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
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#Bitcoin - The whole market is up and #crypto has a high beta. This makes #crypto a very risky asset. When everyone else gets rich, you get even richer. And when markets crash, you are even worse off - just when you may need money most, chart @AllisonSchrager https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-12/trump-win-doesn-t-completely-explain-the-bitcoin-bubble
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#China’s #trade surplus is on track to hit a record this year, increasingly putting it on a collision course with some of the world’s biggest economies by aggravating an imbalance in global commerce and potentially provoking Trump – chart @economics https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-11/china-approaches-record-1-trillion-trade-surplus-to-world-s-ire
#QOTO: I have followed a number of accounts recently. Some of them are through flipboard and others are private accounts. The toots from the flipboard account such as Flipboard UK (see image) are showing in my home timeline but still have the 'egg timer' sign and I am being asked if I want to cancel follow request. The other set of accounts (private) just have the cancel request with the "egg timer" and none of their toots appear in my home timeline. I was wondering if there is anything I can do to resolve this situation?
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Some good news: the Barricades project website is up and running again:
"‘To the Barricades’ is a collaborative website project that seeks to chart and compare the development of forms of popular contention and protest in Europe in the years 1815-1850 – from the final fall of Napoleon to the collapse of the revolutions of 1848."
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Humanity has warmed the planet by 1.5°C since 1700
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455715-humanity-has-warmed-the-planet-by-1-5c-since-1700/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Climate Change @climate-change-science
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#30DayMapChallenge Day 11: Arctic map. Here's the extent of Arctic sea ice, every January since 1974.
🔴 🎥 Bredt’s Rule was broken
"What's more fun than proving a 100 year old chemistry principle wrong?"
#Video length: fifty nine seconds.
🔴 🌍 How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa
"“There’s been this long-standing argument—and this is something that comes out of the colonial narrative—that parts of Africa have just always been food insecure because their agriculture, environments, or crops are inferior,” says Logan. But, as the data show, African farmers were knowledgeable and successful for thousands of years. Outside forces uprooted that security."
🔗 https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/food-insecurity-west-africa-origins-colonialism/
#Essay #Anthropology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Colonialism #Food #Africa @anthropology @histodon @histodons
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New #ebook @gutenberg_org: The first voyage round the world, by Magellan by Antonio Pigafetta https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74723
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I may have posted this link before, but Matt Might's short visual essay "Illustrated Guide to a PhD" is a pretty reasonable starting model for what a #PhD contributes to the sum of human knowledge. https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Do you think auto deleting toots is a good idea?
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My Fediverse Advice:
* Follow more people. No, even more people than that. Basically, if you find a real person and their posts are good follow 'em
* If you get a good reply to a post boost it. If you make a good reply to a post boost it. Replies are not visible in the feed unless you do this. As long as the post is an OK start to a conversation or interesting boost it.
* Write thoughtful replies. And if you put effort into a reply boost it or probably only the people tagged will see it.
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German scholar Johann Albert Fabricius was born #OTD in 1668.
He produced several significant bibliographies, such as Bibliotheca Graeca, Bibliotheca Latina, Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica, and Bibliotheca Latina mediae et infimae aetatis.
Already done.
Why getting your flu and COVID-19 vaccines before the holidays is a good idea https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/why-getting-your-flu-and-covid-19...
🔴 📖 Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction
"The earliest surviving depiction of the four cardinal directions is found in the Gasur Map, a clay tablet from the third millennium BCE discovered in modern-day Iraq. It refers not to astronomical observations but meteorological ones: the four winds."
#BookReview #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #History #Culture #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting the most reclusive masters of the terra incognita North Sentinel Island
"In terms of similarities, genomic studies reveal that the ancestors of the Asian clade migrated from Africa through India, entering Australia around 48,000 years ago (Sasikumar, 2023). Subsequent sub-clades, such as M31, migrated to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands around 37,000 years ago (Palanichamy et al., 2006; Barik et al., 2008), showing genetic affinity with the Burmese populace (Sasikumar, 2023)."
Paul, S., Justin, A. & Chatterjee, S. Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting the most reclusive masters of the terra incognita North Sentinel Island. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 1512 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03994-3
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Athropology #NorthSentinelIsland #Sentinelese #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology
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The projected average #compensation of CEOs at the 350 largest publicly owned US companies was $25.2 million. Meanwhile, the CEO-to-worker pay ratio was approximately 344-to-1, chart @bethkowitt https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-opinion-how-big-business-lost-americans-trust
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I updated my arXiv article "How much string to string a cardioid?" (again) https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15101. It now has a new result. For a "nice" number (like a prime number) of points n in a circle of radius r (and any multiplicative factor a), the amount of string required is approximately 4nr/π! For instance, the examples above have n=83 and, say, r=5 cm. The sum of the lengths of the line segments is exactly 10cot(π/166)=528.331 cm. The approximation formula gives 4*83*5/π=528.394 cm. (There's a slightly more complicated approximation formula that works for any n.)
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Free #ebooks for a limited time. Get in!!
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-ten-free-ebooks-for-getting-free
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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.
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
