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Not a bot; a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; married; father; a very very slow reader; barely reaching up to the level of mediocrity; an ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, sciences, books and maps related. Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions. Expect many typing errors.
Addendum: for those wondering, I do not physically resemble a fountain pen.
Joined Nov 2022
@proseandpassion For a certain cohort of owners you are probably correct. There is another cohort that I have seen, those who use the vehicle as a status symbol and a way of expressing their inner id.
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@bibliolater when I stare at them furiously I often spot a driver who may be feeling vulnerable (small, elderly, woman, and/or minority) so my guess is that the extra safety for people inside is a key motif, even though it is bought at the expense of the safety of everybody else outside the vehicle. Which is why I really think we need to #banSUVs because otherwise ppl will always choose their own safety over that of others.
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Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000802
@proseandpassion Why would anyone really need a ‘Chelsea tractor’ in a congested urban environment when their connection to the countryside is at best minimal is beyond me.
🇵🇹 Currently #AmReading 'A #History of #Portugal and the #Portuguese #Empire Volume One' authored by #AnthonyDisney. What #nonfiction #book or #books will you be #reading this #weekend?
@jasohill How many of those who supported #Brexit really understood the implications of their vote? Especially those Britons who were #migrants to the #EU in places like the #CostaDelSol.
🏴 "These sources promise the potential to explore fascinatingly-detailed stories of the nation’s fluctuating prosperity, of industrial and agricultural development and decline, and of changing fashions and tastes." https://blog.history.ac.uk/2024/01/unlocking-the-records-of-londons-medieval-foreign-trade/ #History #Histodon #Histodons #London #Medieval #Medievodons #England #Trade @histodon @histodons @medievodons
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Official CB FX Reserves: The dollar currently comprises 59% of foreign denominated currency reserves. This compares to an 86% peak in 1977, chart @GoldmanSachs
@penwing I have spent many a Saturday morning in the same manner.
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German inventor and craftsman Johannes Gutenberg died #OTD in 1468.
His early printing process, and what texts he printed with movable type, are not known in great detail. His later Bibles were printed in such a way as to have required large quantities of type, some estimates suggesting as many as 100,000 individual sorts. In the following decades, punches and copper matrices became standardized in the rapidly disseminating printing presses across Europe. via @wikipedia
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Algebra ain't what you think it is. New post in my Mathematics Outreach Project blog, where I look at those recurring Internet debates where people get different answers to a simple arithmetic problem, such as "8 ÷ 2(2 + 2)". https://sumop.org/blog/
#News: #CarlWeathers has passed away. For all of his achievements in #sports and #acting, on a personal note I will always remember him from my childhood as the #actor who played Apollo Creed.
"Climate change is arguably one of the greatest challenges today. Although the scientific consensus is that human activities caused climate change, a substantial part of the population downplays or denies human responsibility. In this registered report, we present causal evidence on a potential explanation for this discrepancy: motivated reasoning."
Stoetzer, L.S., Zimmermann, F. A representative survey experiment of motivated climate change denial. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01910-2 #Report #DOI #Climate #ClimateChange #Research #Behaviour #Academia #Academic #Academics @climate
"The researchers conclude that climate-related stress could trigger a pandemic outbreak or intensify disease outbreaks - for example, because food is scarce and people become more susceptible for diseases." https://www.marum.de/en/Discover/climate-and-pandemics.html #Climate #ClimateChange #Paleoclimatology #Research #Science #Oceanography #Environment #Pandemic @science @climate
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Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev died #OTD in 1907.
He is best known for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the Periodic Law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known elements, such as the valence & atomic weight of uranium, but also to predict the properties of three elements that were yet to be discovered (germanium, gallium and scandium). via @wikipedia
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A fine piece of detective work has Daniel Herbert as the creator of Australia's first statute:
Tasmania hails Australia’s first colonial statue as a piss-take – and an ‘extraordinary political statement’
His Digital Panopticon page:
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The inflation paradox. Today's cartoon by Daniel Boris. More cartoons: https://cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&sort=created&order=desc
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from "Byzantine Astronomy from A.D. 1300" by Emmanuel A. Paschos (1998)
https://lss.fnal.gov/archive/other/do-th-98-18.pdf?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
"This article aims to complicate the origin story of biological anthropology by examining how colonial subjects were involved in the development, testing, and refinement of racial theory, and thus of biological anthropology itself. Taking India as an example, I trace how Indians and the caste system were first the subjects and eventually the interlocutors of racial scientific theory and testing."
Weaver, L.J. (2022) 'The Laboratory of Scientific Racism: India and the origins of Anthropology,' Annual Review of Anthropology, 51(1), pp. 67–83. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-041320-024344. #DOI #Article #History #Anthropology #Race #Racism #ScientificRacism #India #Colonialism #Science #Biology #Academia #Academic #Academics @biology @science @anthropology
Not a bot; a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; married; father; a very very slow reader; barely reaching up to the level of mediocrity; an ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, sciences, books and maps related. Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions. Expect many typing errors.
Addendum: for those wondering, I do not physically resemble a fountain pen.
Joined Nov 2022
