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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
"A new study published in Lancet estimates that over 100 million people in India are living with all forms of diabetes. The survey commissioned by the health ministry also found that 136 million people could be living with pre-diabetes." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0ft8kyd #Science #India
Source: https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice/status/1667495390243848193
@Edelruth This is such good advice: "Senior tip: don't wait until you retire to travel, do it while you are young, and are fit, and are willing to work in exotic places."
"..Naoíse Mac Sweeney examines why the West won’t die and, in the process, dismantles ahistorical concepts like the “clash of civilizations” and the notion of a linear progression from Greek and Roman ideals to those of our present day.." https://theamericanscholar.org/why-the-west-wont-die/ #History #Podcast #histodon #histodons #bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/TheAmScho/status/1667535840355004416
"On average, El Niño years are warmer globally than La Niña years – El Niño’s opposite. Globally, a strong El Niño can boost temperatures by about 0.7 degrees Fahrenheit (0.4 Celsius). But in North America, there is a lot of local variation." https://theconversation.com/el-nino-is-back-thats-good-news-or-bad-news-depending-on-where-you-live-205974 #Science #Weather #Climate #ElNino
Source: https://twitter.com/ConversationUS/status/1667172371646537733
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[Blog Archive]
A Short Biography of John Bachman (1790-1874)
2010. Dictionary of Early American Philosophers.
Clergyman, educator, naturalist, friend of Audubon, and enslaver...[Bachman and Audubon] united over their shared love of Natural History... collecting specimen...and disputing their divergent manners, as the ascetic Bachman often admonished Audubon for his love of “gog and wine and snuff.”
#HistSTm #Slavery #Audubon #EnvHist #EnvironmentalStudies #SouthCarolina
https://until-darwin.blogspot.com/2011/07/short-biography-of-john-bachman-1790.html
Simões, L.G., Günther, T., Martínez-Sánchez, R.M. et al. Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant. Nature (2023). https://rdcu.be/decJv #OpenAccess #OA #Biology #History #Archaeology #Science #Anthropology #Genetics #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
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@independentpen @bibliolater @histodon @histodons @anthropology best overview remains C Delano Smith in vol 1 of “The History of Cartography” - free at https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V1/Volume1.html. The Bedolini petroglyph mentioned in the article is a Bronze Age original. It’s v hard to identify a map w/out context!
"In September and October of 2018, three maps went viral on social media and the web. All of them had the same perspective, featured oceans as the main focus, and presented the oceans as one body of water." https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/756bcae18d304a1eac140f19f4d5cb3d #Map #Cartography
Source: https://twitter.com/Sean_C_Cote/status/1660445278720217090
"Those ancient humans who might have scratched directions in the sand or carved lines on wood were the first to practice the art of symbolic representation in the form of a map." https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/oldest-maps-world #History #Anthropology #Map #Cartography #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @anthropology
Source: https://twitter.com/laphamsquart/status/1666465537533313024
"Cambridge University Library Research Institute supports a portfolio of collections-based research projects". https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/research-institute/projects #Academia #Education #Research #Library
Source: https://twitter.com/crewsproject/status/1666734620077961219
Kimmo Katajala (2023) Inventing the Grand Duchy of Finland in the 1580s: early modern state formation or medieval patterns of expressing the power, Scandinavian Journal of History, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2023.2200805 #OpenAccess #OA #History #EarlyModern #Article #Scandinavia #Europe #Medieval #Finland #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Sara L. Uckelman (2023) John Eliot's Logick Primer: A Bilingual English-Massachusett Logic Textbook, History and Philosophy of Logic, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2023.2207244 #History #Philosophy #Logic #OpenAccess #OA #Article #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @philosophy
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An interesting long read on Kate Raworth, the post-growth economist who coined the term doughnut economics.
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Google’s DeepMind develops a system that writes efficient algorithms
Writing efficient code was turned into a game, and the AI played to win.
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This is a long read, and a fascinating article exposing Spanish academics that have published an unfeasible number of papers each year. As in, a paper evey couple of days.
A researcher who publishes a study every two days reveals the darker side of science
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-06-04/a-researcher-who-publishes-a-study-every-two-days-reveals-the-darker-side-of-science.html
#AcademicEthics #academia #science #research #publication #academicpublishing #papermills #MDPI
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10 Medieval Places That Don’t Exist https://www.medievalists.net/2023/06/medieval-places-dont-exist/ #geography #history #medieval
"It is clear why Smith was regarded as the central character for orthodox free marketers like Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. But is it fair to reduce a great thinker to two quotes?" https://www.thenational.scot/culture/23571844.adam-smith-greatest-economist-time-right/ #Economics #Philosophy #Scotland @economics @philosophy
Soure: https://twitter.com/Scotonomics1/status/1666134083108319252
"As of today, anthropologists believe there were at least ten different occupations of Britain in c.900,000 years of British history that featured (at least) four human species." https://www.historyhit.com/who-were-the-first-britons/ #Ancient #History #Britain #Anthropology #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @anthropology
Source: https://twitter.com/ChrisStringer65/status/1666015158819250179
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
