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One of the shortcomings of the Fermi Paradox is assuming either the capabilities or intentions of a potentially Type 2 civilization from a Type 0 civilization (on the Kardashev scale) viewpoint.
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Why We Can’t Rule Out Alien Spaceships in Earth’s Atmosphere (Yet)
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In my opinion, MEMENTOES Project is the most interesting case of collab between gamedev and museums in recent years. Keep an eye on it, #historicalgamestudies #digitalheritage #virtualheritage
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Have you ever heard about Robert Maxwell? Mr Maxwell was a media mogul, member of the UK parliament, and fraudster. As the co-founder of Pergamon Press, Maxwell was instrumental in creating the profit-focused publication system we currently use. Join the Lunch & Learn session on April 17th to learn more about Maxwell's impact on scientific publishing! (sign up link in the comment section)
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I have wondered this before....what is important enough to get into the U.S. Library of Congress? And this article spells it out! Today the US Library of Congress continues the tradition of conserving knowledge with one of the largest library collections ever compiled. It is home to more than 175 million works humans have produced, from e-books to ancient scrolls, which it aims to preserve for future generations. The library’s role as the research arm of Congress and a preserver of primary sources in American history means it has some of the U.S.’s most important documents, including a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln’s first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. But its scope extends far beyond the country’s borders; items such as 2,000-year-old Mesopotamian clay tablets and 18th-century Iranian prayer scrolls (written on parchment made from gazelle skins) are among its artifacts—along with Atari video games. Approximately half of its collection is not in English. Along with physical media, as of 2024, the library held about 184 petabytes of digital information, from three-dimensional digitized artifacts to patents. Converted into DVDs, that would be about 39 million disks. And if those disks were stacked atop one another, they would tower 29 miles high—a span equivalent to about 106 Empire State Buildings. Selection by the Library of Congress ensures an item will be available for researchers hundreds of years from now. Even a library this extensive can only preserve a fraction of the books published annually worldwide, not to mention the scholarly articles, legal materials, international reports, newspapers, songs, television series and video games. Scientific American spoke with the library’s collection development officer Joseph Puccio, who retired last month, and director for preservation Jacob Nadal, to learn about how the Library of Congress makes its decisions about shaping our society’s collective memory https://lnkd.in/gwz-F6mt
How Does the World’s Largest Library Decide What Becomes History?
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“One aspect of science, however, is a good model for our behavior, especially in times like these, when so many people seem to be sure that they are right and their opponents are wrong. It is the ability to say, “Wait—hold on. I might have been wrong.” One of my best bosses would put in doubt all my certainties with the magic phrase ‘where is this written’ (dove sta scritto?). Big development learning I followed all my life, dear Luigi Luciani. Changing one’s mind based on evidence should not be only for scientists. #science #data #agility #leadership
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Science Improves When People Realize They Were Wrong
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This reminds me of the early modern tracking numbers in my upcoming book.
📢 Woohoo, our article “Medieval Seal Bags Unravelled: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration” just appeared in Materia: Journal of Technical Art History. You can access it here (for free): https://lnkd.in/dQXDNKKU 🎎 It has been an incredible experience to collaborate with my wonderful colleagues Lucía Pereira Pardo, Ana Cabrera Lafuente, Paul Dryburgh, Elizabeth New, and Ina Vanden Berghe. Many thanks to the journal’s editors, especially @Bianca Garcia, and the anonymous peer reviewers. 🐦 This article resulted from the project “Out of the Bag: Unravelling Medieval Seal Bags through Cultural Studies and Scientific Analysis,” PIs Jitske Jasperse and Lucía Pereira Pardo, ref. 514–SRF project “Out of the Bag,” funded by the Strategic Research Fund 2022–2023 of The National Archives, UK.
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I am pleased to announce my review of Tomas Pernecky's edited collection 'Postdisciplinary Knowledge' has been published in Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal. https://lnkd.in/e9gsR8uM #BookReview #JournalArticle #Postdisciplinarity #Exchanges
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Science means being able to change your mind in light of new evidence https://trib.al/d6rhISy
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