Interesting results: people are more likely to believe fake news from a stranger.
This finding would be explained if people intuitively apply the three questions we suggest in our book to assess any claim:
1. Who is telling me this?
2. How do they know it?
3. What are they trying to sell me?
You know what your friends don't have a way of knowing (and you often know what they're trying to sell you.) With a stranger, these are harder questions to answer.
βIf itβs worth doing itβs worth printingβ #AcademicChattter
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/07/15/tracing-the-origins-of-publish-or-perish/
π΄ ποΈ Aaron Alexander Zubia - The Political Thought of David Hume
“A conversation with Aaron Alexander Zubia about his recent book, “The Political Thought of David Hume: the Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination” (Notre Dame Press).”
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thepoliticaltheoryreview/episodes/2024-07-17T12_35_19-07_00
#Audio #Podcast #Politics #DavidHume #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
π΄ πΊπΈ Musket balls from first major battle of revolutionary war found near Boston
“The latest evidence of that firefight is five musket balls dug up last year near the North Bridge site in the Minute Man national historical park in Concord. Early analysis of the balls β gray with sizes ranging from a pea to a marble β indicates colonial militia members fired them at British forces on 19 April 1775.”
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Boston #Massachusetts #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #C18th #18thCentury @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
π΄ π₯ This tiny solar-powered flyer weighs less than a paper plane
“…researchers have developed CoulombFly, a solar-powered MAV propelled by a new extremely efficient electro-static motor and powered by incredibly light solar panels.”
#Video length: three minutes and three seconds.
π΄ π₯ π¦πΊ Australia In Colour Episode 3: Populate or Perish
“The government adopts the slogan “populate or perish” after World War II and immigration changes the face of Australia. This influx of labor and the diversification of the economy delivers increasing prosperity.”
#Video length: forty seven minutes and thirty eight seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2hNF91Og5Y
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Documentary #Australia #Immigration #Migration #Migrants #Immigrants @histodon @histodons
π΄ π₯ π¦πΊ Australia In Colour Episode 2: Shifting Allegiances
“Sport and comedy offer some relief from the hunger and hopelessness of the Great Depression - at least until the war breaks out. Australia sends troops to Europe to fight beside Britain but when Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the nation turns to America for protection and pulls troops out of the Middle East.”
#Video length: forty seven minutes and forty five seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aytnob10oT4
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Documentary #Australia #GreatDepression #WWII #WW2 @histodon @histodons
π΄ π₯ π¦πΊ Australia in Colour Episode 1: Outpost of the Empire
“Modern Australia was born on January 1, 1901, when six British colonies united. Agriculture and mining transformed the country. “Australia in Colour” is the history of Australia told through a unique collection of cinematic moments brought to life for the first time in color.”
#Video length: forty nine minutes and fifty one seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLHMh8ov9I
#Documentary #Australia #History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #UK #Empire #Colonies @histodon @histodons
π΄ Many plant names are offensive: botanists will vote on whether to change them
“One of the proposals aims to rename an estimated 218 species whose scientific names are based on the word caffra and various derivatives β which are ethnic slurs often used against Black people in southern Africa β and to replace it with derivatives of βafrβ to instead recognize Africa.”
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02337-1
#DOI #Science #News #Botany #Plants #Taxonomy @botany @science
π΄ ποΈ Why Machines Learn: The Math Behind AI
“In this episode Autumn and Anil Ananthaswamy discuss the inspiration behind his book βWhy Machines Learnβ and the importance of understanding the math behind machine learning. He explains that the book aims to convey the beauty and essential concepts of machine learning through storytelling, history, sociology, and mathematics.”
https://zencastr.com/z/jgNd4-TS
#Audio #Podcast #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Tech #Technology #STEM #Science #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @ai @science @bookstodon
π΄ ποΈ Can the climate survive AIβs thirst for energy? β podcast
“Artificial intelligence companies have lofty ambitions for what the technology could achieve, from curing diseases to eliminating poverty. But the energy required to power these innovations is threatening critical environmental targets.”
#Audio #Podcast #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Computing #Tech #Technology #STEM #Climate #ClimateChange #Energy #Industry @ai @climatechange
The most ancient human genome yet has been sequencedβand itβs a Denisovanβs
https://www.science.org/content/article/most-ancient-human-genome-yet-has-been-sequenced-and-it-s-denisovan
200,000-year-old DNA from Siberian cave shows our elusive, extinct cousins mated repeatedly with Neanderthals
π΄ Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks
“Language models also perform imperfectly on logical reasoning tasks and more often fail in situations where humans failβwhen stimuli become too abstract or conflict with prior expectations.”
Andrew K Lampinen, Ishita Dasgupta, Stephanie C Y Chan, Hannah R Sheahan, Antonia Creswell, Dharshan Kumaran, James L McClelland, Felix Hill, Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2024, pgae233, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae233
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #LanguageModels #Reasoning #Logic #ComputerScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai
π΄ π Is there a particular book that you periodically re-read and discover that each time you learn new ideas from it?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Ideas #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Michael D Beckwith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rijks_Museum_Library_(243776563).jpeg
and here's an utterly benign #map from 1936 of sheep breeds, by an architect called Joseph Sims. See the whole thing at https://oshermaps.org/map/50995.0001 - and while you're at it, check out his other maps in the OML collections! #maphistory
π΄ π Medicine in an Age of Revolution
“This work is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain emanated from puritanism. It seeks to reaffirm the crucial role of the period of the civil wars and their aftermath in providing the most congenial context for a re-evaluation of traditional attitudes to medicine.”
Elmer, Peter, Medicine in an Age of Revolution (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 28 Sept. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853985.001.0001, accessed 9 July 2024.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #EarlyModern #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Medicine #Health #HistSci #STEM #Science #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (87)
π΄ ποΈ Proto-Germanic and YoΓ―n van Spijk [@yvanspijk]
https://shows.acast.com/64e0e1540b9dd60011338b81/66941699991cb9347cdf3671
#Audio #Podcast #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
π΄ Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace
“Instead of one world community, the European overseas powers had created what the French philosopher and economist the Marquis de Mirabeau described in 1758 as βa new and monstrous systemβ that vainly attempted to combine three distinct types of political association (or, as he called them, esprits): domination, commerce, and settlement. The inevitable conflict that had arisen between these had thrown all the European powers into crisis. In Mirabeauβs view, the only way forward was to abandon both settlement and conquest especially conquest in favor of commerce.”
Anthony Pagden; Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace. Daedalus 2005; 134 (2): 46β57. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/0011526053887301
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #PoliticalScience #Imperialism #Liberalism #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @politicalscience
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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