Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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🌍 🛢️ **Ranked: The World’s Top 25 Countries by Oil Consumption**
🔗 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-worlds-top-25-countries-by-oil-consumption/.
📰 **You are what you read: Antagonistic narcissism predicts increased preference for antisocial and reduced preference for prosocial information**
"_In two studies, we investigated how antagonistic narcissism affects one’s choice of news headlines. We also examined narcissists’ social motives, (affective) empathy, and sensation seeking as potential underlying mechanisms (S2)._"
Chen, J. et al. (2025) 'You are what you read: Antagonistic narcissism predicts increased preference for antisocial and reduced preference for prosocial information,' Journal of Research in Personality, p. 104653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104653.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Psychology #Personality #Narcissism #Empathy #News #Headlines #Academia @psychology
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"Japan suffers through its hottest summer on record"; "June to August was 2.36 degrees hotter than average", "the third straight record for summer heat".
The Japan Meteorological Agency "also indicated that the rise in temperatures could be speeding up."
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"Rates were at 1% for a full year! That had simply never occurred before in history. If you look at the late 1950s and early 1960s, rates would dip below 2%, but only for weeks at a time."
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/barry-ritholtz-causes-financial-crisis/
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**find a book you actually like in under 3 minutes**
#Video length: two minutes and forty-nine seconds.
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🖥️ **ChatGPT only talks in clichés – here’s why that’s a threat to human creativity**
"_In short, ChatGPT statistically flattened human dialogues in the context of our enquiry, replacing them with a polished, plausible but ultimately rather dry template._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #ChatGPT #Language
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#ThrowBackPaper How Alternative for Germany made radical right-wing populism almost normal in 🇩🇪 (free preprint)
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/right-wing-populism-germany-normalisation/
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"I once attended a lecture by Dirk Struik, delivered with great clarity and without notes – a remarkable performance, given that the speaker was then 104 years old!"
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/history-mathematics-robin-wilson/
📚 **10 books to read in September**
Courtesy of the LA Times:
🔗 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-09-01/books-to-read-september-2025.
#Recommendations #Nonfiction #Fiction #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
📚 **Our Culture’s Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2025 (Part 1)**
🔗 https://ourculturemag.com/2025/08/29/our-cultures-most-anticipated-books-of-fall-2025-part-1/.
📚 **New books for September 2025: On Liberalism, Somebody Should Do Something, What Is Intelligence?, and more**
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Last local currency in UK comes to an end after 17 years
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lewes-pound-local-currency-discontinued-money-b2817803.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business (UK Edition) @business-uk-edition-FlipboardUK
🏴 📖 **The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom – a deep and nuanced analysis of a complex monarch**
"_Overall, Woodman presents Æthelstan as a European king, a scholar, with ruthless ambitions and a strong streak of piety._"
#History #Histodons #England #Nonfiction #Review #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @histodons
#Image attribution: See description, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athelstan_(cropped).jpg.
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Just 9,000 years ago Britain was connected to continental Europe by an area of land called Doggerland, which is now submerged beneath the southern North Sea. Part of the reason why the UK is a world leader in off-shore windfarms.
(by @historyinmemes)
**The Mona Lisa of medieval manuscripts, as you’ve never seen it before**
"_The manuscript itself has a colourful history: it was begun around 1411 by three young artists, the Limbourg brothers, for the discerning and covetous Jean, Duc de Berry, son, brother and uncle to successive kings of France, whose reputation as a lover of books, gems, exotic objects and ‘choses estranges’ was well established in his own lifetime._"
🔗 https://apollo-magazine.com/tres-riches-heures-limbourg-brothers-chantilly-manuscript-review/.
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#AbrahamLincoln #politics #history #photography
'The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has added nearly 500 images to its online collection of high-resolution Lincoln pictures...'
"_Hayek’s abandonment of the established view on the Aristotelian roots of the Austrian school can be better understood by considering the intellectual environment of his time. His eventual adoption of Karl Popper’s point of view on Aristotle meant taking a stance against Karl Polanyi’s democratic socialism and distancing himself from Wilhelm Röpke’s Catholic conservatism_"
Karp, M. (2025) ‘HAYEK ON ARISTOTLE: THE DEBRIS OF A GENEALOGY OF MODERNITY, VIA POPPER, POLANYI, AND RÖPKE’, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 47(3), pp. 317–338. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837225000069.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Economics #Hayek #Aristotle #Academia @histodons @economics
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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