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Currently ….

Galileo: Decisive Innovator (Cambridge Science Biographies)

by Michael Sharratt”

What non-fiction book are you currently reading?

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whatzaname ,
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@hoare_spitall @bibliolater @bookstodon i find them greatly dissimilar, unless he was molesting teenagers he brought along for the ride? No?
Didn't think so, or YOU would've spoken up, or at least refused to go along with it silently, and certainly not defending him when the truth came to light

hoare_spitall ,
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@whatzaname @bibliolater @bookstodon
I'm not defending anybody, not even me. But I am aware that sometimes prima facie situations appear to be other than they are, and I have also learned to wait until all the pieces of the jigsaw are on the board before deciding what the picture shows.

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A United States of Europe

A free and unified Europe was first imagined by Italian radicals in the 19th century. Could we yet see their dream made real?

https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-recover-the-radical-vision-of-a-free-and-united-europe

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@bibliolater @histodon @histodons @philosophy it was Winston Churchill’s dream as well

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After the Second World War, Churchill became the greatest pioneer of the European ideal. “If I were 10 years younger,” he told his wife, “I might be the first President of the United States of Europe.”

Source: https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-173/churchills-europe/

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Britain in Palestine 1917-1948

Britain in Palestine 1917-1948 investigates the contradictory promises and actions which defined British Mandatory rule in Palestine and laid the groundwork for the Nakba (the catastrophe) and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The roots of the contemporary social, political, economic, and environmental landscape of Palestine and Israel can be traced back to this period, making it essential viewing for understanding Britain’s legacy in the region and the situation on the ground today.

length: eighteen minutes and thrity seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOJqLTc6RkU

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rdmc ,
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@bibliolater @histodon @histodons When in doubt, blame Britain.

bibliolater OP ,
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For me, it is not about apportioning blame but rather trying to understand the past.

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from
‘Israelis, go back to Europe’? Some on the left need to rethink their slogans
by -AnnMort

"A majority of Israel’s today are not descended from , but rather from nations. To expect them to leave is unprecedented, unrealistic and wrong."

[I don't agree with her opinion on "river to the sea", but I do agree on "go back to Europe".]



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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/15/israelis-go-back-to-europe-slogan?CMP=share_btn_url

gwit ,
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@plink @palestine @israel Yeah the Sephardim are native to Palestine and the rest of Arabia. I dont really like the idea of telling ethnicities to go somewhere anyway, because thats weird. Jews and Arabs can live in harmony if the states and colonisation stopped

heretical_i ,
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@plink That statement about most jews in Israel being Arab is nonsensical and factually baseless garbage. There have been quite a few genetic studies proving that false and you know? My brooklyn neighborhood in the 1960s was full of semitic dark skin jews who fled. The invaders didn't trust them b/c they lived peacefully with the arabs, and the arabs stopped trusting them because most saw it as a tribal issue and conflict. @palestine @israel

faab64 , to israel group

arrested a Jewish man holding a banner "Jews Against " and confiscated his banner.

Isn't that ? Preventing the free speech of a Jewish citizen on broad daylight like this?

Video on : vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQy6hC7/vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQy6hC7/


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Quutamo ,
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@faab64 @palestine @israel

We live in terrible terrible times, that I've got this "is the thought- police watching?" Feeling, before like or repost things like this. 😞

faab64 OP ,

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They are counting on it
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faab64 , to israel group

Imagine the outcrywif this was published by a western media.

It's sickening to see ww are under such amazing censorship that ww can't even publish articles from Israeli media.

Re-publishing this would be a suicide by any European or American media, not just because of its content, but also the fact it portrays IDF as what they really are.

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bibliolater , to anthropology group
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Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia

The directly dated cut-marked bones of ungulates indicate the presence of AMHs in inland Iberia during the early and mid-Upper Paleolithic. The paleoecological inferences suggest that human populations occupied Malia when climatic and ecological conditions were not particularly severe in terms of aridity and temperature.

