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An Arabic Citrical History
5 min · · One day, I realized that the Arabic words for citrus fruits just don’t add up. In Arabic, the word for orange is burtuqal (or, depending on the dialect, burtuqan, burduqan, burdaqan…), … · Shared by 6, including Josep M. Ganyet
Smithsonian Magazine
Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia
18+ min · · A revolutionary American scientist is using subatomic physics to decipher 2,000-year-old texts from the early days of Western civilization · Shared by 19, including Eric W. Dolan, Josep M. Ganyet, Jane
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Is Human Intelligence Simple? Part 1: Evolution and Archaeology
5 min · · How did we get so smart? · Shared by 332, including Josep M. Ganyet
Ars Technica
AI helps decipher first text of “unreadable” ancient Herculaneum scroll
5 min · · Computer science student Luke Farritor won $40,000 from the Vesuvius Challenge. · Shared by 4, including Josep M. Ganyet
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The Birthplace of AI
11+ min · · An essay about the 1956 “Dartmouth workshop” · Shared by 19, including Ronald van Loon, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Josep M. Ganyet, Anita Leirfall
Brain Pickings
Darwin Among the Machines: A Victorian Visionary’s Prophetic Admonition for Saving Ourselves from Enslavement by Artificial Intelligence
11+ min · · “Our bondage will steal upon us noiselessly and by imperceptible approaches.” · Shared by 14, including Josep M. Ganyet, Charles Duhigg
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Ja es pot consultar en línia el fons fotogràfic Lluís Cruset Ballart
1 min · · DIJOUS 28 D'ABRIL DE 2022 El fons està format principalment per fotografia de premsa. Un cop acabades les feines de digitalització i catalogació, el CRDI posa a disposició del públic, a través del web… · Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet
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El Museu Rom s'inaugurar el 26 de mar
· Hi haur jornada de portes obertes, i activitats ldiques per a tota la famlia - Desprs de les diferents fases d'excavacions i obres, i del procs de musetzaci, el diumenge 26 de mar s'inaugurar el Museu Rom, convertit ja en un jaciment arqueolgic musetzat. · Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet
BBC News (World)
The Star Wars posters of Soviet Europe
6 min · · Behind the Iron Curtain, artists created strikingly trippy ads for the saga, writes Christian Blauvelt. · Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet
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Women in Science | Smithsonian Institution
· Explore women in science history through the Smithsonian's collections and meet some of our scientists. See more from Smithsonian Institution Archives' Women in Science Wednesday.... Learn more · Shared by 4, including Josep M. Ganyet
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Guillem Perramon: “El so permet posar la història a la nostra disposició”
3 min · · Runes és el nom del pòdcast que reconstrueix la història de la ja desapareguda església de Sant Pere Màrtir de Manresa, una idea de Guillem Perramon que li ha valgut el primer premi universitari al… · Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet
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Holocaust survivors use AI imagery to keep stories alive
· Ehudith Bracha Serchook narrowly escaped death when her family fled Nazi-allied forces storming the Crimean city of Odesa in 1941, saved only by a lost sandal which made her miss her place on a passenger ship shortly before it was bombed. · Shared by 6, including Josep M. Ganyet