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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 film exploring the development of the quill pen, from its earliest known depiction to the birth of the fountain pen." https://youtu.be/36h1vt-9sss #YouTube #video #history #writing #pens #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
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A little thread this week on how the Romans mapped their empire.
You can read the whole thing here:
Why do prime numbers make these spirals? | Dirichlet’s theorem, pi approximations, and more https://youtu.be/EK32jo7i5LQ #YouTube #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Video
"Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues." https://nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8 #Neuroscience #Philosophy #Science @philosophy @science
"The meaning of probability; Kolmogorov’s axioms; Random variables; Introduction to stochastic processes; Markov chains; Poisson process; Wiener process. Important distributions; These notes contain further pointers to the literature.." https://www.lem.sssup.it/phd/documents/probpisanew.pdf #Maths #Probability #Economics #PDF @economics
Source: https://twitter.com/FriedrichHayek/status/1672662927084748801
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#introduction
I am a #writer and help other writers write in all formats; #Memoir, #CreativeNon-Fiction, #Screenplays, #HistoricalFiction, #Comedy. Currently working on #HistoricalFiction set during the #AmericanRevolution.
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#OTD 24 June 843 Vikings sack Nantes. Learn how Charles the Bald fought the Vikings in our episode on his reign https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/59-charlemagne-junior/
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#OTD 24 June 1604 Samuel de Champlain becomes the first European to discover the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present-day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
'Peter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)' by Scholarly Communication https://megaphone.link/NSR2033542291 #books #podcast #bookstodon @bookstodon
Kelsey E Witt and others, The Impact of Modern Admixture on Archaic Human Ancestry in Human Populations, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2023, evad066, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad066 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Biology #ResearchPapers #Article @science
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Today in 1497, John Cabot lands on the Atlantic Coast of North America, claiming it for England.
He arrives with one ship called Matthew of Bristol, with 18-20 men on board.
The location of the landing is disputed & may have been in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia or Maine.
#canada #history #novascotia #newfoundland #exploration #histodon #histodons
"Scholars have assumed that peace was broadly welcomed, especially among the English mercantile community. Yet many merchants had made vast fortunes from the war, through privateering or opening trade routes with Spain’s imperial territories."
Source: Alexandra Gajda, War, peace and commerce and the Treaty of London (1604), Historical Research, 2023;, htad011, https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htad011 #History #England #Spain #C17th #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Listening to "Thirty years of proof: celebrating Andrew Wiles on the anniversary of Fermat's Last Theorem" at https://livingproof.buzzsprout.com/1992011/13087386 #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Podcast
"They walk us through just how banking and finance was done in the days before computers, telephones and even the telegraph." https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/this-is-how-finance-and-banking-worked-before-comp #books #bookstodon #podcast #history #histodon #histodons #economics #finance #C18th @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @economics
Source: https://twitter.com/PrincetonUPress/status/1671954205756588033
"One of the biggest certainties with an El Niño is that global temperature will ratchet up, as they always do during El Niño years, because the ocean releases exceptional amounts of heat into the atmosphere." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/el-nino-may-break-a-record-and-reshape-weather-around-the-globe/ #Climate #Science #ElNiño @science
Source: https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1671943252398800912
"When Thomas Jefferson ran for president, his opponents attacked him as an atheist. But was this true? What did Jefferson believe?" https://youtu.be/CXKc7MMB1uQ #video #history #histodon #histodons #USA #religion #christianity #bible @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/andrewmarkhenry/status/1671934702662434831
"this book is an invaluable companion to students and lecturers alike in exploring women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, medicine and culture." https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/211143 #OpenAccess #OA #history #histodon #histodons #science #bookstodon #books #book #maths #technology #medicine #culture @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/UCLpress/status/1671503733564358656
"Diogenes engaged in shocking behavior to demonstrate the contradictions, small-mindedness, and sheer absurdity of prevailing social conventions." https://bigthink.com/thinking/dangerous-ideas-diogenes-cynic/ #Books #History #Philosophy #bookstodon #histodon #histodons @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1663956921051643904
"The highly unusual find, thought to be the first time a literary quotation has been discovered on a Roman amphora.." https://theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/21/virgil-quote-found-on-fragment-of-roman-jar-unearthed-in-spain #Archaeology #Roman #Latin #Spain @archaeodons
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
