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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🗺️ 🎥 **SECRET MAPS – Exhibition Private View**
"_Curators Tom Harper, Nick Dykes and Magdalena Peszko lead us into the hidden landscapes of history, where maps don’t just show the world — they shape it, conceal it and reveal its silent truths._"
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfrsaX7lABk.
#Video #History #Maps #Cartography #Library #UK #UnitedKingdom
📚 **Want to read more in 2026? Here’s how to revive your love of books**
🇺🇸 📖 ** The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth Century Immigration Debate**
"_Kim’s analysis shows that throughout US history, the opportunity for belonging for some immigrants was predicated on the exclusion of others._"
🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo257660942.html.
#USA #UnitedStates #History #Sociology #Race #Ethnicity #Immigration #Migration #Nonfiction #Books #Academia
**The Earliest Vegetal Motifs in Prehistoric Art: Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking**
"_The depictions of flower petals in the geometric sequence of the numbers 4, 8, 16 and 32, as well as 64 flowers in another type of arrangement, point to arithmetical knowledge._"
Garfinkel, Y., Krulwich, S. The Earliest Vegetal Motifs in Prehistoric Art: Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking. J World Prehist 38, 14 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-025-09200-9.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #History #Maths #Mathematics #Mesopotamia #Pottery #Art #Culture #Academia #Research
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In Pennsylvania, data center construction is threatening environmental degradation in the southeast, while oil and gas development extracts from and exploits the environment in the southwest
https://www.briefecology.com/p/data-centers-development-and-dispossession
#ai #environment #fossilfuels #climateChange #pennsylvania #ecology
🇨🇭 **Volunteers find two of the oldest gold coins in Switzerland**
#Gold #Coins #Numismatics #History #Switzerland #Archaeology
🎥 **I’m begging you to write essays**
📚 **Books by Princeton professors make year-end ‘best-of’ lists**
🔗 https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/12/19/books-princeton-professors-make-year-end-best-lists.
🇨🇿 **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.
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
