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Last Notes npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @undefined @npub1p0e…z9re I wonder how many everyday activities we perform now in the future we will be discovered to have led to harm? npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1pww…vcld Is there any particular reason for that? npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 ‘Fire clouds’ from super-hot wildfires are on the rise as Earth warms “Intense blazes burning in the United States and Canada are creating their own thunderstorms, which can spark more fires.” 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02530-2 #News #Climate #ClimateChange #Wildfires #Environment @npub1zak…ewsw npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 ‘Fire clouds’ from super-hot wildfires are on the rise as Earth warms “Intense blazes burning in the United States and Canada are creating their own thunderstorms, which can spark more fires.” 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02530-2 #News #Climate #ClimateChange #Wildfires #Environment @npub1zak…ewsw npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🎥 How Do You Pronounce KAMALA? #Video length: thirteen minutes and fifty one seconds. 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NihLE-wh0xc #Kamala #Harris #KamalaHarris #Pronunciation #Linguistics @npub1dny…w7vl npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🗺️ 🎥 The Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel “The Babylonian map of the world is the oldest map of the world, in the world. Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, it is, like so many cuneiform tablets, incomplete.” #Video length:seventeen minutes and fifty nine seconds. 🔗 https://youtu.be/LUxFzh8r384 #Map #Maps #Cartography #Babylon #Mesopotamia #BritishMuseum npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🗺️ 🎥The Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel “The Babylonian map of the world is the oldest map of the world, in the world. Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, it is, like so many cuneiform tablets, incomplete.” #Video length:seventeen minutes and fifty nine seconds. 🔗 https://youtu.be/LUxFzh8r384 #Map #Maps #Cartography #Babylon #Mesopotamia #BritishMuseum npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1s4u…38us I can corfim that this is true.There was also a children’s television series shown on the BBC during my childhood by the name of Tumpton. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1xww…l3nz Suppose the AI makes a mistake what happens then? npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🇦🇷 Is this a good idea? #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Argentina #note1art…eftf npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Is this a good idea? #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #note1art…eftf npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 📷 The world’s most expensive dinosaur and more — July’s best science images “The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.” https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-024-02500-8/index.html #Image #Images #Photo #Photos #Science @npub1fv2…wutw npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🗺️ Germanic Tribes in the Roman Imperial Period “Germanic Tribal World of the Provinical Roman Period between 50 BC to 300 AD” #Europe #History #Germanic #Tribes #Map #Image attribution: Arch.-Stud. A.P., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germanic_Tribes_in_the_Roman_Imperial_Period.png https://media.social.qoto.org/media_attachments/files/112/888/955/412/140/996/original/05d06ba5e935bab8.png npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Germanic Tribes in the Roman Imperial Period “Germanic Tribal World of the Provinical Roman Period between 50 BC to 300 AD” #Europe #History #Germanic #Tribes #Map #Image attribution: Arch.-Stud. A.P., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germanic_Tribes_in_the_Roman_Imperial_Period.png https://media.social.qoto.org/media_attachments/files/112/888/955/412/140/996/original/05d06ba5e935bab8.png npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Germanic Tribes in the Roman Imperial Period “_Germanic Tribal World of the Provinical Roman Period between 50 BC to 300 AD” #Europe #History #Germanic #Tribes #Map #Image attribution: Arch.-Stud. A.P., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germanic_Tribes_in_the_Roman_Imperial_Period.png https://media.social.qoto.org/media_attachments/files/112/888/955/412/140/996/original/05d06ba5e935bab8.png npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🎥 Can the solar industry keep the lights on? “Solar power is key to the word’s efforts to shift away from fossil fuels. But the fall in panel prices has created profitability challenges for manufacturers in the US, Europe and China, leading to job cuts, delayed projects and mothballed factories.” #Video length: fifty eight seconds https://youtu.be/1fHuF–vJbM #FT #Shorts #SolarPower #SolarEnergy #Energy #FossilFuels npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🎥 Can the solar industry keep the lights on? “Solar power is key to the word’s efforts to shift away from fossil fuels. But the fall in panel prices has created profitability challenges for manufacturers in the US, Europe and China, leading to job cuts, delayed projects and mothballed factories.” #Video length: fifty eight seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fHuF–vJbM #FT #Shorts #SolarPower #SolarEnergy #Energy npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🎥 This State’s Flag is Illegal #Video length: fifty nine seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7m2TNHVHJY #Flag #USA #US #UnitedStates #America npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 If I have a choice I would prefer not to “chat” with the bot. