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@Lyn If this is really an artifact from 900-1430 AD I would not have done this! #history #archeology #sacrilege
💁🏻♀️ TIL: Researchers in #Brazil reconstructed 3.3 million years of #tropical #vegetation #history and projected changes by 2050.
They found that #climatechange could produce #ecosystem shifts within decades that took millions of years to unfold naturally. Species that evolved in stable tropical refuges, including much of the Malay #Archipelago, face the highest risk from this compression of change over time.
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#climate #amazon #biodiversity #deforestation #globalwarming #ecology #science #ufmg #machinelearning #conservation
Impact of climate change may be equivalent to 3.3 million years of transformations in tropical vegetation
Changes that took millions of years can now happen in a matter of decades, and this accelerated rythm can be destructive, with dangerous consequences for the planetThe Conversation
J, Draper & PBS : Masculinity Has Always Been "In Crisis": The London History Show
Since The Term Was Coined It has Been "In Crisis"
Being Queer Was Illegal In Early America - Unless you were a "Guy"
Two Little Documentaries that were made as a combined effort, one in the UK and the second in the USA.
#PBS #JDraper #History #ColonialAmerica #Macaronis #1700s #PostSevenYearsWar
Being Queer Was Illegal in Early America- Unless You Were This Guy
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.PBS Origins (YouTube)
Diatoms and the Meaning of Life
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#Art #History #Microbiology #Nature #Science
Diatoms and the Meaning of Life
In 1703, the world’s most esteemed scientific journal published a surprising letter from an anonymous correspondent. (At the time, until well into the twentieth century, anonymity often meant…Maria Popova (The Marginalian)
Imagine upsetting people so much with your thoughtlessness that you get arrested.
Maybe people will think twice before letting the AI make the decisions.
Maybe....
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#AI #AIHustle #Starbucks #SouthKorea #Business #History
How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea
A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestormRaphael Rashid (the Guardian)
Judge orders regime to leave quote panels at Bunker Hill alone and restore similar displays at national parks across the country
US District Court Angel Kelley's order bans the National Park Service from obeying a regime diktat to remove Bunker Hill panels with quotes praising immigrants and condemning slavery and the Vietnam War because some MAGAfied visitor objected. And her order for a stay requires the National Park Service to restore displays it had removed at other sites across the country on everything from climate change to the importance of sites to Native Americans while park advocates continue their suit to make the ban permanent.
Drawing A Line In The Sand Where the Nation Began
#History #Nation #USA #Boston #BunkerHill #NationalParksService #NoKings #MAGALies #NoMoreTrumpies #BostonStrong
Remember California and How It Went Blue, Texas
#History #Wilson #CA #TX #Trump #Anti-ImmigrantPlatform #MakeHistoryRepeat
This is what #trump is doing to #Texas … and the country. #immigration #latino #deportation
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.Ohh that's RICH (YouTube)
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She rode through London in a coach pulled by eight white bulls, wore dresses that scandalized Samuel Pepys into near-incoherence, and published critiques of both Hobbes and Descartes. She also wrote science fiction 152 years before *Frankenstein*. Her name was Margaret Cavendish — the woman who kept writing the future while her century tried to close the door.
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Before 1993, women weren’t allowed to wear pants on the Senate floor. That changed when Sen. Moseley Braun (D-IL), & Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) wore trousers - shocking the male-dominated Senate. This eventually led to the dress code being clarified to allow women to wear pants. Credit: Liberal Jane Illustration liberaljane.com #history #uspol
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On this day in 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe took a photo of our planet from approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) away.
"Commissioned by NASA and resulting from the advocacy of astronomer and author Carl Sagan, the photograph was interpreted in Sagan's 1994 book, Pale Blue Dot, as representing humanity's minuscule and ephemeral place amidst the cosmos."
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#OnThisDay #OTD #history #space #science #nasa #PaleBlueDot #humanity
Nasa 're-masters' classic 'Pale Blue Dot' image of Earth
The US space agency reprocesses the Voyager probe's iconic "Pale Blue Dot" picture of Planet Earth.By Jonathan Amos (BBC News)
Right. Today the FBI descended on the Fulton, Georgia voting data (for 2020), in an apparent effort to "re-prove" the "fake" election results then (which led to Jan 6 plus impeachment). As the GA Senator just noted, this is pre-shadowing Trump's election strategy (reprise) to do whatever he can to interfere with the next election and also (of course) undo the result of the last one, as he re-writes all of #truth & #history.
Cambridge was home to the first Christmas tree in Massachusetts
Another Cambridge History "First" Most Folks Don't Know About
#History #MA #Cambridge #Xmas #CambridgeDay
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The History of Earth as a 24 hr clock. Humans have only just arrived.
Note: I first came across this image through UW-Madison geology. #science #history
Jared Diamond Was Wrong... Easter Island Was NOT Deforested By the Natives To Make Moa
When Other Scientific disciplines are brought in to bear along with a wider understanding of History the old theories fall apart.
How We Beat The Fascists Last Time: The London History Show
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The invention of the ox-drawn plough was a turning point in the #prehistory of #agriculture because it was the first time food production was decoupled from human labour (doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.105).
This is why, from Medieval Europe to the ancient Near East, farms were measured by the number of oxen (later horses etc.) working it, not people (doi.org/10.1002/9781118970959.…)
Yet it's surprisingly difficult to pinpoint when this actually happened.
