Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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 containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 **Mystery behind 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets predicting doom solved**
"_The text is the oldest archaeological record of lunar eclipse omens and shows how ancient astrologers made predictions about disasters threatening the Mesopotamian civilisation by analysing celestial phenomena._"
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #HIstory #Histodon #Histodons #Mesopotamia #Asia @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **Clouds and climate change**
"_Meet cloud scientist Edward Gryspeerdt and find out why clouds aren't just fluffy shapes in the sky ⛅_"
#Video length: seven minutes and six seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/A9xAG601dG4
#Water #Ships #Travel #Physics #Clouds #Science #Climate #ClimateChange @physics @climatechange @science
🔴 **How protectionism can help developing countries unlock their economic potential**
"_In fact, the most protectionist country throughout history is the US. It had the world’s highest average tariff rates on imported manufactures throughout the 1800s, a period that saw the country transform into a global economic powerhouse._"
#Business #Trade #Economics #Protectionism #Tarrifs @economics
🔴 **Who's the Greatest Actor in Movie History? A Statistical Analysis**
"_We'll deconstruct various facets of movie celebrity before pinpointing a handful of consensus selections. Will this exercise produce something authoritative? Who knows (and who knows what it means to be an authority)? Will we better understand different expressions of cinematic greatness while discussing some wonderful movies? Absolutely._"
🔗 https://www.statsignificant.com/p/whos-the-greatest-actor-in-movie
#Data #Statistics #Analysis #History #Movies #Cinema #Actors
🔴 🎥 **The Texas Preacher Who Used God to Steal**
"_In Tarrant County, Texas, an elderly man and former preacher advertised himself as “The Money Doctor”. He exploited the trust of his peers, skillfully hiding deceptive financial practices under a cloak of religious virtue. Bloomberg Investigates unveils the intimate story of those whose lives were destroyed by this $38 million dollar Ponzi scheme._"
#Video length: thirty one minutes and fifty three seconds.
@samlitzinger Thank you for following.
🔴 **How bread dough gave rise to civilisation**
"_A major international study has explained how bread wheat helped to transform the ancient world on its path to becoming the iconic crop that today sustains a global population of eight billion._"
🔗 https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/how-bread-dough-gave-rise-to-civilisation/
#Ancient #Wheat #Bread #Genetics #DNA #Research #Study #Science @science
🔴 📰 🎥 **Paleography and the Book Lecture “Where Did Newspaper Typeface Come From?”**
"_UChicago visiting scholar David Ganz discussed how influential scripts such as Caroline minuscule and Italian Humanistic served as models for typefaces like Times New Roman._"
#Video length: one hour and twenty one minutes.
🔗 https://youtu.be/hnTKDv0vdz0
#Lecture #Paleography #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Script #History #Histodon #Histodons #Typeface #Fonts #Typography #Newspaper #TimesNewRoman @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
Bibliolater 📚📜🖋
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How about Georgia as an alternative to Times New Roman?
https://beetrootacademy.com/articles/why-using-times-new-roman-is-a-sin
Bibliolater 📚📜🖋
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@bibliolater I wrote a whole blog post about my recommended Times New Roman alternatives, so that's a 'no' from me :)
https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2024/4/5/times-new-roman-alternatives-follow-up
🔴 **Are you a #TimesNewRoman partisan?**
#Fonts #Typography #Typeface #Poll #Polls #Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon
🔴 **Historical and archaeogenomic identification of high-status Englishmen at Jamestown, Virginia**
"_Genomic analyses of the skeletons identify unexpected maternal relatedness as both carried the mitochondrial haplogroup H10e. In this unusual case, aDNA prompted further historical research that led to the discovery of illegitimacy in the West family, an aspect of identity omitted, likely intentionally, from genealogical records._"
Owsley, D.W. et al. (2024) ‘Historical and archaeogenomic identification of high-status Englishmen at Jamestown, Virginia’, Antiquity, pp. 1–15. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.75.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genealogy #History #Histodon #Histodons #Jamestown #Virginia #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Global Debt Hits a New High of $315 Trillion**
"_Today, the largest share of debt is held by non-financial corporations, at $94.1 trillion, while government borrowings follow closely behind at $91.4 trillion. Meanwhile, the financial sector holds $70.4 trillion in debt and households carry $59.1 trillion._"
🔗 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-debt-hits-a-new-high-of-315-trillion/
🔴 📖 🎥 **The Tragic Truth About Beautiful Books**
#Video length: eighteen minutes and nine minutes.
🔴 🇦🇹 🇩🇪 🎥 **Clickbait meets populism and extremism - TikTok and politics**
"_We show how right-wing populists use TikTok to spread their messages and shed light on the impact it has on the political landscape and on young people._"
#Video length: twenty eight minutes and twenty six seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/VeMhHtfe81s
#DW #Documentary #Politics #RightWing #Populism #Democracy #Clickbait #Tiktok #SocialMedia #Austria #Germany #Europe
🔴 **Transmission of social bias through observational learning**
"_Across six experiments, we demonstrated that group preferences can be acquired by merely observing the behavior of a prejudiced actor toward members of a group. This effect emerged despite observers’ lack of stereotype knowledge, unawareness of demonstrator preferences, the lack of actual group differences in players’ feedback, and the use of financial incentives for accuracy, suggesting that observational learning constitutes a potent and persistent mode of prejudice transmission._"
David T. Schultner et al., Transmission of social bias through observational learning. Sci. Adv.10, eadk2030 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk2030.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Psychology #Science #Neuroscience #Prejudice #Bias #Learning #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology @science
🔴 **Applying a transaction cost perspective to decode viking Scandinavia's earliest recorded value relation: insights from the forsa ring’s runic inscription**
"_The congruence in oxen valuation observed between Northern Sweden and 10th-century England is notably significant. It suggests the existence of a profoundly interwoven European institutional architecture of monetary relations that bridged considerable geographical expanses._"
Edvinsson, R. (2024) ‘Applying a transaction cost perspective to decode viking Scandinavia’s earliest recorded value relation: insights from the forsa ring’s runic inscription’, Scandinavian Economic History Review, pp. 1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2024.2378465.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Scandinavia #Europe #Economics #History #EconHist #Vikings #IronAge #Money #Runes #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics @econhist
🔴 🇦🇺 **Cosmos magazine’s AI-generated articles are bad for trust in science**
"_Rolling out an AI experiment with a lack of transparency is at best ignorant, and at worst dangerous_"
#Opinion #Australia #Media #AI #ArtificialIntellignece #Science @ai @science
🔴 **What Was the First Written Language?**
"_Human beings have been speaking languages for hundreds of thousands of years, but it is only recently that written language systems have been used._"
Beyer, Greg. "What Was the First Written Language?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/what-was-the-first-written-language/ (accessed August 12, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Writing #Languages #Linguistics @histodon @histodons @linguistics
🔴 **“A year of record highs in an energy hungry world”, EI Statistical Review reveals**
"_Global fossil fuel consumption reached a record high, up 1.5% to 505 EJ (driven by coal up 1.6%, oil up 2% to above 100 million barrels for first time, while gas was flat). As a share of the overall mix they were at 81.5%, marginally down from 82% last year._
_Emissions from energy increased by 2%, exceeding 40 gigatonnes of CO2 for the first time._"
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 containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