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #OpenAI #note1emx…fjdt npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 If I have a choice I would prefer not to “#chat” with the #bot. #note1emx…fjdt npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🎥 Which Experts should we trust? “Socrates sought to test the expertise of everyone around him: the bombastic know-it-alls, the bashful youths, the confident generals, those (including the enslaved) with unsuspected mathematical competence, the workaday artisans. Aristotle later explored the ways in which expert claims can be made credible to popular judgement.” #Video length: one minute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3exXRz7GH4 #Politics #Shorts #Socrates #Aristotle npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 Norse Skaldic Poetry: How-To “Looking at the characteristics of the most difficult and prestigious meter (poetry style) of the Old Norse skálds, dróttkvætt, and how it can be replicated in a modern language.” #Video length: twenty four minuteds and eight seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQEhuH2fCp8 #OldNorse #Language #Poetry #Europe npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 In which countries do people drink the most alcohol? “Romania tops the list of countries with the highest alcohol consumption per person, with Georgia, Czechia, Latvia, and Germany rounding out the top five. This is according to the global estimates made available by the World Health Organization (WHO), the latest data referring to 2019.” https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/in-which-countries-do-people-drink-the-most-alcohol #Data #DataViz #Alcohol npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 Ex abrupto “The Romans never articulated the idea that time is money, but the technique of exordium ex abrupto came as close to it as it could.” https://www.biblonia.com/p/ex-abrupto #Roman #Latin #Rhetoric npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Requesting recommendations for accounts to follow this Friday. If you would like to know the type of content that I am interested in just have a look at my timeline. #FollowFriday #FF #Request #Recommendations npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub15tk…3fhd As the article mentions it might be that the mispronunciation is a deliberate dog whistle as opposed to low IQ or diminishing cognitive abilites. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 Account Followed On Another Social Media Platform I used to follow an account on X/Twitter that I miss. I do not think the holder has an account here on Mastodon/Fediverse. I only bring this matter up as the next book in my reading list (which I am close to starting) was one of his recommendations. #X #Twitter #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialMedia npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1v5x…fmhy From memory I did some reading around this topic a while back. I think the settlement after interaction with the outside world just became unviable. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🇳🇴 🎥 See Norse Manuscripts in Oslo “Dr. Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir and Dr. Ole-Albert Rønning Nordby talk about the impressive collection of unique Old Norse manuscripts on display at the National Library of Norway (nb.no), focused on Magnus the Lawmender’s Landslova, now through mid-September 2024.” #Video length: forty six minutes and fifty five seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTMK2S5D8h8 #OldNorse #Manuscripts #Oslo #Norway #Europe. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage “As junk web pages written by AI proliferate, the models that rely on that data will suffer.” https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/24/1095263/ai-that-feeds-on-a-diet-of-ai-garbage-ends-up-spitting-out-nonsense/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology @npub1q8m…4c67 npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🎥 There Is No Escaping Shakespeare. The New York Times #Video length: three minutes and fifty one seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv4fWhObaTM #Shakespeare #Literature #Culture #NYT #NewYorkTimes npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🎥 **There Is No Escaping Shakespeare The New York Times** #Video length: three minutes and fifty one seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv4fWhObaTM #Shakespeare #Literature #Culture #NYT #NewYorkTimes npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 Data Vis Dispatch, July 23 “Clean cut to clean energy, where Brazil is leading among G20 countries. Across the world, most new power plants in 2023 will be for renewable sources, and there’s a good chance that geothermal energy will grow in the United States…” https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-july-23-2024/ #Data #DataViz npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Data Vis Dispatch, July 23 “Clean cut to clean energy, where Brazil is leading among G20 countries. Across the world, most new power plants in 2023 will be for renewable sources, and there’s a good chance that geothermal energy will grow in the United States…” https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-july-23-2024/ #Data #DataViz npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 AI ‘deepfake’ faces detected using astronomy methods “Analysing reflections of light in the eyes can help to determine an image’s authenticity.” https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02364-y #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepFake #Image @npub1q8m…4c67 npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🇺🇸 And the jockeying for pole position beings…. #Breaking #News #USPol #Politics #Biden #US #USA #UnitedStates #America npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 And the jockeying for pole position will being…. #News #USPol #Politics #Biden npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1yln…e2vv I do not remember seeing such a sketch; however, it sounds like something that Dom Jolly might have done in his series Trigger Happy TV. