A New Map of Denmark and Sweden. (insets) Five scenes of the life of the Laplanders. North Part of Norway, Lapland, and Greenland. https://archive.org/details/dr_a-new-map-of-denmark-and-sweden-insets-five-scenes-of-the-life-of-the-la-9729016 ~via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #History #Denmark #Sweden #Norway #Lapland #Greenland #Europe #C18th #18thCentury #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
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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. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000381 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #PeerReview #DOI #Emotions #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #Politics #Policy #Academia #Academic #Academics @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) โThe Authentic Liarโ, Think, 23(67), pp. 27โ30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477175623000465 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Ethics #Philosophy #Academia #Academic #Academics @philosophy
Defining "Old Norse" https://youtu.be/qL81kCr8w-c #Video #OldNorse #Language #Linguistics @linguistics
"Few Philosophers have gone down in history quite like Diogenes the Cynic. He was a rebel, a vagabond, a beggar, and a hero." https://youtu.be/OZyM4h2UEjc #Philosophy #Video @philosophy
The joy of #writing with a fine #fountainpen can never be over estimated!
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"In this paper, I examine if and how Aristotleโs philosophy of geometry can account for the geometersโ practices and way of talking."
Chiara Martini, Geometrical Changes: Change and Motion in Aristotleโs Philosophy of Geometry, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, October 2023, Pages 385โ394, https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoad018 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #ChiaraMartini #Aristotle #Philosophy #Geometry #Maths #Math #Mathematics #STEM #Academia #Academic #Academics @philosophy
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๐ฎ๐ธ "The history and culture of Iceland in the 1950's." https://youtu.be/uig5XGKANfE #Video #History #Culture #Iceland
Swiss, Renaissance polymath, Conrad Gesner, was born 26.03.1516
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/putting-the-lead-in-your-pencil/
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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'The discovery of a 7,000-year-old well in Czechiaโs 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.'
"Astronomer Fred Hoyle supposedly coined the catchy term to ridicule the theory of the Universeโs origins โ 75 years on, itโs time to set the record straight." https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00894-z #Nature #Essay #Science #STEM #Astronomy #Cosmology #Universe @science
"The sleepy appearance of Collyweston village today belies its significance as a stage on which key events relating to the Tudor dynasty were played out." https://theconversation.com/how-henry-viiis-grandmother-used-a-palace-in-northamptonshire-to-build-the-mighty-tudor-dynasty-221275 #History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #GB #UK #UnitedKingdom #Tudor #Tudors @histodon @histodons
๐บ๐ธ "Airship picks up mail from Empire State Building (1931)." https://youtu.be/7saFU5OHAYA #Vintage #Video #History #NewYork #Transport #US #USA #UnitedStates #America
"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). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46161-7 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Research #DOI #Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Biology #Anthropology #BiologicalAnthropology #Genetics #Population #EvolutionaryGenetics #Palaeoclimate #Ancient #DNA #PopulationGenetics #Eurasia #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @anthropology @biology @science
"Petra, showing the Upper or Eastern End of the Valley. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849."
#DavidRoberts #Painting #Art #Lithograph #Petra #C19th #19thCentury
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โTruth behind the mythsโ: Amazon warrior women of Greek legend may really have existed. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/24/truth-behind-the-myths-amazon-warrior-women-of-greek-legend-may-really-have-existed #Archaeology #Classics #Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Azerbaijan #Archaeodons @archaeodons @histodon @histodons @classics
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