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**Every Bridge and Meadow: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in 19th Century Maps**

“_The new digital collection comprises all editions of all sheets of the Spezialkarte der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie, a detailed topographic survey of the country at a 1:75,000 scale, held in the Geography and Map Division for a grand total of 6,346 digital images._”

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2025/04/every-bridge-and-meadow-the-austro-hungarian-empire-in-19th-century-maps/.

#Map #Maps #Cartography #AustroHungarian #Empire #History #C19th #19thCentury

**Collapse of the dollar shows ‘the biggest damage right now is to the U.S. brand’**

_“What we are going through now is worse than when former President Nixon took us off the gold standard in August 1971,” said Marc Chandler, the New York-based chief market strategist for Bannockburn Global Forex._

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-collapse-of-dollar-shows-the-biggest-damage-right-now-is-to-the-u-s-brand-edc17ba4.

#USA #US #UnitedStates #Dollar #Currencies #Markets #Forex

**Joint Sovereigns**

On 11th April 1689 William III and Mary II were crowned joint sovereigns over England, Scotland, and Ireland.

#History #OnThisDay #OTD #England #Scotland #Ireland

#Image attribution: R White, engraver, died 1703, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William%26MaryEngraving1703.jpg.

**Guide to Josephos of Jerusalem**

Philip A. Harland, 'Guide to Josephos of Jerusalem,' Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World, last modified February 26, 2024, https://philipharland.com/Blog/?p=16236.

#Ancient #Ethnography #Ethnicity

**‘China will fight to the very end’ in trade war - China analyst**

Channel 4 News

_‘China has been here for 5000 years. Most of the time, there was no United States and we survived’_

#Video length: one minute and thirty-seven seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xof9FwrCrsg

#China #USA #US #UnitedStates #Tariffs #Trade #TradeWar #Economics @economics

**Good Friday**

Dave Wilton

“_In Old and Middle English, the adjective god (good) could mean pious, devout, morally perfect, so the good in Good Friday is a linguistic relic meaning holy, in other words, Holy Friday._”

https://wordorigins-org.ghost.io/good-friday/.

#GoodFriday #English #Language #Words #Eytmology #Linguistics @linguistics

**Skepticism about the science establishment, then and now**

“_In recent years, so many nonfiction books seem to be written to the airport-book template: 10 chapters, each starting with some personal anecdote, tons of repetition, almost nothing there. Even books with high-quality information provide very little of it, perhaps because the expectation is that no one will read these books from beginning to end anyway._”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/11/51458/.

#Read #Science #Literature #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @science

**Evidence of the Zanclean megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin**

“_Our findings provide evidence for a large amplitude drawdown in the Ionian Basin during the MSC, support the scenario of a Mediterranean-wide catastrophic flood at the end of the MSC, and suggest that the identified sedimentary body is the largest known megaflood deposit on Earth._”

Micallef, A., Camerlenghi, A., Garcia-Castellanos, D. et al. Evidence of the Zanclean megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Sci Rep 8, 1078 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19446-3.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Geology #Geomorphology #Geophysics #Sedimentology #Flood #Mediterranean #Academia #Academics @geology

** Tariffs And The Bond Market**

Who would have thought that the international bond market was a 'co-equal branch' of the administration?

#BondMarket #Markets #Tariffs #Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon

**“I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer”: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column**

“_A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical_”

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691253992/i-humbly-beg-your-speedy-answer.

#C16th #16thCentury #Nonfiction #Read #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon

**The Risky Business of Geoengineering**

Bloomberg Originals

“_Is geoengineering a dangerous notion whose time has come? Scientists and entrepreneurs are testing radical ideas like solar radiation management and ocean fertilization - and finding funding for it._”

#Video length: twenty-four minutes and one second.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnXHJD0UI5U

#Risk #Geoengineering #Science #Technology #Tech #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @climatechange @science

**Book Review: The Lure of Economic Nationalism: Beyond Zero Sum. Kenneth A. Reinert**

“_Reinert provides a meticulous analysis of unilateralism, ethno-nationalism and the pitfalls of zero-sum economic thinking and envisages meaningful alternatives such as multilateralism and civic nationalism, writes Ivan Radanović._”

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2025/04/10/book-review-the-lure-of-economic-nationalism-beyond-zero-sum-kenneth-a-reinert/.

#Nonfiction #Economics #Nationalism #Globalisation #BookReview #Review #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon @economics

**‘Everything is possible’**

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n07/james-meek/everything-is-possible.

#LRB #Greenland #Denmark #USA #US #UnitedStates

**AI is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres while offering the potential to transform how the energy sector works**

_“Global electricity demand from data centres is set to more than double over the next five years, consuming as much electricity by 2030 as the whole of Japan does today. The effects will be particularly strong in some countries. For example, in the United States, data centres are on course to account for almost half of the growth in electricity demand; in Japan, more than half; and in Malaysia, as much as one-fifth.”

https://www.iea.org/news/ai-is-set-to-drive-surging-electricity-demand-from-data-centres-while-offering-the-potential-to-transform-how-the-energy-sector-works.

#News #Data #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #Tech #Electricity #Energy @ai

**Chart: The Average U.S. Tariff Rate (1890-2025)**

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-average-u-s-tariff-rate-since-1890/.

#History #Tariffs #Trade #USA #US #UnitedStates #Data #DataViz

**Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition**

“_We find that evidence-based language has continued to decline since the mid-1970s, together with a decline in legislative productivity. The decline was accompanied by increasing partisan polarization in Congress and rising income inequality in society._”

Aroyehun, S.T., Simchon, A., Carrella, F. et al. Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02136-2.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Language #Linguistics #Psychology #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates @psychology @linguistics

**Harmful effects of digital tech – the science ‘needs fixing’, experts argue**

“_In the latest Science paper, the researchers point out that technology companies often follow policies of rapidly deploying products first and then looking to “debug” potential harms afterwards. This includes distributing generative AI products to millions before completing basic safety tests, for example._”

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/harmful-effects-of-digital-tech-the-science-needs-fixing-experts-argue.

#Research #News #SocialMedia #Digital #Technology #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MentalHealth @ai