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1yln…e2vv I do not remember seeing such a sketch; however, it sounds like something that Dom Jolly would have done in his series Trigger Happy TV. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 Language co-creation “Just like Romance languages evolved out of Latin, which had been the language spoken in the European capture areas, so did Latin evolve out of the languages spoken in Latium, the area around Rome.” https://www.biblonia.com/p/language-co-creation #Latin #Language #Languages #Linguistics @npub1dny…w7vl npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🏴 A New Map Of Medieval London “Deliciously detailed 13th century plan. And a Tudor one, too.” https://londonist.substack.com/p/a-new-map-of-medieval-london #Map #Maps #Cartography #Medieval #London #England npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴 🇺🇸 It looks like it might be a busy news day today. #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Legal #News #Media npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 🔴🇺🇸 It looks like it might be a busy news day today. #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Legal #News npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 How Has Music Changed Since the 1950s? A Statistical Analysis “The Michigan-based funk band Vulfpeck releases Sleepify, a ten-track album devoid of audible sound. Each track runs 30 seconds long and consists solely of silence. Sleepify is distributed via Spotify, where the band encourages fans to play the album on a loop while they sleep.” https://www.statsignificant.com/p/how-has-music-changed-since-the-1950s-62a #Music #Statistics #Data npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1j7w…swz0 I am torn between adding them or not adding them and have concluded that not adding is probably best. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Timár, Gábor, and Eszter Kiss. 2024. “Web Publication of Schmitt’s Map of Southern Germany (1797)—The Projection of the Map Based on Archival Documents and Geospatial Analysis” ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 13, no. 6: 207. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13060207 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Map #Maps #Cartography #Germany #Europe npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 #Question: should one use a #hashtag or multiple #hashtags in a reply to a #toot? #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 #Question: should one use #hashtags in a reply to a #toot? #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Earlier today I watched a panel #discussion on #television. The topic of concern is not important; however, what is important is the obstinacy of the host and the participants. Is there an all encompassing human imperative to dissemble one’s feelings and the truth whilst trying to win a #television argument? npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Earlier today I watched a panel #discussion on #television. The topic of concern is not important; however, what is important is the obstinacy of the host and the participants. Is there a visceral and universal human imperative to dissemble one’s feelings and the truth whilst trying to win a #television argument? npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 What’s another word for ‘neuronal map-maker’? “Researchers discover microscopic ‘brain thesaurus’ that lets neurons derive meaning from spoken words” https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/07/whats-another-word-for-neuronal-map-maker/ #Research #Language #Brain #Science @npub1fv2…wutw npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub17yu…pxek Sorry for the belated reply and thank you for your comment. I think the author of the piece may be referring to the perception of insularity rather than the actuality of the English being insular. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 The Intersection of Mathematics and Democracy 🎙️ “The conversation covers a wide range of topics, including data visualization, gerrymandering, electoral systems, and the intersection of mathematics and democracy.” https://zencastr.com/z/lDSSdnFL #Audio #Podcast #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Democracy #Politics #Data #DataViz npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Why Reading in Translation Fails Us – Interview with Tim Griffith, creator of Picta Dicta “Who killed Latin? Why should we bother to learn Latin and Ancient Greek, instead of just reading the great works in translation? Why does translation fail us?” 