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Île Saint-Honorat (Fortified monastery of Abbey Lérins)
Bronica SQ-A Camera
Bronica 50mm f3.5 Lens
Kodak TMax 400 Film
Rodinal R09 Developer 1:49
Ilford Rapid Fixer 1:9
Fotospeed RA50 Wetting Agent 1:200
#ÎleSaintHonorat #SaintHonorat #Honorat #IleSaintHonorat #Bronica #BronicaSQ #BronicaSQA #ZenzaBronicaSQ #mediumformat #filmphotography #photography #zenzanon50mm #Kodak #tmax400 #kodaktmax400 #Rodinal #R09 #Ilford #architecture #history #abbey #monastery
For Cambridge, July 3 is the claim to fame
Cambridge - Where the Continental Army First Formed In The American Revolution
#History #AmericanRevolution #MA #Cambridge #Washington #GeorgeWashington
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Happy birthday to Dr. Cecilia Payne! Her 1925 PhD thesis has been described as “the most brilliant ever written in astronomy.”
At a time when few women entered academia, Payne discovered what the universe is made of. Her work began a revolution in astrophysics & more should know her name. #science #history
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I don't know the source or year.
Labeled "Beatrix Potter and Xarifa" 🙂 💕
#BeatrixPotter and her pet #mouse #history
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Beatrix Potter is best remembered for her charming tales of Peter Rabbit, but did you know she also studied #science?
Potter collected & examined beetles, butterflies, plants, bird eggs, shells, rocks, fossils & especially fungi. She conducted experiments & wrote a scientific paper with her own illustrations, presented at the Linnean Society of London. However, as a woman in the Victorian era, she couldn’t even attend the meeting.#history #art #books
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There are currently over 8 billion people on Earth. Yes, that’s a lot BUT there are about 1.4 billion insects for every human. Combined, they weigh about 70x more than all of us.
And insects have been around for over 350 million years. That's longer than the dinosaurs. Modern humans only showed up between 200-300,000 years ago.
We need insects to survive. They don't need us. This is their world. #science #history
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The history of Earth as the length of a human’s outstretched arm - representing 4.5 billion years of time.
At this scale, humans emerged so recently that we could be filed off from a microscopic slice at the very tip of a fingernail.
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Born in 1914, Hedy Lamarr was a famous American actress who pioneered the technology that would lead to WiFi, GPS, cell phones & Bluetooth communication.
Lamarr was brilliant. Among many fascinating inventions, she developed a new communication system with composer George Antheil that used “frequency hopping” among radio waves.
Once called the “most beautiful woman in the world," Lamarr is now remembered as "the mother of Wi-Fi."
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#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
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About 250M years ago, 90% of species on Earth died during the Permian extinction. All of that loss created a lot of vacant niches to fill.
And not long after, the first mammals, our ancestors, appeared.
Life on this pale blue dot will be resilient - whether we’re part of it or not. #science #nature #history
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David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka have traveled the width and breadth of Eastern Europe, photographing the region’s unique brutalist architecture. "Eastern Blocks II," the duo's new book, captures some of these stark scenes.
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#books #brutalism #design #architecture #europe #photography #history
More Than 180 Photographs Chronicle Brutalist Suburbs and Public Buildings in 'Eastern Blocks II' — Colossal
Zupagrafika's 'Eastern Blocks II' chronicles the brutalist housing estates and public structures of the Eastern Bloc.Kate Mothes (Colossal)
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#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.
In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
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If you’re not sure why the FDA is critical or doubt we need scientists monitoring our food system, read up on the 1858 scandal in NY killed 8,000 children “traced to the use of impure milk.” smithsonianmag.com/history/sur… #science #history #uspol
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The father of evolutionary biology, Charles Darwin, was born on this day in 1809.
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How the highlighter was invented in Cambridge by Carter’s Ink, an innovator back to the 1800s
A Piece Of Cambridge MA History Most Folks Didn't Know
#History #LocalHistory #Highlighters #Invention #Cambridge #MA
Tiffany & Company - Liars or Time Travellers
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Vivian Maier was a nanny who, for decades, took photos she never expected anyone to see. She rarely looked at them herself, often didn't develop the negatives and kept the pictures in storage lockers that she eventually stopped paying for so the contents were auctioned off. @Smithsonianmag tells the story of how she came to be considered one of the great street photographers of the 20th century, with a major retrospective on view now at Fotografiska New York.
Link: flip.it/aadovS
#Photography #Photos #History @histodons #Culture
Meet Vivian Maier, the Reclusive Nanny Who Secretly Became One of the Best Street Photographers of the 20th Century
The self-taught artist is getting her first museum exhibition in New York City, where she nurtured her nascent interest in photographyEllen Wexler (Smithsonian Magazine)
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I simply adore this photo of James Earl Jones & Big Bird.
Yes, he played a lot of memorable dads from Darth Vader to Mufasa to King Jaffe Joffer + countless other incredible roles on & offscreen.
And Mr. Jones also happened to be the very first celebrity guest on Sesame Street. #history #media #art
In case you need some inspiration, Mister Rogers, Julia Child, LeVar Burton, Bob Ross & the wonderful folks at PBS have you covered.
The Vice Presidents That America Forgot
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The hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west
"The flow of knowledge to Europe on maths, astronomy and much more has gone unacknowledged by historians"
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#astronomy #mathematics #history
‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west
The flow of knowledge from India to Europe on everything from maths to astronomy has gone unacknowledged by historiansWilliam Dalrymple (The Guardian)