Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🔴 **Welcome**
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**Strabo: The First Geographer**
"_As the father of descriptive geography, Strabo of Amasia provides a unique view of the early Roman Empire._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/strabo-first-geographer.
#History #Histodons #Geography #RomanEmpire #Ancient #Greece #Literature
🇬🇧 🩺 🖥️ ** How are GPs using AI? Insights from the front line**
"_Of the 2,108 GP survey respondents, 598 (28%) said they currently use AI tools in their clinical practice._"
Kumpunen S, Lobont C, Garrard L, Fisher D, Lau R, Fallica G and Fisher R (2025) How are GPs using AI? Insights from the front line. Research report, Nuffield Trust. https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/how-are-gps-using-ai-insights-from-the-front-line.
#Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Health #Medicine #UK #UnitedKingdom
🇩🇰 📖 🔭 **The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe**
"_The Lord of Uraniborg is a comprehensive biography of Tycho Brahe, father of modern astronomy, famed alchemist and littérateur of the sixteenth-century Danish Renaissance._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/lord-of-uraniborg/06D94F2184A543176965B1D026B41D31.
#History #Denmark #Science #Astronomy #HistSci #Nonfiction #Biography #TychoBrahe #Books #Bookstodon
#Image attribution: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_de_Gheyn_Ii_-_Portrait_of_Tycho_Brahe,_astronomer_(without_a_hat)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg.
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3 Dec 1560: b. Jan Gruter in Antwerp to an English mother, Catharina Tishem from Norwich. He studied in Caius college Cambridge for a time. Latin and Dutch poet, philologist, and eventually University Librarian of Heidelberg. (Rijkmuseum)
📖 **History of the last survivors of the Atlantic slave trade named winner of Wolfson History Prize 2025**
📖 **The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World**
"_A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world._"
🔗 https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278370.
#Slavery #History #Histodons #Politics #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**Smartphones at age 12 linked to worse health**
"_Kids who owned a smartphone at age 12 were found to have about 31% higher odds of depression, 40% higher odds of obesity and 62% higher odds of insufficient sleep than their peers who didn't have one._"
🔗 https://www.axios.com/2025/12/01/smartphones-age-12-worse-health-study.
🌡️ 🌍 **New study warns of 'creeping catastrophy' as climate change drives a global rise in infectious diseases**
"_Participants reported that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create an escalating health crisis that could become a ‘creeping catastrophe’ if left unaddressed._"
#News #Research #Study #Science #Epidemiology #Health #Medicine #Climate #ClimateChange
#Image attribution: James Gathany, USCDCP, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosquito_on_human_skin.jpg.
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More reasons to ban screens in the classroom: significant improvements in student test scores in the second year of the ban after that initial adjustment period. Cellphone bans in schools also significantly reduce student unexcused absences
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34388
📚 **MIT Press: new books for December 2025**
**Roman-era ink reveals surprising chemical complexity**
"_University of Évora archaeologist César Oliveira, the lead author of the new study, says the ink’s basic ingredients were as expected, but ‘the surprising element is the intentional inclusion of iron-gall ink constituents, creating a hybrid of carbon-based and metal-based ingredients’. The tannin from oak galls combined with iron salts during the ink-making process to create an intense black or dark purple ink._"
**Explaining the Tides Before Newton**
"_Astronomical explanations for tides, usually credited to Isaac Newton, can be traced to thinkers like Strabo and Pliny in the Classical era._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/explaining-the-tides-before-newton/.
#History #Science #HistSci #Oceans #Physics
#Image attribution: Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Komos_site_baie_Cr%C3%A8te.jpg.
🏴 **We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals**
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A humanities degree is still a smart investment|Opinion
https://share.inquirer.com/8dVqH3
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Oxford picks 'rage bait' as its word of the year. But what does it mean?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/oxford-picks-rage-bait-word-year/story?id=127998763&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into News @news-thenewsdesk
🇬🇧 **New analysis: 800,000 under-5s using social media**
"_Data from Ofcom found that 37 per cent of parents of three to five-year-olds say their child uses at least one social media app or site, up from to 29 per cent in 2023._"
🔗 https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/newsroom/under-5s-using-social-media.
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From University Press of Kansas:
Now in Paperback! Rural Rebellion: How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold, with a new preface by the author Ross Benes
or call 800-848-6224, and use code: UPKHOLIDAY25 at checkout to receive 40% off. Hurry, this sale ends December 26, 2025!
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Beginning with some self-promotion 😊
My book, along with the entire catalog, at the University of Virginia Press is 50% off through Cyber Monday with code 10TURKEY.
I explain how mapmakers and merchants and many more made sense of the new global encounters in the sixteenth century.
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All Cornell University Press books are 44% off through December 5 with code 9WINTER.
Cornell has a wonderful series in #Russian and #Eurasian studies. #Soviet and post-Soviet societies and questions of all types.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501781872/encountering-race-in-albania
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UVA Press has excellent books in many categories, including Early America, African-American history and, of course, #CivilWar history. Not to mention the Studies in Early Modern German History series, including this one-of-a-kind diary of an executioner in Nuremberg in the sixteenth century.
https://upress.virginia.edu/title/4975/
All 50% off through Monday with code 10TURKEY
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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.
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