🎥 #Video length: one hour and thirty six minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iPyrul1ND0 #Latin #Ancient #Greek #Language #Languages #Translation #Translations npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 ‘Spermageddon’: is male fertility really in crisis? – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/jul/04/spermageddon-is-male-fertility-really-in-crisis-podcast #Audio #Podcast #Sperm #Male #Fertility #Health #Science @npub1fv2…wutw npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Every meteorite we saw falling down to earth https://blog.datawrapper.de/meteorite-recorded-history/ #Data #DataViz #Map #History #Space #Meteorite #Earth npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1esn…jpyd I wonder if being “morose” is just temporary or descriptive of a longer underlying state? npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 The #enshittification of life. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Not a happy time for some of us…. #Pollen #AllergicRhinitis #Allergy #Allergens #Hayfever https://media.social.qoto.org/media_attachments/files/112/668/054/101/590/009/original/e1c80feb49a8879b.jpeg npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 #Question: when do you think humanity will see the first person to become a trillionaire? #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Economy #Economics @npub13xw…xyzr npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub14p2…pmlk Thank you for the warm welcome. I hope you have a nice day and I look forward to reading your toots. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub18pj…zlnz I find with the algorithm that because I viewed something a minute ago I will be made to view all similar content whether I want to or not. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number “Useful mathematical concepts, like the number line, can linger for millennia before they are rigorously defined.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-square-root-of-2-became-a-number-20240621/ #History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math @npub1fv2…wutw npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 What Did Medieval English Sound Like? #Video length: forty one seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRdFUy8pn2o #Medieval #Medievodons #English #Language #Audio #Sound @npub1mnl…vmww npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1urf…hseg @npub1kt3…5004 Thank you for the recommendation. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Could you add a map of Kirkjubæjarklaustur? “Modern satellite technology has revolutionized mapmaking and Earth observation with high resolution and multispectral imagery as well real time data. Having a GPS system in your pocket is a true privilege! There are countless sources for quality map files, like Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, or census bureaus. So why on Earth can it still be so hard to find reliable maps to visualize your own data?” https://blog.datawrapper.de/basemap-library-requests/ #Map #Maps #Cartography npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1zte…ewqj As someone whose tastes in comedy over time have changed, I can attest to the veracity of the research. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 How Does Our Sense of Humor Change With Age? A Statistical Analysis “This research indicates that as individuals age, their increasing appreciation for incongruity resolution is coupled with a diminished enjoyment of nonsensical humor.” https://www.statsignificant.com/p/how-does-our-sense-of-humor-change #Research #Comedy #Humour #Humor #Joke #Jokes #Statistics #Data npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Light at Night “In the 1300s, one million units of lighting — a lumen-hour — would have cost around £40,800 in 2000 prices. By 2006, this had fallen to £2.90. That is a 14,000-fold decline.” Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie (2023) - “Light at Night”. Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/light-at-night’ [Online Resource]. #Data #DataViz npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain – study “Mental maps may be created and activated when you just think about the route, researchers say.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-usa-b2561430.html #News #Science #Research #Brain #Maps #MIT @npub1fv2…wutw npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain – study “Mental maps may be created and activated when you just think about the route, researchers say.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-usa-b2561430.html #News #Science #Brain #Maps #MIT @npub1fv2…wutw npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1ps8…xwaz The Levanter. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 An amazing #image. #note1jng…jptr npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 The origin of every European country’s name “attempt to explain the origin of every European country’s name in English!” #Video length: twenty three minutes and thirty nine seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pcv2ySMi40 #Name #Names #Word #Words #Language #Languages #Europe #European #Origin #Origins npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 The origin of every European country’s name “attempt to explain the origin of every European country’s name in English!” #Video length: twenty three minutes and thirty nine seconds https://youtu.be/2Pcv2ySMi40 #Name #Names #Word #Words #Language #Languages #Europe #European #Origin #Origins npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1cra…kd5r I agree that deindustrialization is not only problematic but myopic and counterproductive in the long run. It has not worked out well for many. