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Two thousand years of global temperatures 🌡️ in twenty seconds

Watch till the end👇👇

🎥 Ben Gregory

392 years ago, the English mathematician and clergyman William Oughtred introduced the multiplication sign ✕ for the first time. via @fermatslibrary.

Oughtred was the first to use logarithmic scales and sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and division. He is credited with inventing the slide rule in about 1622. He also introduced the abbreviations "sin" and "cos" for the sine and cosine functions. via @wikipedia

#mathematics

I'm gonna put this out there: If you are new to #Mastodon and have found people to be hostile, or nitpicky, and just generally unhelpful please @ me and say hi. I am happy to walk you through this place, get you comfortable, be non-judgy about helping you, and help make this place your new home. I'm gonna call this #MastoHelper If others want to help newbies, lets do it together!

We need to do more to make people feel welcome first, that's how you create a culture people want to be part of.

Do you agree with out list? What other manuscript belongs in the top 10?

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/07/beautiful-medieval-manuscripts/

#medieval #manuscripts

@JulianOliver what about the corresponding paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w

Besides a decline of the #amoc before the critical transition, there are early-warning signals: (1) critical slowing down (2) increased variance in the signal.

And the authors use sea surface temperature data dating back to 1870.

Additionally a lot of exploratory data background with 41 mainly #openaccess references, and matlab/R code/data

#reproducibleResearch at its best.

The IPCC said the Gulf Stream System wouldn't collapse this century. New analysis suggests it could occur as early as 2025, if not in the coming decades, on our current trajectory. Shutdown of the Atlantic circulation system (Amoc) is one of the primary planetary boundaries which scientists agree we must never cross "At all costs".

“This would be a very, very large change. The Amoc has not been shut off for 12,000 years.” - Prof Ditlevsen, University of Copenhagen

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-as-early-as-2025-study-suggests

Very cool short piece by Regina Rini on the role of philosophy within the sciences and humanities:

https://dailynous.com/2023/07/11/philosophy-as-glial-cell-guest-post/

Her main point is that philosophy is like the glia cells in the brain, doing the long-term, behind the scenes work of forging and pruning connections between the neurons, that is, between the different fields of human knowledge.

#philosophy

One of the most spectacular coronal mass ejections from the Sun ever captured by NASA's SDO spacecraft.

Credit: NASA​/​SDO