeling, we could trace this advantage back to participants gathering more information."
Agnes Mercedes Kloft, Robin Welsch, Thomas Kosch, and Steeven Villa. 2024. "AI enhances our performance, I have no doubt this one will do the same": The Placebo effect is robust to negative descriptions of AI. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 299, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642633
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Technology #Tech #Science #STEM #Placebo #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @technology
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Florence Nightingale was born #OTD in 1820.
Though best known as a nurse (maybe a reductive and gendered way of siloing her contributions) she did pioneering work applying statistics to public health and communicating her results with innovative data visualization.
Image: National Archives (UK)
Band of Brothers: the Jesuits
“Ignatius of Loyola’s movement begins modestly, but winds up having a global impact on education and philosophy.”
#Audio #Podcast #History #Philosophy #Jesuits #EarlyModern #Christianity #RomanCatholic #Education @earlymodern @philosophy
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Southern lights ignite the sky in geomagnetic glory – in pictures
“Aurora australis has proven to be the weekend’s must-see event, offering the most ‘extreme’ celestial display in two decades.”
#SouthernLights #Aurora #AuroraAustralis #Image #Images #Picture #Pictures
Why Nietzsche Misunderstood Dostoevsky
#Video length: 17 minutes 50 seconds.
Could Northern Lights appear over the UK again tonight?
#Video length: 1 minute 35 seconds.
The actors may differ; however, the play is usually the same.
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🇺🇸 How Christianity’s Decline Impacts White Christians’ Emotional and Attitudinal Response
“Racial resentment predicts Christian nationalism, Christian persecution beliefs, and White persecution beliefs. In other words, negative stereotypes about Black Americans are related to Christian nationalism and persecution beliefs. But while Whiteness and Christianity are undeniably intertwined among Whites, our experiment provides evidence that they cannot be conflated.”
#ChristianNationalism #Secularization #Politics #PoliticalScience #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Chrisitianity #Religion #Christians #Emotions @politicalscience
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🇺🇸 "Land Of Cotton - King Cotton's Slaves" 1936 Southern Tenant Sharecroppers Documentary XD49484
"This particular episode of the series takes an in depth look at the struggles of Black and white tenant sharecroppers and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in Arkansas during the New Deal Years."
#Video length: 8 minutes 25 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_o38AGSx6Q
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Arkansas #Documentary #Newsreel #NewDeal #Cotton #Sharecroppers #Farming #Farm #Farmers @histodon @histodons
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I’d like to read Marco Polo, but I’d really love an unabridged and annotated version. But are there any that aren’t over a hundred years old? I can find one from 1903, but I feel like scholarship has likely established a little more information since then.
But perhaps it’s not interesting enough for modern readers.
Anyone have a particular edition they recommend?
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"Mathematics must subdue the flights of our reason; they are the staff of the blind; no one can take a step without them; and to them and experience is due all that is certain in physics." – Voltaire (1694-1778)
#quote #mathematics #math #maths
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Again, last month was the warmest on record globally in the GISTEMPv4 dataset for the month of April... #ClimateChange
[(Preliminary) data/info: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/]
The History of Ions: Unveiling the Electric Charge
"Around 1830, Faraday posited the existence of charged particles within molecules that migrate between electrodes during electrolysis—an idea ahead of its time."
https://historyofsciences.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-history-of-ions-unveiling-electric.html
#History #Science #HistSci #STEM @science
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Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Why You Hate The Modern World | Kierkegaard's The Present Age
"Kierkegaard's "The Present Age" or "On The Present Age" is his attempt to make sense of the changing world of 19th century Denmark, and the dawn of what we would now call modernity. And In this brilliant piece Kierkegaard takes us through so many issues we now view as major and established - predicting them over 150 years ago. So here is his guide to why you hate the modern world."
#Video length: 23 minutes 48 seconds.
The thing that ruined English spelling
“In this video, let’s explore what the GVS was and why it screwed up English spelling forever.”
#Video length: 14 minutes 28 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmL6FClRC_s
#English #Language #Spelling #Linguistics #GreatVowelShift @linguistics
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Hmmm... I'm not calling for this article to be taken down or censored in any way, but i do want draw attention to some aspects of the article itself and some background on Palladium Magazine.
- I suspect many of the historical claims about population size and growth will not stand up to scrutiny. For example, to attribute such importance to demography in understanding the history of C19 France is absurdly simplistic. Natalism and criticism of the supposedly enervating influence of the Enlightenment have long been staples of the hard right in France; it doesn't follow that these points of view are of any value.
- The article does note with approval the migration of talented researchers into the USA, but it fails to note that any solution to a putative demographic crisis in the west should surely include encouraging immigration.
-That the article does not recommend such a measure beyond "brain draining" other countries is hardly surprising when we learn a little more about Palladium Magazine.
- The founding editor of the magazine is Jonah Bennett.
You can read more about this unsavory character here:
https://www.splinter.com/leaked-emails-show-how-white-nationalists-have-infiltra-1837681245
- Palladium Magazine is a publication of the American Governance Foundation, a thinktank funded by Peter Thiel. You can read more about his ultraright politics here:
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-enigma-of-peter-thiel
The article fits right in with the Thiel worldview.
🇺🇸 The Demographic Roots of American Power
“Few have truly come to terms with what the demographic collapse of the working-age populations of the developed world—where the great bulk of scientific discovery and innovation is concentrated—will mean for the future of humanity.”
https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/05/10/the-demographic-roots-of-american-power/
#Article #Demography #Demographics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
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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