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Does it always have to end in corporate greed? #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #note1qu9…5v3t npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1zva…e2q5 It might be a case of ‘having your cake and eating it’? npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Jaw-dropping views of the Milky Way and more — May’s best science images “The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.” https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-024-01582-8/index.html #Science #Image #Images #Photo #Photos @npub1fv2…wutw npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 5 Things You Didn’t Realize Were Named After People “This video looks at 5 overlooked eponyms that you might encounter on a daily basis.” #Video length: fifty nine seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYZZrV7wASU #Word #Words #Eponyms npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Why Japan’s Economy Is So Fiercely Inefficient | WSJ “WSJ’s Peter Landers explains how being fiercely traditional is weighing down Japan’s economy.” #Video length: five minutes and fifty three seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8MldJsSjl4 #Japan #Japanese #Economy #Traditions #Economics @npub13xw…xyzr npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Is the number of natural disasters increasing? “A deep dive into missing data and the limitations of disaster databases.” Hannah Ritchie and Pablo Rosado (2024) - “Is the number of natural disasters increasing?” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/disaster-database-limitations’ [Online Resource]. #Data #DataViz npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Is the number of natural disasters increasing? “A deep dive into missing data and the limitations of disaster databases.” Hannah Ritchie and Pablo Rosado (2024) - “Is the number of natural disasters increasing?” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/disaster-database-limitations’ [Online Resource]. #Data #DataViz npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 How to Prove 1=0, And Other Maths Illusions - Sarah Hart “These “proofs” reveal some very common logical slips that can go unnoticed when we are trying to prove more plausible statements. And the stakes are high.” #Video length: one hour and three minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ1KvmHcmTI #Lecture #Maths #Mathematics #Math npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 How to Prove 1=0, And Other Maths Illusions - Sarah Hart</strong>"_These “proofs” reveal some very common logical slips that can go unnoticed when we are trying to prove more plausible statements. And the stakes are high._"#Video length: one hour and three minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ1KvmHcmTI#Lecture #Maths #Mathematics #Math npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Financed by Moscow “For quite long periods, at any rate, people can remain undisturbed by obvious lies, either because they simply forget what is said from day to day or because they are under such a constant propaganda bombardment that they become anaesthetized to the whole business.” https://orwell.substack.com/p/financed-by-moscow #Orwell #Propaganda npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 In for a penny (in for a pound). #English #Language #Idiom npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1j7q…zape I wonder if this is a good idea? npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1wfe…kewj This may go someway to explaining it: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/112513905401989149 npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 The cat is finally out of the bag. npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 #WordOfTheDay: haecceity. #WOTD #Word #Words #English #Latin #Language #Languages npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 #WordOfTheDay: trammel. #WOTD #Word #Words #English #Latin #OldFrench #Language #Languages npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Does drinking coffee make your country richer? “So coffee can potentially boost productivity on an individual level. But is this also true on a national level? Today I want to take a not-so-serious look at the relationship between coffee consumption and the productivity of countries.” https://blog.datawrapper.de/coffee-consumption-and-productivity/ #Data #DataViz #Coffee #Productivity #Wealth npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Etymology: guide/wise. #Video length: twenty nine seconds. https://tilvids.com/w/o6bCAoLdCdrVmKXKAXqsjP #Etymology #Linguistics #Language #Languages #Word #Words @npub1dny…w7vl npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Earlier this evening my memory took me back to my teenage years when I would listen to the BBC’s ‘Letter from America’ by Alistair Cooke on the wireless. Alistair’s voice was so distinctive it left a lasting impression on me, so much so that I still remember it decades later. #BBC #Radio #Wireless #Letter #America #Memories npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 Any news on when the new version of #QOTO will be available for us to use? cc: @npub1kpw…xzz4 npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 #QOTO: any news on when the new version of #QOTO will be available for us to use? cc: @npub1kpw…xzz4 npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1he5…85zf @npub1wdh…jxfv At some point along the line is it not always about #oil? npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1he5…85zf @npub1wdh…jxfv At some point along the line is not always about #oil? npub1h73dpngpam7elaxglnzskyzf0vsdxkcfj47t8yh8cmgr6my646cqv9r5fe Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 @npub1j6u…n4gr They may think it will help to sure up their base (over 65s).