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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 containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🔴 **The curious origins of four English expressions – including will-o’-the-wisp and against the grain**
"_The origins of English expressions are often obscure and require deep linguistic and documentary research to be explained. Being phrases, not single words, their intrinsic meanings can be reconstructed by studying old texts and their earliest use._"
#Linguistics #History #English #Langauge #Etymology #Idioms @linguistics
🔴 🇪🇸 **Submerged bridge constructed at least 5600 years ago indicates early human arrival in Mallorca, Spain**
"_The exact reasons behind the construction of these structures in Genovesa Cave remain elusive. Nevertheless, the chronological constraints posed by the depth of the bridge, coupled with the similar depth at which POS and the coloration mark occur, support the idea of an early human presence on the island by 5600 years B.P. and potentially dating back as far as 6000 years ago._"
Onac, B.P., Polyak, V.J., Mitrovica, J.X. et al. Submerged bridge constructed at least 5600 years ago indicates early human arrival in Mallorca, Spain. Commun Earth Environ 5, 457 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01584-4
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #ClimateChange #Environment #Palaeoceanography #Mallorca #Spain #Academia #Academic #Academics
🔴 📖 **“The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present” by Allen James Fromherz**
"_Fromherz focuses on two main characteristics that have framed and formed the Gulf as a region: first, it was open to commerce, people and ideas and, second, that it mostly managed to wriggle out of the grip of larger empires. Both were very much functions of geography._"
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Topography of Wealth**
"_Los Angeles has 58 billionaires and 58,000 homeless people. In a city where destitution coexists with opulence, vast gaps in opportunity exist between neighborhoods. Let's use physical terrain as a metaphor to visualize income inequality across LA._"
🔴 🇺🇸 **How the South Became Republican**
"_Over the course of the 1952 campaign Eisenhower made three swings through the South, visiting every state except Mississippi. He cajoled audiences and slammed politics in the capital. At times, he courted controversy. When ‘Dixie’, a pro-Confederate song and relic of the Civil War, was played during a visit to South Carolina, Eisenhower commented: ‘I always stand up when they play that song’, drawing cheers from the crowd._"
🔗 **https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/how-south-became-republican**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Republicans #GOP #Eisenhower #TheSouth @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇩🇪 **Germany’s richest people are indeed very, very rich**
"_It shows how negligible the already quite rich people are compared to the richest of the rich – not to mention how big the difference is compared to a German of average wealth. To put this even more in context: You would have to save €1 every second for the next 1117 years to become as rich as the richest person in Germany._"
🔗 **https://blog.datawrapper.de/germanys-richest-people-wealth/**
🔴 🎥 **Brownian Motion**
"_This motion proved that atoms exist._"
#Video length: one minute.
🔴 **Her gift launched four centuries of Harvard financial aid**
"_As a woman, Anne Radcliffe wouldn’t have been able to attend the University when she donated its first scholarship in 1643_"
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Harvard #Education @histodon @histodons
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Scientific American is the oldest continuous publication in the U.S. and it's our birthday! We're 179 years old. Here's a gif showing how our logo has evolved from 1845 to today:
🔴 🇪🇸 **Archaeologists discover how 6,000-year-old Spanish structure was built with stones heavier than at Stonehenge**
"_Structure was built using ‘advanced knowledge’ in fields of geology, physics, geometry, and astronomy_"
🔗 **https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/spain-stone-age-dolmen-de-menga-b2602888.html**
🔴 📚 **Bookshop.org launches secondhand book buy-back scheme that will rival Amazon**
"_Bookloop by Bookshop.org will allow readers to exchange books for credit, which can then be used to purchase other titles from their website. Authors and indie bookshops will then receive royalties from the exchange._"
🔴 **AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect**
"_Here, we demonstrate that language models embody covert racism in the form of dialect prejudice, exhibiting raciolinguistic stereotypes about speakers of African American English (AAE) that are more negative than any human stereotypes about African Americans ever experimentally recorded. By contrast, the language models’ overt stereotypes about African Americans are more positive._"
Hofmann, V., Kalluri, P.R., Jurafsky, D. et al. AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07856-5
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #ComputerScience #Racism #Racist #Linguistics #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai @linguistics
🔴 🎙️ **Episode 308 – The Fall of Anatolia**
"_The arrival of the Mongols in Anatolia would eventually lead to the expulsion of the Romans. Mongol dominance of the plateau sent waves of tribes into Byzantine territory. It was a crisis which the Emperor Andronikos was not equal to._"
🔗 **https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/2024/08/28/episode-308-the-fall-of-anatolia/**
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium #Empire @histodon @histodons
🔴 📚 **A study of the effects of four reading styles on college students’ mental health and quality of life based on positive psychology-A first-of-its-kind study**
"_Paper text reading and audio reading methods were effective in reducing anxiety levels and improving sleep quality. However, the electronic text reading approach was less effective compared to paper text reading and audio reading, and the video reading approach was not effective in improving depression._"
Liu Y (2024) A study of the effects of four reading styles on college students’ mental health and quality of life based on positive psychology-A first-of-its-kind study. PLOS ONE 19(8): e0308475. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308475
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Psychology #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
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#NASA study tallies carbon emissions from massive Canadian fires
They found that the Canadian fires released more #carbon in five months than Russia or Japan emitted from fossil fuels in all of 2022 (about 480 million and 291 million metric tons, respectively). While the #CarbonDioxide (#CO2) emitted from both #wildfires and #FossilFuel combustion cause extra #warming immediately, there's an important distinction, the scientists noted.
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-nasa-tallies-carbon-emissions-massive.html
🔴 🇬🇧 **Middle-class British people are talking more alike than ever**
"_Specifically, our research found British people from the corporate world, higher education, and neighbouring fields adopt more similar speech patterns than they used to in the 1990s. And this might have something to do with the growing importance placed on inclusivity in corporate workplaces._"
🔗 **https://theconversation.com/middle-class-british-people-are-talking-more-alike-than-ever-234305**
#English #Language #Linguistics #MiddleClass #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain @linguistics
🔴 **The algorithmic knowledge gap within and between countries: Implications for combatting misinformation**
"_Varying levels of algorithmic knowledge prompted individuals to respond to misinformation differently; those possessing higher algorithmic knowledge were more inclined to undertake actions to combat misinformation on social media than those lacking algorithmic knowledge._"
Chung, M., & Wihbey, J. (2024). The algorithmic knowledge gap within and between countries: Implications for combatting misinformation. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-155
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deceptive behaviour and success on false belief tasks in large language models
🔴 🇪🇸 **Five centuries of consanguinity, isolation, health, and conflict in Las Gobas: A Northern Medieval Iberian necropolis**
"_By integrating genetic, archaeological, and historical data, we unveil the presence of an endogamous and consanguineous community in Northern Iberia. Despite centuries of turbulent regional history, this community experienced limited external gene flow. Our findings indicate that this community remained relatively isolated for at least five centuries._"
Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela et al., Five centuries of consanguinity, isolation, health, and conflict in Las Gobas: A Northern Medieval Iberian necropolis. Sci. Adv.10, eadp8625 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp8625.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #DNA #Palaeogenetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Iberia #Medieval #Medievodons #Spain #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @anthropology @medievodons
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"The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope."
#OTD in 1844.
Alexandre Dumas père's near-recent historical adventure story Le Comte de Monte-Cristo begins serialization in the Paris newspaper Journal des débats, and continues through to January 1846. Book publication also begins this year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Le+Comte+de+Monte-Cristo&submit_search=Go%21
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
