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🔴 🇳🇴 Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga

"Here we apply palaeogenomic analysis to human remains excavated from a medieval well at the ruins of Sverresborg Castle in central Norway. In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson, one passage details a 1197-CE raid on the castle and mentions a dead man thrown into the well. Radiocarbon dating supports that these are that individual’s remains."

Ellegaard, M.R. et al. (2024) 'Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga,' iScience, p. 111076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111076.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Paleobiology #Paleogenetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Norse #Norway #History #Europe #Academia #Academics @science @anthropology @archaeodons

🔴 Forced Changes Only: A New Take on the Law of Inertia

"The thesis of this paper is that such paraphrases of Newton’s First Law are all incorrect, because the law, as Newton stated it, is not just a description of the motion of force-free bodies. It is in fact a stronger, more general principle, constraining the motion of all bodies."

Hoek, D. (2023) ‘Forced Changes Only: A New Take on the Law of Inertia’, Philosophy of Science, 90(1), pp. 60–76. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2021.38.

#Philosophy #Science @philosophy @science

🔴 📖 How does reading non-fiction books help you to understand the world around you?

#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #EBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon

#Image attribution: Ch. Maderthoner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Books_01.JPG

🔴 Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss

"In one conversation, HDF’s organiser was recorded discussing “remigration” – a euphemism for the mass removal of ethnic minorities – saying: “You’ve just got to pay people to go home.” The term has become a buzzword on the hard right, with Donald Trump using it in September to describe his own policies in a post on X that has been viewed 56m times."

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/16/revealed-international-race-science-network-secretly-funded-by-us-tech-boss

#Race #FarRight #Migration #Science #Biology #Genetics #Germany #Europe @science @biology

🔴 📓 🎥 How The Notebook Changed the Entire World Forever w/Roland Allen

"In episode 275 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by book publisher and notebook historian, Roland Allen, to discuss his brand new book, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper."

#Video length: one hour and one minute.

🔗 https://youtu.be/fNGg7Bz31FI

#Writing #Book #Books #Notebook #Notebooks #Podcast

🔴 Too many numbers and worse word choice: Why readers find data-driven news articles produced with automation harder to understand

"Overall, this study showed that although news stories produced with automation were perceived equally to those produced without regarding sentence and paragraph length and writing style, they were evaluated as less comprehensible overall and with regard to the presentation of numbers and statistics."

Thäsler-Kordonouri, S., Thurman, N., Schwertberger, U., & Stalph, F. (2024). Too many numbers and worse word choice: Why readers find data-driven news articles produced with automation harder to understand. Journalism, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241262204.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Journalism #Data #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #News #Media #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai @journalism

🔴 🇺🇿 🎥 Uncovering a lost mountain metropolis

"The finding of these urban centres, called Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, at such high altitudes, may mean that highland areas may have played a more important role in medieval trade than previously thought."

#Video length: eight minutes and one second.

🔗 https://youtu.be/EUlKEJfEvgU

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Uzbekistan #CentralAsia #Asia @histodon @histodons @archaeodons

🔴 Language at a glance: How our brains grasp linguistic structure from parallel visual input

"Our results indicate that the left temporal cortex performs a rough sketch of syntactic structure starting as early as 125 ms after stimulus onset. This is faster than most estimates of even single-word visual perception (14), suggesting that the speed arises specifically from the parallel availability of the full sentence, with each word supporting the recognition of the other ones. This allows for rapid matching of the stimulus to top-down knowledge of sentence structure. Just like you can recognize a cup very quickly if you lay your full hand on it, feeling many parts simultaneously (15), you are able to understand a sentence very quickly if you lay your eyes on the full sentence all at once."

Jacqueline Fallon, Liina Pylkkänen, Language at a glance: How our brains grasp linguistic structure from parallel visual input. Sci. Adv. 10, eadr9951 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr9951

#OpenAccess #Research #Article #DOI #Neuroscience #Brain #Language #Psychology #Science #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @psychology

🔴 📖 Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire

"...brings together scholars of Achaemenid history, literature and religion, Iranian linguistics, historians of the Ancient Near East, archeologists, biblical scholars and Semiticists. The goal is to better understand the interchange of ideas, expressions and concepts as well as the experience of historical events between Yahwists and the empire that ruled over them for over two centuries."

Barnea, G. and Kratz, R. 2024. Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire: Professor Shaul Shaked in Memoriam. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111018638.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Ancient #NearEast #Religion #Judaism #Theology #Persia #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (91)

🔴 🎥 New largest prime number found! See all 41,024,320 digits.

#Video length: ten minutes and thirteen seconds.

🔗 https://youtu.be/zsyGRDrDfbI

#Maths #Mathematics #Math #PrimeNumbers

🔴 🧠 The hidden role of air pollution in cognitive decline

"PM2.5 are fine airborne particles small enough to enter the lungs and even the bloodstream, posing significant health risks. Long-term exposure has been linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, resulting in air pollution being listed as one of the modifiable risk factors in the recent report of the Lancet commision on dementia prevention, intervention and care. However, the mechanisms through which PM2.5 affects cognitive function remain poorly understood."

🔗 https://www.uni.lu/lcsb-en/news/hidden-role-of-air-pollution-in-cognitive-decline/

#Science #Research #Pollution #Brain #Health @science