Spanish mathematicus and physicus Michael Servetus (Span. Miguel Serveto), who discovered the small or pulmonary blood circulation, was born 29 September 1511 #histscithonyc.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/n...

Not a martyr for science.

Those who still mistakenly subscribe to the White-Draper hypothesis of a war of religion against science, and these days it is mostly gnu atheists and their ilk, invariably produce lists of the mar…

The word 'cashew' comes from the Tupi word "akaîu" (in Eduardo Navarro's spelling system), pronounced /aka'ju/. I *think* the pirate William Dampier was the first person to use the spelling ⟨cashew⟩ in English, in his 1703 "Voyage to New-Holland" (p.68). (But I could be wrong.)

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In case you didn’t know this is a cashew, that little thing on top is a cashew nut. It is native to the Brazilian northeast. We eat the fruit, you can make juice, soda, caipirinha, compote, you name it. I personally like to cut it in circles and eat it with lime and salt.

Annual reminder that Hancock and his pseudoarchaeology would have us believe that brown ancient civilisations are not capable of having created amazing things and that it was a mysterious white race that created them: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Any ice-age telepaths out there? Please explain why Netflix is revisiting Ancient Apocalypse | Catherine Bennett

A catastrophe is indeed looming in letting Graham Hancock return with his oddball theories, now with Keanu Reeves in tow

My Element is out out featuring several #earlymodernwww.cambridge.org/core/element...

Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

Spanish mathematicus and physicus Michael Servetus (Span. Miguel Serveto), who discovered the small or pulmonary blood circulation, was born 29 September 1511 #histscithonyc.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/n...

Not a martyr for science.

Those who still mistakenly subscribe to the White-Draper hypothesis of a war of religion against science, and these days it is mostly gnu atheists and their ilk, invariably produce lists of the mar…

At this point it might be useful to know which academic publishers do NOT have agreements to feed their authors’ content into LLMs, if any, and try to go with them.

TEN HOURS of philosophy podcasting gold have just dropped on the #HoPWaGwww.historyofphilosophy.net/bonus-episodes#philsky#philosophie#leibniz#hegel#nietzsche

Published the first report on Cook’s second voyage

Fund libraries 📚 📜 🌊 #Helene

🔊Londoners: are you a lover of classical #choral#cosmologyoae.co.uk/event/bach-t...

Bach, the Universe and Everything: Mapping the Dark Universe - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

We are joined by Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, for a special season opener which also includes a cantata premiered almost exactly 300 years ago.