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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
🇨🇿 **Hittite-Style Carvings and Cuneiform Found in a Czech Cave: An Archaeological Puzzle from Kateřinská Cave**
**Practicalities of Letter Delivery in Antiquity**
🔗 https://brentnongbri.com/2025/12/20/practicalities-of-letter-delivery-in-antiquity/.
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Are these AI prompts damaging your thinking skills?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6xz12j6pzo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-BBCNews
🧬 **Genetic Ancestry Doesn’t Tell Your Whole Story**
🔗 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/dna-and-its-discontents/.
#Ancestry #DNA #Science #Genetics
#Image attribution: brian0918, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_animation.gif.
**Roman soldiers defending Hadrian’s Wall infected by parasites, study finds**
🇨🇦 📸 **Toronto Skyline At Night**
#Image #Photo #Photography #Skyline #Toronto #Canada
#Image attribution: TheWxResearcher, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_Skyline_at_night_2024-08-23.jpg.
💧 **The vilest of all beverages**
"_Historian Katherine Harvey explores the sometimes strange beliefs medieval people had about water, and how they informed their methods for staying healthy._"
**“Don’t Hold Back”: Swearing Improves Strength Through State Disinhibition**
"_These findings suggest that swearing promotes psychological states conducive to maximizing effort and overcoming internal constraints._"
Stephens, R., Dowber, H., Richardson, C., & Washmuth, N. B. (2025). “Don't hold back”: Swearing improves strength through state disinhibition.American Psychologist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001650.
🖥️ **Our new report: AI code creates 1.7x more problems**
"_These include business logic mistakes, incorrect dependencies, flawed control flow, and misconfigurations. Logic errors are among the most expensive to fix and most likely to cause downstream incidents._"
🔗 https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-generation-report.
🎥 **The Simplest Unsolved Ancient Problem**
"_Ancient Greek mathematicians wrestled for centuries with a seemingly pointless problem that led them to rich mathematical discoveries._"
🇺🇸 **Trillion-Dollar Interest Payments Are the New Norm**
"_As the national debt continues to climb toward record levels – totaling 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 – interest on the national debt has also risen significantly. Just five years ago, in FY 2020, net interest totaled $345 billion; in FY 2025, it totaled $970 billion – nearly three times as large._"
🔗 https://www.crfb.org/blogs/trillion-dollar-interest-payments-are-new-norm.
📚 **Are we falling out of love with nonfiction?**
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/17/are-we-falling-out-of-love-with-nonfiction.
**Social Media Detox and Youth Mental Health**
"_ A 1-week social media detox intervention significantly reduced symptoms of anxiety by 16.1%, depression by 24.8%, and insomnia by 14.5%._"
Calvert E, Cipriani M, Dwyer B, et al. Social Media Detox and Youth Mental Health. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(11):e2545245. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.45245.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #SocialMedia #Health #MentalHealth #Medicine #Academia #Research
🖥️ **Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education**
"_Learning is not a problem to be solved; it’s a process to be undertaken. There are students who feel that they are being robbed of an educational experience, because AI has fundamentally shifted the culture of education._"
🔗 https://www.publicbooks.org/four-frictions-or-how-to-resist-ai-in-education/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning
📚 **The best of 2025**
"_The books that everyone was talking about this year_"
🇺🇸 **America’s $38 trillion national debt ‘exacerbates generational imbalances’ with Gen Z and millennials paying the price, warns think tank**
🔗 https://fortune.com/2025/12/16/us-national-debt-generationa-imbalances-research-think-tank/.
📚 **The Complete English Literature Reading List**
🔗 https://adamgagewalker.substack.com/p/the-complete-english-literature-reading.
**How to read a poem**
"_Ideally over a lifetime, says New Yorker’s Kevin Young_"
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/12/how-to-read-a-poem/.
🎥 **Modern Myths about the Age of Homer**
"_Archaeologist Bryan Burns surveys ancient finds from Troy and Mycenae and their connection to Homeric epics, addressing common misconceptions about the Late Bronze Age in scholarship and popular culture._"
🇨🇦 🇬🇧 **Linguistic experts urge Carney government to stop using British spellings**
"_Advocates say government should utilize (not 'utilise') Canadian English in official documents_"
🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/carney-criticized-for-british-spelling-9.7015702.
#Linguistics #English #Language #Spelling #Canada #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom
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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Joined Nov 2022
