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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🔴 Magnetic North Pole moves closer to Russia in way never seen before by scientists
Jabed Ahmed
"The magnetic pole moved along the northern Canadian shore for centuries, Dr Brown said. It drifted into the Arctic Ocean in the 1990s, and after that, it accelerated and headed towards Siberia."
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/magnetic-north-pole-russia-geology-b2648342.html
#NorthPole #Russia #Arctic #Geology #Science @geology @science
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A stunning #IceAge masterpiece: a big cat (thought to be a snow leopard) carved in mammoth ivory more some 40,000 years ago! Length 8.7 cm, found at the Vogelherd Cave on the Swabian Jura.
On display at Museum Universität Tübingen
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🔴 🗺 Map of Hindoostan, Farther India, China, and Tibet.
https://archive.org/details/dr_map-of-hindoostan-farther-india-china-and-tibet-constructed--engraved-4564067 ~via @internetarchive. #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #History #India #China #Asia #Europe #C19th #19thCentury #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
Credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
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Discover a treasure trove of historical maps at Old Maps Online! 🗺️ From the 17th century to the 19th, explore the rich cartographic heritage and see how our world has evolved. Perfect for history buffs and researchers alike! 🌍✨ Check it out here:
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New open-access journal launched: Public Humanities.
🔴 🇯🇵 J. R. Seeley And Japan's Pacific Expansion
"Korhonen's essay began with a striking claim:
The first person ever to use the term Pacific Age was the Japanese political economist Inagaki Manjirō. Inagaki studied the history of Great Britain's expansionary policies under the guidance of the British historian John Robert Seeley at Cambridge University during the late 1880s. Seeley had been influenced by the German geographer Carl Ritter. Through Inagaki a certain style of European nineteenth-century visionary rhetoric was introduced into discussions about the Pacific future. That is an interesting point in itself, but even more interesting are the shifts in perspective that resulted from this transference of concepts into a different context."
DUSINBERRE, M. (2021) ‘J. R. SEELEY AND JAPAN’S PACIFIC EXPANSION’, The Historical Journal, 64(1), pp. 70–97. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X19000591.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Japan #Pacific #Europe #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
When you are in for a penny, you are usually in for a pound.
🔴 📖 🇮🇸 55% of the population reads 30 minutes a day
"The nation reads or listens to an average of 2.6 books per month, compared to 2.4 books last year. 55% of the population spends 30 minutes or more reading daily, while 15% do not read or listen to books."
#Read #Reading #Listening #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #AudioBooks #Bookstodon #Iceland @bookstodon
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King Arthur left an ancient trail across Britain. Experts say it offers clues about the truth behind the myth
https://www.cnn.com/travel/king-arthur-tintagel-wales-cornwall-celtic-britain?cid=ios_app
🔴 🗺️ Franco-American Maps of the Revolution
Posted by: Carissa Pastuch
"This remarkable collection eponymously named the “Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, papers, 1777–94,” is comprised of correspondence, histories, papers, and maps that belonged to the commander-in-chief of the French expeditionary army (1780–82) during the American Revolution—French General Rochambeau (1725–1807)."
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/11/franco-american-maps/
#Map #Maps #Cartography #C18th #18thCentury #History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons
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As a tiny action to encourage the spread of evidence-based thinking, I'm providing free access to the Science Communication Fundamentals chapter of my book Building Science Graphics. It includes links to the work of lots of thoughtful people. Please share. https://www.buildingsciencegraphics.com/science-communication-fundamentals
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My calendar tells me that on this day in 1763, Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon began to survey their famous line. I am directing you to this #Commonplace piece on the line and more by Ed Gray. Ed tragically passed away last year just after completing this piece. #history #histodons https://commonplace.online/article/mason-dixon-lines/
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I’m curious… which feed do you spend most of your Mastodon time in?
I’m curious how these choices (maybe connected to the size of your instance?) influence Masto experience and attitudes/approaches to moderation.
Your comments very welcome (as are boosts for a wider sample)
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Mastodon is benefitting from the #X exodus (eXodus?) too: The official app downloads are up 47% on iOS and 17% on Android. Sign-ups are up approx. 27% compared to previous month with about 90K new accounts, while the MAU has jumped to 894K (across all Mastodon servers).
Since the fifth century of the common era every imperial hegemon has tried to avoid the fate that befell the Roman Empire.
#History #Imperialism #Imperium #Colonisation #Colony #Empire
I enjoy looking at city skylines at night whether that be #video or still #photography.
#Image attribution: Canary_Wharf_at_night,_from_Shadwell.jpg: Dave Papederivative work: Pointillist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Canary_Wharf_at_night%2C_from_Shadwell_cropped.jpg.
Will we ever witness a #Bluesky #migration wave to #Mastodon?
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Companies building AI-powered tech are using your posts. Here’s how to opt out https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/15/x-ai-gmail-meta-privacy-settings #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Socialmedia #Technology #Snapchat #LinkedIn #Internet #Privacy #Google #Gmail #Meta #X
🔴 AIs show a CV racial bias and absolutely no one is surprised
Mihai Andrei
"Across three million resume-job comparisons, resumes with white-associated names were favored by the AI models in 85% of cases. In contrast, resumes with black-associated names were selected only 8.6% of the time."
🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/ai-racial-bias-cv/
#LLMS #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Bias #Ethics #CV #Jobs #Race #Discrimination #Racism @ai
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
