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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
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It’s hard not to say “AI” when everybody else does too, but technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing. There is no intelligence there, and it’s not going to become sentient. It’s just statistics, and the danger they pose is primarily through the false sense of skill or fitness for purpose that people ascribe to them.
The secrets of Einstein's unknown equation – with Sean Carroll.
"The real Einstein's Equation is part of general relativity, which relates the curvature of spacetime to the mass and energy distributed within it.
Sean explains why the geometry of spacetime has anything to do with gravity, and how this famous equation expresses the way that spacetime curves." https://youtu.be/BRudidBcfXk #Youtube #Video #Science #Einstein #Space #Universe #Equation #Physics #Lecture @science @physics
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New #genes found that can arise 'from nothing'.
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"Where Did the Open Access Movement Go Wrong?" This is a really interesting interview. While I strongly support the #OA movement, it's also clear that OA has been coopted by many traditional journals to make money, entrenching barriers to academic publishing for unfunded, nontraditional and marginalised scholars. Leaving many of us unable to afford to publish. (Not forgetting the fantastic mainly-online journals that have no APCs on principle, which I know there are more and more of.)
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French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to the Academy of Sciences, coins the terms linear polarization, circular polarization, and elliptical polarization, and reports a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence #OTD in 1822.
After Fresnel, the defining feature of polarized light was that the perpendicular components of vibration had a fixed ratio of amplitudes and a fixed difference in phase. via @wikipedia
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Swedish pharmaceutical chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele was born #OTD in 1742. Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine, among others. Scheele discovered organic acids tartaric, oxalic, uric, lactic, and citric, as well as hydrofluoric, hydrocyanic, and arsenic acids. via @wikipedia
Books by Carl Wilhelm Scheele at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/31878
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How each country’s #emissions and #climate pledged compare, chart @FT https://www.ft.com/content/9dfb0201-ef77-4c05-93cd-1e277c7017cf
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Gemma Frisius, who first published the method of triangulation for surveying, was born 8 December 1508 #histsci #histtech https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/mapping-the-history-of-triangulation/
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An international team led by archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin uncovered fortified prehistoric settlements in a remote region of Siberia. The results of their research reveal that hunter–gatherers constructed complex defense structures around their settlements 8,000 years ago.
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-oldest-fortresses-world.html
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This is really quite something... #Antarctic sea ice extent is back to a record low for the current date. This is actually below 2016, which was previously a massive outlier in November and December.
More sea ice graphs at: https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/
"Our results highlight the joint importance of network structure, commitment, and psycho-linguistic aspects of social interactions in characterizing grassroots collective action, and contribute to deepen our understanding of the mechanisms that drive processes of behavior change of online groups."
Cava, L.L., Aiello, L.M. & Tagarelli, A. Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon. Sci Rep 13, 21626 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48200-7 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #STEM #Research #Computer #Computerscience #Information #Technology #IT #Twitter #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialMedia #Academia #Academic
"In this study, we developed a soft robotic model of the right heart that accurately mimics RV biomechanics and hemodynamics, including free wall, septal and valve motion."
Singh, M., Bonnemain, J., Ozturk, C. et al. Robotic right ventricle is a biohybrid platform that simulates right ventricular function in (patho)physiological conditions and intervention. Nat Cardiovasc Res (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44161-023-00387-8 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Cardiology #Medicine #Health #Bioengineering #Heart #Engineering #ComputerScience #Biotechnology #Robotics #Science #STEM #Academia #Academic @science @engineering
"The present study has highlighted the gene-culture co-migration with the demographic movements that occurred during the past two millennia in Central and East Asia. Additionally, this work contributes to a better understanding of the distribution of immunogenic erythrocyte polymorphisms with a view to improve transfusion safety."
Petit, F., Minnai, F., Chiaroni, J. et al. The radial expansion of the Diego blood group system polymorphisms in Asia: mark of co-migration with the Mongol conquests. Eur J Hum Genet 27, 125–132 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-018-0245-9 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #Science #STEM #Genetics #Biology #Asia #CentralAsia #EastAsia #Demography #Migration #Academia #Academic @science @biology
"Scientists have developed tiny robots made of human cells that are able to repair damaged neural tissue1. The ‘anthrobots’ were made using human tracheal cells and might, in future, be used in personalized medicine.
The research “points the way to a ‘tissue engineering 2.0’ that synthetically controls a range of developmental processes”, says Alex Hughes, a bioengineer at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia." https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03777-x #Science #Bioengineering #Biology #Robotics #STEM #Scientists
Mountains. Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie. London. Published by James Reynolds, 174, Strand. (to accompany) Reynolds introduction to natural philosophy. https://archive.org/details/dr_mountains-drawn--engraved-by-john-emslie-london-published-by-james-reyn-13033032 via @internetarchive #Drawing #Mountains #River #DataVisualization #DataViz #C19th #19thCentury
#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
Comparative view of the principal buildings in the world. Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie. London. Published by James Reynolds, 174, Strand. March 30, 1850. (to accompany) Reynolds introduction to natural philosophy. https://archive.org/details/dr_comparative-view-of-the-principal-buildings-in-the-world-drawn--engraved-13033035 via @internetarchive #Picture #World #Buildings #DataVisualization #DataViz #History #C19th #19thCentury #STEM #Technology #Science #Histsci
#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
"We argue that market power by some corporations and in some sectors – including temporary market power emerging in the aftermath of the pandemic – amplified inflation. It made price increases peak higher and remain more persistent than they would have been in a world with less market power. To be clear: corporate profits were thus not the sole driver of inflation, nor are dominant corporations to blame for the energy shock
caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But we argue that their market power exacerbated the fallout – and that this is not sufficiently captured in the prevailing macroeconomic debate or in workhorse models."
Jung C and Hayes C (2023) Inflation, profits and market power: Towards a new research and policy agenda, IPPR and Common
Wealth. http://www.ippr.org/publications/inflation-profits-and-market-power #Report #Article #Economics #Economy #Corporations #Market #Profit #Inflation @economics
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@bibliolater Don has changed/updated his ideas on this topic. See
McGuirk, Donald L., Jr.; McIntosh, Gregory C.
Depicting Cuba, Not North America: Solving the Enigma of America on Early Maps
Terrae Incognitae, 2023 vol. 55(1) pp. 4–64
Brozio JP, Stos-Gale Z, Müller J, Müller-Scheeßel N, Schultrich S, et al. (2023) The origin of Neolithic copper on the central Northern European plain and in Southern Scandinavia: Connectivities on a European scale. PLOS ONE 18(5): e0283007. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283007 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Metallurgy #Copper #Archaeology #History #Europe #Scandinavia #Science #STEM #Academia #Academic #Archaeodons @archaeodons @science
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The field of archaeology has been continuously evolving in 2023, making significant strides in uncovering new historical findings.
A selection of
Top 10 archaeological discoveries of 2023
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/12/top-10-archaeological-discoveries-of-2023/149853
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
