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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
"This article presented empirical evidence for a statistically significant relationship between being part of the Roman Empire about 1700 years ago and current regional disparities in terms of quantity and quality of entrepreneurial activity, as well as innovation."
Michael Fritsch, Martin Obschonka, Fabian Wahl & Michael Wyrwich (2023) On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany, Regional Studies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2276341 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Economics #Economy #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #Business #Roman #Germany #Europe @econhist @economics
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European Skin Turned Pale Only Relatively Recently
Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/016477v2.full
Suggests that light skin color and the tallness associated with European genetics are relatively recent traits to the continent.
#BOTD: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
"Nikolai Lobachevsky published his work on non-Euclidean geometry, the first account of the subject to appear in print." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lobachevsky/ #OTD #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #STEM #Geometry @science
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DNA-researcher: It’s not 'woke' to portray prehistoric Europeans with dark skin. It’s evolution.
https://www.sciencenordic.com/archaeology-denmark-history/dna-researcher-its-not-woke-to-portray-prehistoric-europeans-with-dark-skin-its-evolution/2273715
Ancient DNA analyses suggest that prehistoric Europeans looked different from modern Europeans today, but some people find that hard to accept.
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This isn't the first time a physicist has attempted to take on deeper questions of biology.
The origin of life:
A new theory suggests physics holds the answer
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/the-origin-of-life-a-new-theory-suggests-physics-holds-the-answer
Still in the early stages, yet the theory is not without its critics.
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Do you remember, when you were a kid, the wait between one Christmas and the next seemed to last an eternity?
Have you ever wondered why time seems to go by faster the older you get?
Find out on my latest substack post:
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a-bysgian, wk.v: to busy, engage, involve, preoccupy. (ah-BUEZ-yi-ahn / a-ˈbyz-jɪ-an)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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Very nice new video from Veritasium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUHkTs-Ipfg&t=1090s
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#OTD 30 November 1803 In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to an official from the French First Republic. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
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A new milestone reached! There are now over 4 million #openaccess articles on the Scholars Portal Journals platform 🎉
Browse all open research publications available on Scholars Portal Journals now: https://bit.ly/47YAGkg
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Lastly, 100 years of October temperature anomalies over land areas through this year...
Data from https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
"We have documented more than 200 relative values of gold and silver across almost 3000 years (2500 bce–400 ce) to establish value benchmarks for essentially pure metal. Our aim is to improve understanding of ancient economies by enabling regional and temporal comparisons of these relative values."
Ross, J., & Bettenay, L. (2023). Gold and Silver: Relative Values in the Ancient Past. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774323000355 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Ancient #Gold #Silver #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Economy #History #Antiquity #Antiquidons @econhist @archaeodons @antiquidons
"The present article is then concerned with the standardisation of the apostrophe in the English orthographic system in the period 1600–1900 and pursues the following objectives: (a) to study the use and omission of the apostrophe in the expression of the past tense, the genitive case and the nominative plural in the period; (b) to assess the relationship between the three uses and their likely connections; and (c) to evaluate the likely participation of grammarians in the adoption and the rejection of each of these phenomena in English."
CALLE-MARTÍN, J., & PACHECO-FRANCO, M. (2023). ‘The night before beg'd ye queens's pardon and his brother's’: The apostrophe in the history of English. English Language & Linguistics, 1-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674323000552 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #English #Language #Linguistics #Philology #Grammar @linguistics
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American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist Mark Twain was born #OTD in 1835. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Pudd'nhead Wilson, and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today with Charles Dudley Warner. via @wikipedia
Books by Mark Twain at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53
"Decades after the scientific debate about the anthropogenic causes of climate change was settled, climate disinformation still challenges the scientific evidence in public discourse. Here we present a comprehensive theoretical framework of (anti)science belief formation and updating to account for the psychological factors that influence the acceptance or rejection of scientific messages."
Spampatti, T., Hahnel, U.J.J., Trutnevyte, E. et al. Psychological inoculation strategies to fight climate disinformation across 12 countries. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01736-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Report #Climate #ClimateChange #Disinformation #Psychology @science @psychology
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Informative podcast about eugenics: “Say the word now and it calls to mind skull-measuring cranks or Nazi death camps but for decades it was a mainstream project in many parts of the world, attracting not just white supremacists and elitist snobs but liberals, socialists and feminists”
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/origin-story/id1624704966?i=1000635182830
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Science communicators need to stop telling everyone the universe is a meaningless void: "science communicators should take an anthropological approach to science communication. Understanding what people value may help science make the world a better place"
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@bibliolater You can filter posts by language, but it does depend on the poster correctly setting their language.
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
