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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**The meaning of bracket symbols**
**The Atomic Human -understanding ourselves in the age of AI**
"_In this insightful talk, Neil Lawrence will reveal how AI serves as a powerful assistant to human intelligence, not a replacement. He will discuss the limits of AI in replicating human thought and its profound impact on society and information management._"
🎥 #Video length: forty four minutes and fifty seconds.
**The genetic structure of Norway** 🇳🇴
"_The main finding of this study is that despite Norway’s long maritime history and as a former Danish territory, the region closest to mainland Europe in the south appears to have been an isolated region in Norway, highlighting the open sea as a barrier to gene flow into Norway._"
Mattingsdal, M., Ebenesersdóttir, S.S., Moore, K.H.S. et al. The genetic structure of Norway. Eur J Hum Genet 29, 1710–1718 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-021-00899-6
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Biology #Genetics #Anthropology #Norway #Scandinavia #Nordic #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
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Can't help think of the first map of the USA, and the ridiculous back story of its maker....
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/america-gains-its-first-map-the-mapmaker-gains-back-his-ear/
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PBS: AI and the energy required to power it fuel new climate concerns https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ai-and-the-energy-required-to-power-it-fuel-new-climate-concerns #AI #ClimateEmergency #google #power #energy
**Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology**
"_With this book, we want to apply a multidisciplinary approach that combines historical linguistics, archaeology, and comparative religion in order to improve our understanding of the early speakers of Indo-European._"
Larsson, J., Olander, T. and Jørgensen, A.R., 2024. Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bcn
#OpenAccess #OA #Linguistics #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics @bookstodon (85)
**The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae**
"_200 years after the Persian Wars, Greece faced another massive assault. This time, the threat came not from the east but from a Celtic invasion._"
Middleton, Neil. "The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/celtic-invasion-greece-thermopylae/ (accessed July 2, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Greece #Europe @histodon @histodons
**Discovering the North: Francesco Negri’s and Giuseppe Acerbi’s journeys to Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries**
"_Their narratives provide valuable insights into the cultural and societal landscape of the North during their time, illuminating a region largely undiscovered by other European travellers. By documenting their experiences and observations, Negri and Acerbi contribute to a broader understanding of Northern Europe, challenging prevailing narratives._"
Miscali, M. (2024) ‘Discovering the North: Francesco Negri’s and Giuseppe Acerbi’s journeys to Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries’, Scandinavian Journal of History, pp. 1–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2024.2368554.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Norway #Scandinavia #Europe #C17th #C18th #17thcentury #18thcentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
**2,000 years of German history in 200 pages**
"_Before the dawn of the Common Era two thousand years ago, Julius Caesar gave the land its name, Germania. But it was nineteen hundred years before the land became a country. That happened only in 1871 when the ruthless and brilliant Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck united twenty-five independent kingdoms, grand duchies, duchies, principalities, and free cities in a new German Empire._"
https://malwarwickonbooks.com/german-history-in-a-nutshell/
#Read #Reading #BookReview #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #Europe @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
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@bibliolater Note that by the 8th century there was a Schola Anglorum (English quarter) in Rome because of all the travel back-and-forth, so the Anglo-Saxons were never all that insular — I suspect that stereotype came from 19th century Romanticism, trying to depict them as pure germanic warriors unsullied by Latinate decadence, or some similar racist nonsense.
**Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts**
"_These finds put the Anglo-Saxon princes and their followers centre-stage in one of the last great wars of late antiquity. It takes them out of insular England into the plains of Syria and Iraq in a world of conflict and competition between the Byzantines and the Sasanians and gave those Anglo-Saxons literally a taste for something much more global than they probably could have imagined._"
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #AngloSaxons #England #Europe #Asia #Levant #MiddleEast #Syria #News @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
**Independence Day Reading List 2024**
"_Our Independence Day Reading List highlights the important role of Indigenous Peoples in the evolution of modern America, forgotten stories from America’s past, and revelatory biographies of the country’s founders._"
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/07/04/independence-day-reading-list-2024/
#Read #Reading #ReadingList #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #IndependenceDay #Independence #july4th #july4 #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #History @bookstodon
#Image attribution: IonlyPlayz, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_map_of_the_USA_~_Rivers_and_Lakes.png
**Every meteorite we saw falling down to earth**
**Song melodies have become simpler since 1950s – study**
"_An analysis of hundreds of chart hits from the past 70 years has shown “a significant decline” in the complexity of rhythm and pitch in song melodies, UK researchers said._"
<strong>Five common English words we don’t know the origins of – including ‘boy’ and ‘dog’</strong>
"_The English lexicon includes some terms known as “proper words”, which today apparently exist only in English. Cognates for them cannot be found in any other language._
_These are very simple and common words but being unique, we cannot apply the comparative method to them and therefore cannot reconstruct their origins._"
#History #English #Language #Linguistics #OldEnglish @linguistics
<strong>The United States has, by far, the highest death rate from opioids</strong>
"_In 2021, the United States had, by far, the highest death rate from opioids, with 15.4 deaths per 100,000 people each year. Second behind it was Canada, with 6.9 deaths per 100,000. Several European countries and Russia counted between 3 and 4 deaths per 100,000._"
**Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia**
"_This study suggests that the Bronze Age boat imagery in southern Scandinavia depicts plank-built vessels of a type that belonged to the same boatbuilding tradition as the c. 350 BC Hjortspring boat. More importantly, aspects of this boat imagery can be directly related to the contemporary ship-settings, suggesting use of sail and the existence of boats that from stem to stem (excluding horn projections) might have been in the region of up 20–30 metres or perhaps even larger._"
Bengtsson, B., Artursson, M. and Wehlin, J. (2024) ‘Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia’, Norwegian Archaeological Review, pp. 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2024.2357135.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Scandinavia #Nordic #BronzeAge #Sailing #Boats #History #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons
<strong>What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?</strong>
"_Fascism prospered from a paralysis of the state’s capacity for dispatching its key organizing functions, whether in the economy or for the larger tasks of keeping cohesion in society. At the worst points of the crisis, that paralysis encompassed the entire institutional machinery of politics, including the parliamentary and party-political frameworks of representation._"
Geoff Eley, What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?, History Workshop Journal, Volume 91, Issue 1, Spring 2021, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbab003
#Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Fascism #Politics #PoliticalScience #DOI #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience @histodon @histodons
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My footnote is bigger than yours.
Greetings from Christian Philipp Leutwein's 1691 pamphlet featuring a very space-consuming #footnote on page 18. In fact, the footnote started on page 17...
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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