Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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<strong>First English settlers in North America ate dogs to survive</strong>
"Archaeologists excavated about 181 canine bones in Jamestown – representing at least 16 dogs that lived between 1607 and 1617 AD.
The dog remains showed evidence of bone modifications “consistent with human skinning, skeletal disarticulation, and meat removal” – meaning they were consumed by the colonists."
#History #Histodon #Histodons #America #C17th #17thCentury #EarlyModern #England #English #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Jamestown @archaeodons @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
<strong>Hidden gold earring reveals forgotten episode of Carthage-Rome war</strong>
"The jewelry piece was discovered inside a ruined building in the middle of the Pyrenees. The building is believed to have been part of a devastating fire that burned the settlement to the ground.
The destruction was dated around the end of the third century BCE, the moment where the Pyrenees were involved in the Second Punic War and the passage of Hannibal’s troops,”
https://www.mining.com/hidden-gold-earring-reveals-forgotten-episode-of-carthage-rome-war/
#News #History #Histodon #Histodons #Europe #Gold #Carthage #Rome #Pyrenees @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannibal_Before_the_Senate_in_Carthage_MET_DP837409.jpg
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#PhysicsFactlet
The human eyes have "only" 3 different colour receptors, so multiple spectra can be perceived as the same colour.
(And this without considering all the ways the signal is processed before you actually "see" it.)
#Optics #Colour #Color #Vision
<strong>The Reception of the Marduk Prophecy in Seventh-Century B.C. Nineveh</strong>
"_This article discusses how the Marduk Prophecy was read and re-interpreted in Nineveh at that time. Between the Marduk Prophecy and the royal literature during the reign of Ashurbanipal, the following common themes can be recognized: (1) reconstruction of the Babylonian temples, above all Esagil; (2) conquest of Elam; and (3) fulfillment of divine prophecies. On the basis of these, the author proposes that in the seventh-century Nineveh the Marduk Prophecy was regarded as an authentic prophecy predicting the achievements of Ashurbanipal, and that this is the main reason why this text was read at his court._"
Takuma SUGIE, The Reception of the Marduk Prophecy in Seventh-Century B.C. Nineveh, Orient, 2014, Volume 49, Pages 107-113, Released on J-STAGE April 03, 2017, Online ISSN 1884-1392, Print ISSN 0473-3851, https://doi.org/10.5356/orient.49.107.
#FreeAccess #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Antiquity #Antiquidons #Orient #MiddleEast #NearEast #Marduk #Nebuchadnezzar #Ashurbanipal #Nineveh #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @antiquidons
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(2/2) It covers the following topics:
✅ Factorial ANOVA
✅ Mixed effect ANOVA
✅ Mixed effect with random slopes
✅ Logistic regression
✅ ANCOVA
✅ One-way ANOVA
✅ Odds ratio vs relative risk
✅ Correlation coefficient vs slope
✅ Sampling
Great use case of Shiny apps 👇🏼
https://sites.google.com/view/ben-prytherch-shiny-apps/shiny-apps
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(1/2) Shiny Apps for demystifying statistical models and methods 🚀
This is a cool website that explains different statistical concepts with the use of interactive Shiny Apps. Ben Prytherch made this website from the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University.
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“I have been teaching in small liberal arts colleges for over 15 years now, and in the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch. For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation… Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.“ #literacy #education #LanguageArts
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Japan discovers the Jevons paradox. Over the 20th century, rising energy efficiency was met with ... rising energy consumption.
Earlier this evening my memory took me back to my teenage years when I would listen to the BBC's 'Letter from America' by Alistair Cooke on the wireless. Alistair's voice was so distinctive it left a lasting impression on me, so much so that I still remember it decades later.
@histodon @histodons At some point along the line is it not always about #oil?
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@bibliolater @bookstodon 10 pages (or other reasonable chunk if it’s extremely dense) per day. just do it
(otoh, that has not helped me finish Fathers and Crows or Life: A User’s Manual …)
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@bibliolater @bookstodon I set aside ten minutes or so at least once a day and tell myself I'm going to just read one page. I almost always find a way to reconnect with the text.
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If I don't have to *physically* read it, I try to find another way to absorb the content (audio version, summary, podcast about it).
If I really must read it, I try to make it as easy as possible - good light, comfy chair, low distractions etc.
@bookstodon
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Guess depends on context. If I have to read it (for work or otherwise), then tough luck. If it is generally interesting or valuable for me, I try to push through. If it’s just pastime, I might give honest attempt, or just pick something else. I won’t read all the books anyway, if it doesn’t excite me then it’s not worth it.
<strong>New sources for Sennacherib's first campaign </strong>
"_The article presents an edition, based on manuscripts from Nineveh, Ashur, and Tarbisu, of Sennacherib's earliest accounts of its first campaign, waged against Marduk-aplu-iddina and his southern Babylonian allies in 704-702 BCE. It provides an overview of the Aramean tribes and Chaldean towns attacked by the Assyrian troops, and a discussion of many have been the author of the inscriptions hat celebrate the campaign._"
Frahm, E. (2016) «New sources for Sennacherib’s first campaign», ISIMU, 6, pp. 129–164. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.15366/isimu2003.6.008.
#Research #DOI #Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #MiddleEast #Asia #Assyria #Babylon #Babylonia #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
What do you do when you have reached a 'reading block'? I have a small primer to read and have no motivation whatsoever to complete it. I must add that I have also just finished a seven hundred odd page philosophy book.
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Tip #Tips #Reading #Read #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🇯🇵 🇺🇸 <strong>The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor</strong>
"_Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese attack the USA? - The answer is oil._"
#Video length: thirteen minutes and fifty one seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so4v_2zq35k
#History #Histodon #Histodons #WW2 #Empire #Imperialism #Oil #Japan #Japanese #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #American #Asia #Pacific #PearlHarbor @histodon @histodons
<strong>1917 British Troops Defend Their Interests in Egypt and Invade Palestine</strong>
#Video length: fifty seven seconds.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #GB #UnitedKingdom #UK #WW1 #Archive #Egypt #Palestine #MiddleEast #Asia #Levant #Empire #Imperialism @histodon @histodons
<strong>(18 May 1936) The passing of Lord Allenby.
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#Video length: one minute.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #GB #UnitedKingdom #UK #WW1 #Archive @histodon @histodons
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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