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"In this paper we examine multiple discrete emotions people experience in reaction to climate change, and assess the strength of these emotions as predictors of support for different types of mitigation and adaptation policies."

Myers TA, Roser-Renouf C, Leiserowitz A, Maibach E (2024) Emotional signatures of climate policy support. PLOS Climate 3(3): e0000381. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0 @climatechange

"Can you be authentic if you lie about what you value, believe, or feel? This brief article explores this question and the unique stances on honesty that different notions of authenticity take."

Leuenberger, M. (2024) โ€˜The Authentic Liarโ€™, Think, 23(67), pp. 27โ€“30. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S1477175623000 @philosophy

"Few Philosophers have gone down in history quite like Diogenes the Cynic. He was a rebel, a vagabond, a beggar, and a hero." youtu.be/OZyM4h2UEjc @philosophy

"In this paper, I examine if and how Aristotleโ€™s philosophy of geometry can account for the geometersโ€™ practices and way of talking."

Chiara Martini, Geometrical Changes: Change and Motion in Aristotleโ€™s Philosophy of Geometry, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, October 2023, Pages 385โ€“394, doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoad018 @philosophy

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Hey everybody, @rogueclassicist is back posting everything #classics in the fedi. Get 'em while they're hot!

#ancientHistory #ancientGreece #ancientRome #archaeology #RomanEmpire

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#archaeology #prehistory #ManmadeStructures

'The discovery of a 7,000-year-old well in Czechiaโ€™s Pardubice region six years ago, thought to be the oldest surviving man-made wooden object in the world, thrilled excavators. Now experimental archaeologists from the Vลกestary Prehistoric Archaeology Park near Hradec Krรกlovรฉ are making a copy of the well, using prehistoric tools and methods, that will be displayed alongside the original.'

english.radio.cz/carpenters-ma

"Astronomer Fred Hoyle supposedly coined the catchy term to ridicule the theory of the Universeโ€™s origins โ€” 75 years on, itโ€™s time to set the record straight." doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-008 @science

"Here we combine genetic evidence and palaeoecological models to infer the geographic location that acted as the Hub for our species during the early phases of colonisation of Eurasia."

Vallini, L., Zampieri, C., Shoaee, M.J. et al. The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal. Nat Commun 15, 1882 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-461 @archaeodons @anthropology @biology @science

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