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If you enjoy calming images of a #rainbow on social media, be aware that you haven't seen yet such a rainbow thing with two extra suns. In 1645, in the last years of of the later called #ThirtyYearsWar, these rainbows and three suns were maybe seen near #Nuremberg, and interpreted as a godly sign for peace and a reminder to behave better. #histodons

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Redding, B. (2023). The Western Design Revised: Death, Dissent, and Discontent on the Gloucester, 1654–1656. The Historical Journal, 1-26. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X23000 @histodon @histodons

Segurel L, Guarino-Vignon P, Marchi N, Lafosse S, Laurent R, et al. (2020) Why and when was lactase persistence selected for? Insights from Central Asian herders and ancient DNA. PLOS Biology 18(6): e3000742. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3 @science

"This article offers the following 11 quick tips that researchers can follow to more effectively and precisely discover data that meet their specific needs."

Gregory K, Khalsa SJ, Michener WK, Psomopoulos FE, de Waard A, et al. (2018) Eleven quick tips for finding research data. PLOS Computational Biology 14(4): e1006038. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1 @science @data

I will literally try every possible social media to avoid using Twitter, so Mastodon here we go. I am a researcher and I love studying biological fibres, but even more I love rearranging biological data collected by doctors, biologists and zoologists. This is why I am working on a bio data-collection app.

"We extracted ancient DNA from a recently exposed fracture surface of a clay brick deriving from the palace of king Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BCE) in Nimrud, Iraq. We detected 34 unique taxonomic groups of plants."

Arbøll, T.P., Rasmussen, S.L., de Jonge, N. et al. Revealing the secrets of a 2900-year-old clay brick, discovering a time capsule of ancient DNA. Sci Rep 13, 13092 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-381 @science

Merrymount Colony (1624-1630 CE) was a settlement first established in New England as Mount Wollaston in 1624 CE but renamed Mount Ma-re (referred to as Merrymount) in 1626 CE by the lawyer, writer, and colonist Thomas Morton (l. worldhistory.org/Merrymount_Co #History #JohnWinthrop #MerrymountColony #NewEnglishCanaan

🇳🇱 "His work ranged over a wide array of topics, though he is best known to philosophers today for his contributions to the natural law theories of normativity which emerged in the later medieval and early modern periods."

Miller, Jon, "Hugo Grotius", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), plato.stanford.edu/archives/sp @philosophy @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

"It has influenced Star Wars and Game of Thrones – and characters as diverse as Voltaire, Nietzsche and Freddie Mercury have cited it as an inspiration. So what is Zoroastrianism? Joobin Bekhrad finds out." bbc.com/culture/article/201704 @histodon @histodons

"Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online?"

Jongepier, F., & Klenk, M. (Eds.). (2022). The Philosophy of Online Manipulation (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003205425 @philosophy @bookstodon (52)

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I wrote a short note on how the identification of a formal polynomial and concrete interpretations of that polynomial on various rings can be viewed as a special case of the Yoneda lemma. Not a deep observation, but it helped me conceptually anchor the Yoneda lemma in a concrete example. terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/08

James Franck was born #OTD in 1882.

He won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom".

His work included the Franck–Hertz experiment, an important confirmation of the Bohr model of the atom. He promoted the careers of women in physics, notably Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer and Hilde Levi. via @wikipedia

#science #physics

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Donne, J. (1624). Devotions Vpon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: Digested Into I. Meditations Upon Our Humane Condition. 2. Expostuvlations, and Debatements with God. 3. Prayers, Upon the Seuerall Occasions, to Him. United Kingdom: A.M.. google.co.uk/books/edition/Dev @bookstodon (50)

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Lixin He, Yanqing He, Siqi Sun, Esteban Goetz, Anh-Thu Le, Xiaosong Zhu, Pengfei Lan, Peixiang Lu, and Chii-Dong Lin "Attosecond probing and control of charge migration in carbon-chain molecule," Advanced Photonics 5(5), 056001 (24 August 2023). doi.org/10.1117/1.AP.5.5.05600 @science

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