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"Our findings suggest that a low education is a risk factor for adult mortality, after controlling for age, sex, and marital status. We find that, on average, an adult with 12 years of schooling has a 24·5% (95% UI 23·0–26·1) lower risk of mortality compared with an adult with no schooling, with an average reduction in mortality risk of 1·9% (1·8–2·0) per year of schooling. The protective effect of higher education on mortality was significant across age, sex, period, birth cohort, and Socio-demographic Index level and did not attenuate at higher levels of education."
Balaj, M. et al. (2024) 'Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis,' The Lancet Public Health [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2468-2667(23)00306-7. #OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Research #Education #University #School #Life #Mortality #Health #Academia #Academic #Academics @education @health
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@bibliolater @ai @archaeodons this is a
wonderful example of using AI for good. but we should be clear that the AI did not decipher some code/language that humans could not… it was used to allow humans to read some of what was written in previously unreadable text (due to serious physical degradation from burning). the AI had no understanding of the text.
"Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and capers." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00346-8 #Research #Archaeology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Archaeodons @ai @archaeodons
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Scothish essayist, historian, and philosopher Thomas Carlyle died #OTD in 1881.
His major works include The French Revolution, 3 vol. (1837), On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841), and The History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, 6 vol. (1858–65). He founded the London Library, contributed significantly to the creation of the National Portrait Galleries in London and Scotland.
Books by Thomas Carlyle at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/523
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Around median age 41 you get more people over age 65 than under 15. There are 10 large (20mil) countries past that point: Japan, Italy, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, Korea, France, Canada, Poland, UK. #demography #aging
"Building on the pioneering work of scholars like Klaus Weber, Eve Rosenhaft, Felix Brahms, and Mischa Honeck, this essay re-charts the various routes of German participation in, profiteering from, as well as showing resistance to transatlantic slavery and its cultural, political, and intellectual reverberations."
Heike Raphael-Hernandez & Pia Wiegmink (2017) German entanglements in transatlantic slavery: An introduction, Atlantic Studies, 14:4, 419-435, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2017.1366009 #Journal #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #German #Europe #Colonialism #Slavery #Africa #AtlanticWorld #EarlyModern #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
"The paper proposed aims to analyze the slavery legislation born between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the so-called Black Codes laws—enacted in all the greatest colonial powers of the Old Continent—which regulated life and transportation of slaves in the colonies. Spain, Portugal, England and France, between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, created legislative codes dedicated to the slave’s management in the colonies, which regulated all aspects of their life: from religion to marriage, from cohabitation to imprisonment, from crimes to corporal punishment."
Patisso G and Ermete Carbone F (2021) Slavery and Slave Codes in Overseas Empires. Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. IntechOpen. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.91411. #OpenAccess #OA #PeerReview #DOI #Empire #Slavery #Colonization #AtlanticWorld #America #Caribbean #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
Larsson, L. (1996) “Late Atlantic Settlement in Southern Portugal - Results of an excavation of a Mesolithic shell midden by the River Sado”, Current Swedish Archaeology, 4(1), pp. 123–139. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.37718/CSA.1996.08. #OpenAccess #OA #PeerReview #DOI #Archaeology #Mesolithic #Portugal #Europe #Archaeodons #PDF #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons
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#Google phases out 3rd party tracking cookies: #Privacy Sandbox explained 🍪
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In the latest twist of the publishing arms race, firms churning out fake papers have taken to bribing journal editors https://www.science.org/content/article/paper-mills-bribing-editors-scholarly-journals-science-investigation-finds #publishing #science #research #papermills
"Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00278-3 #Science #STEM #Read #Reading #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #BookReview @science @bookstodon
"It is a puzzle why humans tend toward unrealistic optimism, as it can lead to excessively risky behavior and a failure to take precautionary action. Using data from a large nationally representative U.K. sample (N=36, 312) our claim is that optimism bias is partly a consequence of low cognition—as measured by a broad range of cognitive skills, including memory, verbal fluency, fluid reasoning and numerical reasoning."
Dawson, C. (2023). Looking on the (B)right Side of Life: Cognitive Ability and Miscalibrated Financial Expectations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231209400 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Human #Psychology #Optimism #Cognitive #DecisionMaking #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
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Portuguese writer João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, viscount de Almeida Garrett was born #OTD in 1799. In 1843, Garrett published Romanceiro e Cancioneiro Geral, a collection of folklore; two years later, he wrote the first volume of his historical novel O Arco de Santana (it took inspiration from The Hunchback of Notre Dame). He proposed the construction of the D. Maria II National Theatre and the creation of the Conservatory of Dramatic Art. via @wikipedia
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The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
“If you have growing numbers of researchers who are being strongly incentivised to publish just for the sake of publishing, while we have a growing number of journals making money from publishing the resulting articles, you have a perfect storm,” said Professor Marcus Munafo of Bristol University. “That is exactly what we have now.”
#Science #Integrity #Fraud #Scicomm
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Please be honest. No one is watching or judging, so there’s no need to puff-up the numbers in this anonymous poll.
How many news outlets, newsletters, or podcasts do you actually pay for?
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@bibliolater yes those I count as a given, they would have bought sport cars before and endangered us in subtly different ways ...
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@bibliolater @bookstodon Alexandria, the city that changed the world by Islam Issa
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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
🇵🇹 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?
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
