Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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.
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**Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers**
"_Results indicate that students with stronger verbal abilities, and who are more curious, open-minded, and intellectually rigorous, are more likely to study philosophy. Nonetheless, after accounting for such baseline differences, philosophy majors outperform all other majors on tests of verbal and logical reasoning and on a measure of valuable habits of mind._"
PRINZING, M. and VAZQUEZ, M. (2025) ‘Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers’, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2025.10007.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Philosophy #Education #Learning @philosophy
🇬🇧 🌔 🔭 **In time for the Buck Moon, the UK's Royal Observatory releases some of the best full Moon images this year**
🔗 https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/astronomy-photographer-shortlist-2025-moon-images
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18th-century French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande, who championed the positive role of women in astronomy, was born 11 July 1732 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/10/09/monsieur-joseph-jerome-lefrancois-de-lalande-et-les-dames/
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**Franklin D. Roosevelt And A Fourth Term**
"_On this day in 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt announced he would run for a fourth term as President of the United States._"
#Video length: two minutes and twenty-nine seconds.
🇺🇸 **How Americans think the U.S. compares to the rest of the world**
"_Majorities of Americans believe that the U.S. is the best or better than most countries when it comes to military strength (74%), freedom of speech (62%), religious freedom (61%), entertainment (60%), women's rights (52%), and scientific innovation (52%)._"
#Data #DataViz #Poll #USPol #Politics #USA #US #UnitedStates
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・ Rua Direita, The Main Thoroughfare of Goa ・
👤 1579-1592
🏛️ National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research ・ Bengaluru, India
Within hundred years after the arrival of Da Gama, by the end of the 16th C., Goa had become a city bustling with many nationalities seeking their fortunes. John Huygen van Linschoten, a Dutch aide to the Portuguese Archbishop in Goa described (...)
#portugal #museum #history
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/rua-direita-the-main-thoroughfare-of-goa/1QGoAw37T-4X9g
**Is Google’s reign coming to an end? AI threatens the leading search engine**
**15 Wealthy & Wicked Slave Owners You Never Learned About**
🔗 https://historycollection.com/15-wealthy-wicked-slave-owners-you-never-learned-about/.
**Dark personality traits are associated with academic misconduct, frustration, negative thinking, and generative AI use habits: the case of Sichuan art universities**
"_Results showed that dark personality traits were significantly associated with academic dishonesty, anxiety, and procrastination, and that these markers of academic misbehavior were linked to increased frustration, negative thinking, and generative AI use._"
Song, J., Liu, S. Dark personality traits are associated with academic misconduct, frustration, negative thinking, and generative AI use habits: the case of Sichuan art universities. BMC Psychol 13, 633 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02949-w.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Research #Psychology #Personality #Academia #Education #Procrastination #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @psychology
**Mathematicians are chasing a number that may reveal the edge of maths**
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First thing of the day -- newly acquired #map digitized by Osher Map Library - Walter Crane's famous 1886 Imperial Federation map!!
Online at https://oshermaps.org/map/59097.0001
🖥️ **AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower/.
Afternoon all.
🇺🇸 **Trillions in new U.S. debt will push gold prices higher even without a fiscal ‘crisis’ – World Gold Council**
🌡️ **Climate change tripled heat-related deaths in early summer European heatwave**
#Heatwave #Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @climatechange
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If only more people understood that. LLMs aren't ready for serious work.
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The AI was defensive and at times accusatory and kind of gaslighting "you keep saying the paper does not exist, when I have given you the PMID and DOI and have checked that it does" (PMID was for a different paper, DOI didn't resolve).
When asked about how it checks that a paper is real, it listed the steps, but when told to recreate the steps, it obfuscated.
I find the reality distortion we're heading into and the degradation of facts by these tools to be very troubling indeed.
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A colleague showed me a disturbing interaction with Gemini (AI/LLM).
Asked for an interpretation of a scientific result, it suggested something and hallucinated a paper to support its idea (no news here). Upon repeated questioning and showing that the paper did not exist, the AI showed really disturbing behaviour.
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🇳🇴 **Lost Medieval Town at Hamar Uncovered: Excavation Confirms GPR Data**
🔗 https://www.niku.no/en/2025/07/lost-medieval-town-at-hamar-uncovered-excavation-confirms-gpr-data/.
#Medieval #Medievodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Norway @medievodons @archaeodons
**YouTube prepares crackdown on ‘mass-produced’ and ‘repetitive’ videos, as concern over AI slop grows**
#Youtube #Videos #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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