Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🇺🇸 📖 🎥 **Jeffrey Rosen on The Pursuit of Liberty**
"_Jeffrey Rosen talked about his book, The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America._"
#Video length: forty-seven minutes and two seconds.
🔗 https://www.c-span.org/program/washington-journal/jeffrey-rosen-on-the-pursuit-of-liberty/668129.
#History #Histodons #Politics #USPol #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**Oldest coin ever found in Saxony: 2,200-year-old Celtic gold “Rainbow Cup” unearthed near Leipzig**
"_It is classified as a Celtic quarter stater, dated to the 3rd century BCE, and was likely minted in northern Bohemia, one of the main Celtic centers at that time._"
🔗 https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/oldest-coin-ever-found-in-saxony/.
#History #Celtic #Gold #Coin #Saxony #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Numismatics
📖 **Horrific massacre that fueled drive to end slave trade**
"_New history traces nightmare voyage, high-profile British trial over insurance claim to collect for jettisoned ‘cargo’_"
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This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”" www.prb.org/resources/se...
**Earliest Chinese writing possibly unearthed in Hubei**
"_The Hubei Daily reported that the forms of these characters are nearly identical to those found in oracle bone inscriptions, demonstrating that 7,000 years ago, early inhabitants of the region already possessed a relatively sophisticated concept of civilization._"
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**How Louisiana Managed to Boost Reading Scores**
"_Louisiana began requiring K-3 teachers and school administrators to get professional development in the science of reading, an evidence-based early literacy approach. The state also required more interventions for young kids not performing at grade level_"
🔗 https://www.governing.com/policy/how-louisiana-managed-to-boost-reading-scores.
📚 📰 🇺🇸 **We Used to Read Things in This Country**
"_For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education. As primary and secondary schools prepare to push AI on students, higher-education funding is basically being eliminated._"
🔗 https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack.
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How Math Helps Us Map The World [NPR Science Friday]
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https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/mapmatics-math-maps/ <-- shared link to Science Friday presentation summary page
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https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/audience-favorite-maps/ <-- shared Science Friday’s audience’s favourite maps
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/mapmatics-a-mathematician-s-guide-to-navigating-the-world-freelance-writer-paulina-rowi-324-ska/846b5df5c182c6d9 <-- shared book link, ‘‘Mapmatics: A Mathematician’s Guide to Navigating the World’
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https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/mapmatics-mapping-london-cholera/ <-- shared excerpt from ‘Mapmatics: A Mathematician’s Guide to Navigating the World’
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[this post should not be considered as an endorsement of any author, etc – although I did order the book to try and make my head hurt!]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #spatialanalysis #podcast #book #math #mathmatics #navigation #routing #inclusion #usecase #focus #science #education #publicbroadcasting #NPR #ScienceFriday
🖥️ 🧠 **AI makes you smarter but none the wiser: The disconnect between performance and metacognition**
"_In Study 1, participants (N = 246) used AI to solve 20 logical reasoning problems from the Law School Admission Test. While their task performance improved by three points compared to a norm population, participants overestimated their task performance by four points._"
Fernandes, D. et al. (2025) 'AI makes you smarter but none the wiser: The disconnect between performance and metacognition,' Computers in Human Behavior, p. 108779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2025.108779.
#Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Psychology #Metacognition #ComputerScience #Research #Academia
🧬 **Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin**
"_We have shown that the CB Sarmatians are descendants of the Sarmatians from the Ural and Kazakhstan regions, who migrated from the Carpathian foothills in present-day Romania. The descendants of the substantial CB Sarmatian population formed a significant portion of the population during the subsequent Hun era._"
Schütz, O. et al. (2025) 'Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin,' Cell, 188(15), pp. 4074-4090.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.009.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeogenetics #Science #Genetics #Migration #Academia
**How a Former Waffen-SS Officer Became an American War Hero Buried at Arlington National Cemetery**
"_...the man buried there was born Lauri Allan Törni in Viipuri, Finland, on May 28, 1919, fought for three nations across three decades, and remains the only known former Waffen-SS member interred at Arlington — a legendary soldier who became a U.S. Army Special Forces hero._"
**Retired public school teacher leaves UCLA a $4.2 million estate gift to support students**
_“Her great focus — her great joy — was always in educating young people,” said Kornarens. “We’d be sitting in her home and she would say, look around you: Everything I have is all for the children.”_
🔗 https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/retired-public-school-teacher-leaves-ucla-4-million-estate-gift
🖥️ 🇺🇸 📰 **AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed**
"_We also analyze 45K opinion pieces from Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, finding that they are 6.4 times more likely to contain AI-generated content than news articles from the same publications, with many AI-flagged op-eds authored by prominent public figures._"
Russell, J. et al. (2025) AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18774.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Newspapers #Media
**Arizona marks the spot: Locating the first European settlement in the American Southwest**
"_At Suya there is evidence for a pitched battle, consistent with documentary accounts. This marks this conflict as the first successful Native American uprising in the continental US. This distinction results from the fact that Spaniards did not return to what would become southern Arizona for 150 years, although they would probe and settle other portions of the American Southwest later in the sixteenth century._"
#History #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Arizona #America
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I love this.
If you live anywhere in the dark blue areas, you are closer to outer space (defined by the Kármán line) than you are to the nearest seashore.
source: u/Many-Excitement3246
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1oizo2j/space_is_a_lot_closer_than_most_people_realize/ #space #science #maps #nature
**Oxford affirms commitment to knowledge by outsourcing it entirely to ChatGPT**
"_AI has no original thoughts—only regurgitated human ones which are always easy to spot. It is a trademark of AI that its work is riddled with obvious tautology, salient truisms, and subtle yet perceptible circumlocution._"
🔗 https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2025/10/28/https-www-oxfordstudent-com-2025-10-28-auto-draft/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Knowledge #Education #Learning
🇦🇺 **All fail Caesar: students at eight schools taught wrong topic for final year 12 history exam**
"_Students were meant to study Julius Caesar, but the affected pupils instead learned about his nephew Augustus, according to the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority._"
**Reagan’s Words on Tariffs**
🔗 https://www.factcheck.org/2025/10/reagans-words-on-tariffs/.
🇺🇸 **A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5587824/confederate-statue-albert-pike-trump.
#History #Histodons #Culture #Confederacy #USA #US #UnitedStates
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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