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William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus #OTD in 1787.

Titania and Oberon are named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania´s orbit lies inside Uranus's magnetosphere while Oberon´s orbit lies partially outside Uranus's magnetosphere. For nearly 50 years following their discovery, Titania and Oberon would not be observed by any instrument other than Herschel's. via @wikipedia

#science #astronomy

r* (green line) as the level of real interest rate at which the economy is neither expanding nor contracting and, thus, where #inflation is expected to be relatively stable, chart @richmondfed
https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/economic_brief/2024/eb_24-02?utm_source=Federal+Reserve+Bank+of+Richmond&utm_campaign=4692cf9ee2-RSS_EMAIL_EB&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f56b5f06b6-4692cf9ee2-114398048

Medieval paintings found at Christ's College, #Cambridge by builders.

The paintings are thought to be from the early 16th Century. The three crowned motifs, depict a red Lancastrian rose, a portcullis and a probable fleur-de-lis.

The college was re-founded in 1505 by Henry VII's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. The portcullis was the badge of the Beaufort family.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67926737 #archaeology #tudor #uk

@bibliolater imho, it really annoying on mobile.

🦴🧬 For any #palaeogenomicists joining Mastodon about now, we've got an open list of researchers in #palaeogenomics #archaeogenetics #ancientDNA #aDNA etc. to help you re-build your 'old' networks!

To see the list and/or see instructions on how make yourself findable for other likeminded people see the following page: https://jfy133.github.io/Mastodon-Palaeogenomicists/

And @ezgi and myself will help get you verified and visible!

Swedish biologist & physician Carl Linnaeus died #OTD in 1778. He was the 1st to frame principles for defining natural genera & species of organisms & to create a uniform system for naming them (binomial nomenclature). Linnaeus published Philosophia Botanica in 1751. The book contained a complete survey of the taxonomy system he had been using in his earlier works. Species Plantarum contained 1,200 pages & was published in two volumes; it described over 7,300 species.

#biology #botany #zoology

The average temperature in 2023 was 0.17C higher than in 2016, the prev. record year, marking a very large increase in #climate terms. The primary cause of this increased global #heating was continued record emissions of carbon dioxide, chart @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/09/2023-record-world-hottest-climate-fossil-fuel?utm_term=659e3f3a0e652f1f40266ff31942dc82&utm_campaign=FirstEdition&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=firstedition_email

Late antiquity, Neoplatonism, John Philoponus and the impetus theory #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-xiii/

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https://noc.social/@todayilearned sometimes has interesting bits!

A proof of the negative solution to Hilbert's Tenth Problem, by Matiyasevich

https://www.mathtube.org/lecture/notes/hilberts-tenth-problem (83 pages, incl frontmatter).

This was the basis for a formal proof in Isabelle (one of several that were achieved at roughly the same time, in various proof assistants)

https://www.isa-afp.org/entries/DPRM_Theorem.html

This is really great news: LSE Press and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) have entered into a new publishing partnership, which came into effect on 1 January 2024 and will see LSE Press publish the highly respected RGS-IBG book series from mid-2024 onwards, publishing up to four open access titles each year

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/2024/01/08/royal-geographical-society-to-publish-its-book-series-open-access-with-lse-press/

#OpenAccess #OABooks #OAmonographs

🚨🚨 GROUNDBREAKING NEW FINDING ALERT 🚨🚨

"As the main result, we find that OA is associated with higher citation diversity, i.e., OPEN outputs receive more diverse citations as compared to CLOSED outputs. We refer to this phenomenon as OA citation diversity advantage."

full article ▶️
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04894-0

#OpenAccess #OAisForEveryone #Diversity

A letter written by a Roman emperor helped lead a team of archaeologists to an ancient temple that "adds significant insights into the social changes" from pagan beliefs to Christianity in the Roman Empire, experts announced recently.

CBS News reports on the discovery in Italy: https://flip.it/3CBb_G

#Archaeology #Roman #Italy #Christianity

Yesterday, a major new study was released showing massive numbers of micro/nano plastic particles in bottled water. Here's that study:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300582121

Today, bottled water lobbyists released a predictable, biased, response:
1. Stop picking on bottled water, plastic particles could be everywhere;
2. Maybe they're not bad sooo for human health, we don't know.
3. The methods used are new, so who really knows if the results are valid.
4. Keep drinking bottled water.

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4397670-bottled-water-industry-pushes-back-study-warning-nanoplastics/