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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📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/12/nx-s1-5454723-e1/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading.
_What do you think?_
#NPR #Reading #Audiobooks #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AudiobookLibrary.jpg.
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Linux now owns 5% of the desktop OS market.
And no, that’s not counting ChromeOS—even though it runs a Linux kernel and uses a Linux userland, but let’s not start that fight today.
Still, I can’t help wondering: how much of that growth is just gamers? It’s hard to ignore the timing. Linux starts climbing right as the Steam Deck blows up. That’s not a fluke. That’s momentum.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linuxs-ascendancy-charting-open-source-surge-desktop-os-arena
And no, that’s not counting ChromeOS—even though it runs a Linux kernel and uses a Linux userland, but let’s not start that fight today.
Still, I can’t help wondering: how much of that growth is just gamers? It’s hard to ignore the timing. Linux starts climbing right as the Steam Deck blows up. That’s not a fluke. That’s momentum.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linuxs-ascendancy-charting-open-source-surge-desktop-os-arena
🇫🇷 **People In France Want Fewer Children**
A good piece of parenting #advice.
Let Your Kid Climb That Tree https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/07/wild-free-play-children-mobility/683482/?gift=NBdGSmKfDQzLc1B6N1F-g...
🇪🇺 🎙️ **What makes population statistics unique?**
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Anna Roemers Visscher engraved one of her own poems on a wine glass as a gift for Constantijn Huygens. The verses: her pen has run dry, and her mind has turned to rust. She asks him to fetch her some water from Helicon. (1619, Rijksmuseum, BK-1983-15)
🇨🇳 **How the Growth of Chinese Research Is Bringing Western Publishing to Breaking Point**
Afternoon all.
**The Ancient Machine That Measured Time With Water**
"_In the 3rd century BCE, in the city of Alexandria, a brilliant Greek inventor named Ctesibius created a water-powered timekeeping device, so precise it remained unmatched for the next 1,800 years, until the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656._"
#Video length: ten minutes and seventeen seconds.
**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/
🇺🇸 **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
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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