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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.
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English physician and scientist Edward Jenner died #OTD in 1823.
The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae, the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1798 in the title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox. In the West, Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", & his work is said to have saved "more lives than any other man".
Van der Weel FR and Van der Meer ALH (2024) Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. Front. Psychol. 14:1219945. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Study #Handwriting #Typewriting #Writing #Brain #Neuroscience #Science #STEM #Education #Psychology #Learning #DOI #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology @science
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Is AI killing the social media star? How companies are cashing in on virtual influencers
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-ai-social-media-star-companies.html
> Instagram's rising stars are a new breed of social media influencer. In fact, many of them aren't even technically human.
"Here we present ancient DNA evidence of a pre-Columbian New World treponematosis by reconstructing a high-coverage T. pallidum genome retrieved from nearly 2,000-year-old Brazilian indigenous human remains, along with three low-coverage genomes from the same spatiotemporal context."
Majander, K., Pla-Díaz, M., du Plessis, L. et al. Redefining the treponemal history through pre-Columbian genomes from Brazil. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06965-x #OpenAccess #OA #Science #STEM #PeerReviewed #Article #Genetics #Biology #Ancient #DNA #aDNA #Genome #Academia #Academic #Academia @science @biology
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The decline of science in late European antiquity and its transfer to and renaissance in the medieval Abbasid Caliphate #histsci #histtech
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/01/24/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-xiv/
"Using metallurgical technologies from the Wadi Arabah (Jordan/Israel) as a case study, we demonstrate a gradual technological development (13th-10th c. BCE) followed by a human agency-triggered punctuated “leap” (late-10th c. BCE) simultaneously across the entire region (an area of ~2000 km2)."
Ben-Yosef E, Liss B, Yagel OA, Tirosh O, Najjar M, et al. (2019) Ancient technology and punctuated change: Detecting the emergence of the Edomite Kingdom in the Southern Levant. PLOS ONE 14(9): e0221967. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221967 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #PeerReviewed #Archaeology #Metallurgy #Archaeodons #Science #STEM #Ancient #AncientNearEast #Anthropology #DOI #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology @archaeodons @science
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Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist Giambattista Vico died #OTD in 1744.
Vico's intellectual magnum opus is the book Scienza Nuova or New Science (1725), which attempts a systematic organization of the humanities as a single science that recorded and explained the historical cycles by which societies rise and fall. via @wikipedia
Books by Giambattista Vico at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42125
Map of the Roman Empire at the period of its greatest extent. About the year A.D. 107. https://archive.org/details/dr_map-of-the-roman-empire-at-the-period-of-its-greatest-extent-about-the-yea-1199031 via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #Roman #Empire #RomanEmpire #Europe #Asia #Africa
#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
Greece at the time of the Achaean and Aetolian League. Drawn by Dr. Charles Muller. John Murray, London, 1873. (to accompany) Dr. William Smith's Ancient atlas. 21. 1874. https://archive.org/details/dr_greece-at-the-time-of-the-achaean-and-aetolian-league-drawn-by-dr-charles-13007056 ~via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #Ancient #Greece #Europe #History
#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
"Notably, we demonstrated through AlphaGeometry a neuro-symbolic approach for theorem proving by means of large-scale exploration from scratch, sidestepping the need for human-annotated proof examples and human-curated problem statements."
Trinh, T.H., Wu, Y., Le, Q.V. et al. Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations. Nature 625, 476–482 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06747-5 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #STEM #Geometry #ComputerScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Maths #Math #Mathematics @science
"The team used a sophisticated statistical technique, latent profile analysis, to identify clusters of biomarker activity. Three groups were identified and labelled as low risk to health, moderate risk, and high risk. The researchers then looked at how earlier exposure to stressful circumstances might affect people’s likelihood of being in the high-risk group." https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jan/financial-stress-linked-worse-biological-health #Science #STEM #News #Health #Medicine #Stress #Biology #UCL @science @biology
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Swiss physicist, geologist, and early Alpine explorer Horace Bénédict de Saussure died #OTD in 1799.
He is often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven. He is also considered one of the founders of mountaineering. His research took place in the Alps, particularly in the Mont-Blanc massif.
Books by Horace Bénédict de Saussure at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62394
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Consumer prices pushed up mostly by corporate profits, new Groundwork Collaborative study finds | Fortune https://fortune.com/2024/01/20/inflation-greedflation-consumer-price-index-producer-price-index-corporate-profit/ “#CorporateProfits drove 53% of #inflation during the second and third quarters of 2023 and more than one-third since the start of the pandemic, the report found, analyzing Commerce Department data. That’s a massive jump from the four decades prior to the pandemic, when profits drove just 11% of price growth. “
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A book list from this week on CBC radio.
#Books #Canada #Reading
https://www.cbc.ca/books/20-books-you-heard-about-on-cbc-radio-last-week-1.7081954
"The following article provides a mathematical analysis of the paradox, explains its role in causal reasoning and inference, compares theories of what makes the paradox seem paradoxical, and surveys its applications in different domains."
Sprenger, Jan and Naftali Weinberger, "Simpson’s Paradox", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/paradox-simpson/>. #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Statistics
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Born OTD 1813, John C Frémont
Frémont was the 1st Republican candidate for president, but he lost the 1856 election to James Buchanan.
Frémont is famous for the 5 expeditions he led to the West and his service in the Mexican-American and Civil Wars. He commanded the Department of the West before being fired by Lincoln for insubordination.
Being he was fired, Frémont gave Ulysses S Grant a field command, setting him on his ultimately successful path.
"Governments have put future bans on the sale of internal combustion engines, but recently we’ve seen politicians backtracking a little on the issue. Also, there are still huge infrastructure and cost challenges ahead for EVs. So, are reports about the death of the internal combustion engine a little premature?" https://youtu.be/i8iHzXHt9iw #FT #Youtube #Video #EV #Cars #ElectricVehicles #Engineering @engineering
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Science’s fake-paper problem: high-profile effort will tackle paper mills
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Subscribing to hashtags in Mastodon is great. Such an underappreciated feature
It's brought me a lot of fresh and good content , as well as finding fascinating users across the fediverse, right in my timeline.
If you struggle to find good follows, please consider searching for hashtags related to your interests, and following those.
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
