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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Joined Nov 2022
🇺🇸 🚗 **‘Finances are getting tighter’: US car repossessions surge as more Americans default on auto loans**
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/17/us-car-repossessions-economy.
#News #Cars #Finance #Debt #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates
📖 **Settler Colonialism as a Structure? Structural Logics, Long-Term Patterns, and Critical Reflections**
"_Drawing on diverse case studies – from ancient Mediterranean societies to contemporary visions of settling Mars – contributors critically examine key questions: What defines settler colonialism? How does access to land shape its dynamics? What socio-political and cultural forces underpin settler expansion?_"
Pelgrom, J. and Six, C. (2025) 'Settler Colonialism as a Structure? Structural Logics, Long-Term Patterns, and Critical Reflections,' books.ugp.rug.nl https://doi.org/10.21827/68db7d21df8a1.
#OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #Academia #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Nearly 70% of US adults considered obese under proposed new definition, study finds**
"_The new approach would label someone as being obese if they have a BMI over 40 or if they have a high BMI plus at least one sign of excess body fat, for example a large waist, high waist-to-hip ratio, or high waist-to-height ratio. People could also be classed as obese if they have two signs of excess fat even with a "normal" BMI, or if scans show they have excessive body fat._"
#News #Science #Study #Research #Health #Obesity #USA #US #UnitedStates
🖥️ **Opinion: embracing AI undermines academia.
"_The most glaring issue with AI is that it is often factually wrong._"
🔗 https://cherwell.org/2025/10/17/embracing-ai-undermines-academia/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning #University #Academia #Opinion
🖥️ **This $1.5b AI Company Goes Bankrupt—Turns Out It Was Never AI… Just 700 Indian Engineers**
**Loyalists, race and Atlantic Canada**
"_Learn about how the resettlement of American Loyalists after the War of Independence reshaped the British Empire._"
🔗 https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/loyalists-race-and-atlantic-canada.
🇹🇷 **Six New Aramaic Inscriptions Unearthed at Ancient City of Zernaki Tepe in Eastern Türkiye**
🇺🇸 **75% of Americans report soaring prices as Trump claims inflation ‘over’**
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/16/inflation-economic-pessimism-poll.
📖 **Incredibly rare 17th-century book found in Michigan State University donation bin: ‘It stood out right away’**
"_MSU concluded the book was Theologia Moralis, a text on moral theology by Paul Laymann, an Austrian man part of the Jesuits, a Roman Catholic religious order. The book was produced in the Belgian city of Liège by the printer Guillaume Ouwerx in 1672, 37 years after the author’s death._"
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🏴 **James Stirling library to be auctioned in Edinburgh**
"_Stirling’s copy of Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which is generally considered to be the most important scientific book ever published, is another highlight of the auction. It’s estimated to fetch between £10,000 and £20,000._"
🔗 https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25548234.james-stirling-library-auctioned-edinburgh/
#Edinburgh #Scotland #News #History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Auction #Books
📖 **Alexander the Great in Jerusalem**
"_But did Alexander the Great visit Jerusalem, or didn’t he? That is the single most frequently asked question when people hear the title of my new book, Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth & History._"
**Lost Data in Electron Microscopy**
"_Of the more than 150,000 electron microscopy images evaluated in this study, only approximately 3500 (just over 2%) were made available in publications. For the analyzed dataset, the amount of lost data in electron microscopy can be estimated as >90% (in terms of data being recorded but not being published in peer-reviewed literature)._"
Ivanova, Nina M., Alexey S. Kashin, and Valentine P. Ananikov. 2025. "Lost Data in Electron Microscopy" Chemistry 7, no. 5: 160. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemistry7050160.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Chemistry #Data #Images #Academia
🌍 🌡️ **57 Extra Superhot Days A Year? New Study Says That's Where The World Is Headed, But It Could Be Worse**
_“There will be pain and suffering because of climate change,” said Climate Central Vice President for Science Kristina Dahl, a report co-author._
🔗 https://weather.com/news/climate/news/2025-10-16-study-says-world-could-add-57-superhot-days-a-year.
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Livestream | Exploring Lindisfarne's iconic early Medieval monastery raided by Vikings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRs4NTxa9YA
📖 **Was ‘Aeneid’ critiquing or glorifying empire?**
_Virgil doesn’t, by any means, invent Aeneas, but he gives Aeneas, who was a relatively minor figure in Homer’s “Iliad,” new primacy at the center of his epic. During Virgil’s time, Augustus emerged, after the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C., as the first emperor of Rome, and it was as this new regime was being consolidated in the 20s B.C. that Virgil wrote “The Aeneid.”_
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/was-aeneid-critiquing-or-glorifying-empire/.
**Kant on language, culture and politics**
"_Indeed, he seems not to have anticipated the role that the concept of language was to play in twentieth century Anglo-American analytical philosophy, nor does he foresee the sometimes-devastating role that linguistic and ethnic national divisions were to play in nineteenth and twentieth century European politics._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/10/16/kant-on-language-culture-and-politics/.
📖 **Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ **
"_Writing in 93/4 ce, Josephus composed an account of Jesus known as the Testimonium Flavianum. Despite this being the oldest description of Jesus written by a non-Christian, scholars have long doubted its authenticity due to the alleged pro-Christian claims it contains. The present book, however, authenticates Josephus’ authorship and then reveals a startling discovery._"
Schmidt, T C, Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford, 2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 5 May 2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191957697.001.0001, accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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🖥️ 🇰🇷 **AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea**
🔗 https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #SouthKorea
📚 **BOOK REVIEW: A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis that Spurred the American Revolution by Andrew Lawler**
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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