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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.
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It's #earlymodern #backwardsbooks, folks. A student reading in mid seventeenth-century Europe, and his studying wall of books is a giant set of books shelved fore-edge outwards. #bookhistory as trendy as ever.
More on this: https://mastodon.social/@dbellingradt/109980881532854400
"Personal names provide fascinating testimony to Babylonia's multi-ethnic society. This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well as involuntarily across the ancient Middle East, leaving traces of their presence in the archives of institutions and private persons in southern Mesopotamia."
Waerzeggers, Caroline, and Melanie M. Groß, eds. Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE): An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009291071 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Babylon #Mesopotamia #Cuneiform #NonFiction #Academia #Academic #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Read #Reading #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (71)
"Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (GDP) as a goal, scale down destructive and unnecessary forms of production to reduce energy and material use, and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being."
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04412-x #Degrowth #Ecology #Economics #Environment #Science #STEM #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Sustainability @science @economics
"In this paper, we presented a proof of concept for an artificial intelligent agent system capable of (semi-)autonomously designing, planning and multistep executing scientific experiments."
Boiko, D.A., MacKnight, R., Kline, B. et al. Autonomous chemical research with large language models. Nature 624, 570–578 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06792-0 #OpenAcces #OA #Research #Article #Science #STEM #Chemistry #ComputerScience #Computer #Engineering #AI #ArtificalIntelligence #LLM #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @engineering
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meolcian, wk.v: to milk, take milk from an animal; to give milk, to suckle. (MEH-ol-chi-ahn /ˈmɛɔl-tʃɪ-an)
Image: Bestiary; England, 13th century; Bodleian Library, MS Bodl. 764, f. 41v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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I highly recommend supporting the Standard Ebooks project. 📚
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@bibliolater Humanities infinite stupidity
In a competition betwixt finite resources and infinite avarice which one is more likely to overcome the other?
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Today in 1758, Carl von Linné, better known as Linneaus, played the first game of 'Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral', or in the original Latin, 'Animale, Vegetabile, Lapideum, Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ.' #OnThisDay #Linneaus #AnimalVegetableMineral #Taxonomy
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German physicist Heinrich Hertz died #OTD in 1894.
The discovery that electromagnetic radiation in the microwave and radio regions of the spectrum displays the same basic behavior as visible light—reflection, refraction, diffraction, interference, polarization—was made in Karlsruhe in 1888. He then conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. The unit of frequency was named the "hertz" in his honor.
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On the seventh day of Christmas: How archaeologists reconstructed the burning of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. The Hebrew bible is the only surviving account of the siege that laid waste to Solomon's Temple. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/how-archaeologists-reconstructed-the-burning-of-jerusalem-in-586-bce/
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Keeping a reading reord is a habit that I'm very happy I developed about 10 years ago because I was rebuying books that I'd previously finished and forgotten. Also, I love to be able to go back and talk about favourite features with other readers. I just use GR because it's readily accessible, I can scan ISBNs of books that interest me and I can bookmark whatever other readers recommend. Nice to see what my friends are reading.
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I don’t recall stating a specific goal, but toward the end of the year I decided to bring reading for myself back into my life. I’m a teacher (at the moment), and so my reading over the past few years has basically been for work, with the exception of the teacher book club. Of course, that’s a whole thought stream of its own.
Something I have done in years past to is to keep a notebook and write about each book I read. A summary, a lesson, what I liked or learned about character or plot writing, etc. I’m thinking to start that up again as well.
I’m leery of setting a numerical goal, but there will definitely be more reading for me in 2024.
Did you have a #reading goal for 2023? Did you meet it? I did not have a goal; but, I did read quite a few books over 2023. I cannot say how many exactly as I did not keep a written record. Is keeping a record important? Should keeping a record be my #NewYearsResolution for 2024?
#Read #AmReading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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Is it 2024 yet?
#NewYear #NewYears #NewYearsDay
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"My aim is not to give a complete account of the activities of British biblical scholars during the war, but to explore some of the distinctive ways in which their writing on biblical subjects was informed by their experience of the war, and especially by the themes of Allied propaganda."
Mein, A. (2022) “Biblical Scholarship and Political Propaganda in First World War Britain”, Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok , 87, pp. 52–72. doi: https://doi.org/10.58546/se.v87i.11086 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Bible #Exegesis #Divinity #Propaganda #History #Britain #UK #WW1
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Italian physiologist, physicist, & mathematician Giovanni Alfonso Borelli died #OTD in 1679.
Trained in mathematics, Borelli made extensive studies of Jupiter's moons, the mechanics of animal locomotion &, in microscopy, of the constituents of blood. He also used microscopy to investigate the stomatal movement of plants, & undertook studies in medicine & geology. He was the first scientist to explain that animal & human bodily movements are caused by muscular contractions.
"...we try to illustrate in a concise way the two main “wonders” of Faraday’s life: that the son of a poor blacksmith in the Victorian age was able to become the director the Royal Institution and member of the Royal Society, still keeping a honest and “virtuous” moral conduct, and that Faraday’s approach to many topics, but mainly to electrochemistry and electrodynamics, has paved the way to the modern (atomistic and field-based) view of physics, only relying on experiments and intuition."
Bagnoli, F. and Livi, R. (2018) “Michael Faraday: a virtuous life dedicated to science”, Substantia, 2(1), pp. 121–134. doi: https://doi.org/10.13128/Substantia-45 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Science #HistSci #Biography #Chemistry #Physics #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @chemistry @physics
"Prior research suggests several predictors of susceptibility to conspiracy theories, including narcissistic personality traits (grandiosity, need for uniqueness), cognitive processes (critical thinking, confirmation bias) and lack of education. The aim of the current paper was to explore how facets of narcissism predict susceptibility to conspiracy theories."
Cosgrove TJ and Murphy CP (2023) Narcissistic susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs exaggerated by education, reduced by cognitive reflection. Front. Psychol. 14:1164725. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1164725 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Narcissism #ConspiracyTheories #Education #CriticalThinking #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
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
