Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org

🔴 **The paradox of class**

"_How Low-Status Languages Become Elite Symbols in Foreign Lands_"

🔗 **https://www.biblonia.com/p/the-paradox-of-class**

#Class #Languages

🔴 🗺️ **Babylonian Map of the World: The oldest known map of the ancient world**

"_This tablet, which depicts how Babylonians perceived the world thousands of years ago, is peppered with details that offer insight into an earlier time. For example, the ancient world is shown as a singular disc, which is encircled by a ring of water called the Bitter River. At the world's center sits the Euphrates River and the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon._"

🔗 **https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/babylonian-map-of-the-world-the-oldest-known-map-of-the-ancient-world**

#Ancient #Map #Maps #Cartography #Archaeology #Arcaheodons @archaeodons

🔴 🎥 **AI Struggles to Solve Moravec's Paradox**

"_Simple everyday tasks that humans find incredibly easy can flummox the most advanced robots, according to Moravec’s paradox. But that may soon change._"

#Video length: one minute

🔗 **https://youtu.be/OoMKyAYU9hY**

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Robots @ai

🔴 🎥 **The Revenge of Analog: For Those Who Are Sick of the Digital World**

"_Humans are analogue! We're literally sick of the digital world engulfing us. People are yearning for real things and authenticty. IMPOSSIBLE is sensuous and inspiring film about the revenge of analog._"

#Video length: one hour and thirty eight minutes.

🔗 **https://youtu.be/hV17iwAKnxk**

#Documentary #Digital #Analog

🔴 📚 🌍 **Visualized: Which Countries Publish the Most Books in Each Region?**

"_This graphic visualizes the number of books published by the number of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN, a unique product identifier for cataloging and tracking book sales) registered in 2022 for the top countries in each global region._"

🔗 **https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-which-countries-publish-the-most-books-in-each-region/**

#Data #DataViz #Publishing #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 📚 🎥 **Hugh of Fouilloy and William of Conches’ De Natura Avium**

"_Are you interested in old books? Written and compiled in the late 12th century, this luxury manuscript compiles several texts about the natural world, including from natural philosopher and medieval scientist William of Conches._"

#Video length: seven minutes and thirty one seconds.

🔗 **https://youtu.be/7dmVcDXM7vk**

#History #OldBook #OldBooks #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 🔬 🎥 **The Revolutionary Compound Microscope**

"_Get a close-up look at a French gilt-bronze compound microscope, a technological wonder of the18th century, with conservator Arlen Heginbotham._"

#Video length: five minutes and six seconds.

🔗 **https://youtu.be/uaWGBBikcbo**

#C18th #18thCentury #History #HistSci #Science @science

🔴 🇪🇸 **Tracing social disruptions over time using radiocarbon datasets: Copper and Early Bronze Ages in Southeast Iberia**

"_Our statistical analysis indicates that most probably the changes in funerary rituals in southeast Iberia were fast. It also implies that the local populations had dropped in numbers before 2200 cal BCE, so that the presence of ‘Steppe ancestry’ ca. 2200–2000 cal BCE could be the result of their admixture with neighbouring peoples._"

Micó, R. et al. (2024) 'Tracing social disruptions over time using radiocarbon datasets: Copper and Early Bronze Ages in Southeast Iberia,' Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, p. 104692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104692.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #CopperAge #BronzeAge #Demography #Ancestry #Spain #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons

🔴 📚 🎥 **Trying To Make £10,000 In A Week Selling Old Books**

#Video length: twenty five minutes and forty nine seconds.

https://youtu.be/GolCUp5f2Vw

#Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 **GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation**

"_Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing. The resulting enhanced potential for malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base, particularly in politically divisive domains, is a growing concern._"

Haider, J., Söderström, K. R., Ekström, B., & Rödl, M. (2024). GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-156

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Essay #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Misinformation #Disinformation #Academia #Academic #Academics

🔴 🎙️ **Episode 324: The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest**

"_In this week’s episode, hear the tale of the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest, and understand why it such a monumentally important event in human history._"

🔗 **https://halfarsedhistory.net/2024/09/08/episode-324-the-battle-of-the-teutoburg-forest/**

#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodon #Histodons #Rome #Imperium @histodon @histodons

🔴 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 **'Absolutely outstanding' 12-century picture stone unearthed in Germany likely depicts bishop who brought Christianity to region**

"_The newfound carving may depict Otto of Bamberg (lived 1060 to 1139), a bishop who served royalty and a missionary who sought to convert people in Pomerania, which is now part of Germany and Poland._"

🔗 **https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/absolutely-outstanding-12-century-picture-stone-unearthed-in-germany-likely-depicts-bishop-who-brought-christianity-to-region**

#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Christianity #Religion #Germany #Poland #Europe @archaeodons

🔴 🌡️ 🎥 **Summer heat record puts world on track for hottest year ever**

"_Scientists have confirmed that the summer in the northern Hemisphere has just broken global heat records for the second consecutive year. That means that 2024 is likely to be the hottest year ever recorded._"

#Video length: twenty two seconds.

🔗 **https://youtu.be/whhKGCKZDYY**

#Climate #ClimateChange #Science @science @climatechange

🔴 🇬🇧 **Who do Britons trust to tell the truth?**

"_Most Britons trust doctors, scientists, teachers and judges, but Reform UK voters have significantly less trust in most institutions_"

🔗 **https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/50459-who-do-britons-trust-to-tell-the-truth**

#Data #DataViz #Poll #UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #Trust #Truth

🔴 🎥 **An Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Explain the Universe**

"_Why would archaeologists care about a particle physics experiment hiding deep beneath the Apennine Mountains, seeking to answer one of the most fundamental mysteries of reality as we know it?_"

#Video length: thirty one minutes and fourteen seconds.

🔗 **https://youtu.be/o0A9M5wHBA4**

#Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons @science @archaeodons

🔴 📖 **From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond**

"_This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond._"

Bay, C., Avioz, M., and van Henten, J. W. (eds) (06 Jun. 2024). From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004693296 [Accessed 06 September 2024]

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (90)

🔴 **Roman coin trove discovered on Mediterranean island may have been hidden during ancient pirate attack**

"_The silver coin discoveries date to the Roman Republic and are from the island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia._"

🔗 **https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/ancient-pirate-attack-may-have-prompted-hiding-of-silver-coin-stash-from-roman-times**

#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Roman #Coins #Mediterranean @archaeodons