Nohemi Sala et al., Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia. Sci. Adv.10, eado3807 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado3807

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Royal Society exhibition revives 18th-century debate about shape of the Earth

Some members of the French Academy of Sciences interpreted measurements taken in Paris by scientists including Jacques Cassini as supporting the idea that the Earth was elongated at the poles, resembling a lemon or a melon.

By contrast, Isaac Newton had proposed that the centrifugal force caused by the Earth’s rotation would result in the planet being flattened at its poles, thus having a similar shape to an orange.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/26/royal-society-exhibition-shape-of-the-earth

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Royal Society exhibition revives 18th-century debate about shape of the Earth

“_Some members of the French Academy of Sciences interpreted measurements taken in Paris by scientists including Jacques Cassini as supporting the idea that the Earth was elongated at the poles, resembling a lemon or a melon.

By contrast, Isaac Newton had proposed that the centrifugal force caused by the Earth’s rotation would result in the planet being flattened at its poles, thus having a similar shape to an orange._”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/26/royal-society-exhibition-shape-of-the-earth

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More than 400 formal balls are held in Vienna each winter carnival season in a tradition that dates back to 1814, with breaks only for the two world wars and the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly every profession holds its own dance — some, such as the Hunters' Ball, have outlived the imperial-era jobs they were created to celebrate. For the Dial, writer Jessi Jezewska Stevens attended three balls to try and determine: "On a continent that relishes golden-era traditions yet finds itself slipping in the geopolitical world order, how do you face the future without romanticizing the past?"

https://flip.it/PG5fSB

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bibliolater , to econhist group
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The Ghosts of Max Weber in the Economic History of Preindustrial Europe

References to Weber in the literature on preindustrial Europe published by economists during the last fifty years show that the more economists have rehabilitated culture as an autonomous force of economic change, the more they have heralded Weber as a precursor of their endeavors. The casting of Weber in such terms, moreover, has gone hand in hand with a decline, rather than an increase, in conversations between economists, sociologists, historians, and other humanists and social scientists interested in the role of culture in the formation of modern economic life.

Trivellato, Francesca. “The Ghosts of Max Weber in the Economic History of Preindustrial Europe.” Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics 4, no. 2 (2023): 332-376. https://doi.org/10.1353/cap.2023.a917621.

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Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?

One of the issues that scientists are seeking to resolve is the question of whether or not Neanderthals interbred with Homo sapiens in Britain, as they did in other parts of the world. For good measure, they also want to know if the two species lived alongside each other or whether they replaced each other in successive waves.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/22/does-a-cave-beneath-pembroke-castle-hold-key-to-fate-of-early-britons

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Late Neolithic collective burial reveals admixture dynamics during the third millennium BCE and the shaping of the European genome

To conclude, our study of a Late Neolithic burial enables direct, quasi–real-time observation of the trimodal admixture processes in Europe between 3300 and 2600 cal BCE as steppe ancestry people dispersed and mixed with local Neo-ancestry groups or individuals. The generalization of the results obtained from our data suggests that this genomic transformation took place during a period of profound cultural change.

Oğuzhan Parasayan et al., Late Neolithic collective burial reveals admixture dynamics during the third millennium BCE and the shaping of the European genome. Sci. Adv.10, eadl2468(2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl2468

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🇸🇪 Episode 312: Christina of Sweden, Minerva of the North

In this week’s episode, get to know Christina of Sweden, the keenly intelligent and fiercely independent queen of Sweden, who is remembered today for her passion of learning and knowledge.

https://halfarsedhistory.net/2024/06/16/episode-312-christina-of-sweden-minerva-of-the-north/

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🇸🇪 Episode 312: Christina of Sweden, Minerva of the North

In this week’s episode, get to know Christina of Sweden, the keenly intelligent and fiercely independent queen of Sweden, who is remembered today for her passion of learning and knowledge.

https://halfarsedhistory.net/2024/06/16/episode-312-christina-of-sweden-minerva-of-the-north/

@histodon @histodons @earlymodern

attribution: Claus Grünstäudl w18, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elegant_steel_microphone_(Unsplash).jpg

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