Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🇨🇭 🏦 🇺🇸 **Swiss National Bank denies currency manipulation after being put on U.S. watch list**
#Business #Finance #Currency #Forex #Switzerland #USA #US #UnitedStates
Morning all.
**Vikings in Cornwall?**
#Video length: one hour and eleven minutes.
📖 **The Foundations of Geometry by David Hilbert**
“_Read or download for free_”
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17384.
#ProjectGutenberg #Read #Download #Ebook #Bookstodon #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Geometry @bookstodon
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Race, ethnicity don’t match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study
https://www.science.org/content/article/race-ethnicity-don-t-match-genetic-ancestry-according-large-u-s-study
Data from the All of Us program confirm what many geneticists have long promoted
Full paper here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002929725001739 (paywalled)
🇺🇸 **Is It Really The End Of The Bromance?**
Just arrived home after spending the day away from the news. It seems that the bromance that was the Trump-Musk relationship has ruptured. Who could have envisaged this outcome at the start when all those hundreds of millions of dollars were first donated by Musk to Trump's MAGA presidential campaign?
#Bromance #Elon #Musk #ElonMusk #Trump #DonaldTrump #Politics #USPol #US #USA #UnitedStates
Evening all.
Revealed: Elon Musk wanted to stay in White House but was rejected https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/93ea18ab2ba8f028
🇬🇧 **Five outstanding manuscripts acquired for the nation**
“_Together, these manuscripts shed exceptional light on the study of Hebrew by Christian monks in medieval England, on the administration of a medieval English town, and on spiritual devotion in medieval England and Ireland._”
#Manuscripts #Medieval #Medievodons #History #Histodons @medievodons @histodons
🇺🇸 **When the Founding Fathers Spoke Yiddish**
🔗 https://mishpacha.com/when-the-founding-fathers-spoke-yiddish/.
**Nearly 40% of the world’s glaciers are already doomed, scientists say**
"_Researchers estimate glaciers will eventually lose 39% of their mass relative to 2020, a trend that is already irreversible no matter what comes next and will likely contribute a 113-millimeter increase to global sea level rise._"
🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/02/climate/worlds-glaciers-future-study-intl-scli.
#Climate #ClimateChange #Envirnoment #Glaciers #Science #Research @climatechange @science
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 **When Canada was the Promised Land: What Canada Taught America about Freedom and Inclusive Democracy**
#History #Histodons #Canada #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodons
📚 **6 Ways to Get Out of a Reading Slump**
#Video length: nine minutes and forty-six seconds.
**Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts**
“_We found that learning constrained to the language domain captures human-level conceptual representation in non-sensorimotor dimensions such as valence and emotional arousal but yields impoverished representation of sensorimotor knowledge._”
Xu, Q., Peng, Y., Nastase, S.A. et al. Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02203-8.
#OpenAcces #OA #Article #DOI #Language #Linguistics #Science #Technology #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Psycholofy #Academia #Academics @ai @psychology
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📊 #MakeoverMonday – 2025 W20 | The Religious Composition of the World’s Migrants
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🔗: https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/MakeoverMonday/2025/mm_2025_20.html
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#rstats | #DataFam | #dataviz | #ggplot2
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📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W22 | Project Gutenberg
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🔗: https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/TidyTuesday/2025/tt_2025_22.html
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#rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
🇬🇷 **Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind**
Hannah Ritchie & Pablo Rosado
“_The chart shows that just over a decade ago, almost half of the country’s power came from coal. This has now fallen to 6%._
_Solar and wind have replaced it; their share has tripled in the last decade; when combined, they’ve become the largest source._”
#Data #DataViz #Energy #Coal #SolarEnergy #Wind #Renewables #Greece
📱 **Your smartphone is a parasite, according to evolution**
“_Many of us are hostage to our phones – and it’s not unlike having head lice._”
🖋️ **The black-letter, or Gothic, style (9th to 15th century)**
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/art/calligraphy/The-black-letter-or-Gothic-style-9th-to-15th-century.
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs 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.
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