"The Illusion of Moral Decline"
I'm appreciating this study by Adam Mastroianni today. The next time someone waxes poetic about "the good old days" and how people were so much kinder and more virtuous in the past, I think I'll send them this link. 😁
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#morality #science #history
The short version of the paper I just publishedAdam Mastroianni (Experimental History)
Every year I do an activity on the fugitive slave law & civil disobedience. We talk about whether protest is worthwhile and when, if ever, it's ok to break the law to stand for moral principles.
In past years, most students were pretty cynical & said protest wasn't helpful; they wouldn't risk their own safety and security for civil disobedience. Today, numerous students said that the risk to the country of not protesting for what is right was greater than the personal risk of getting arrested.
What has changed, beyond the random mix of students? My best guess is that the frequency of protests, esp by young people, has an influence, as does the very real sense in their generation that there are serious and urgent problems in the world. That said, when I asked how many of them had ever engaged in protest or civil disobedience, only 3/23 had.
The full lesson is on my website: cassandragoodhistorian.com/202…
#histodons #history #teaching #ethics
Several years ago, I designed a lesson as part of a faculty ethics workshop at Marymount University that has now become one of my favorite discussions of the semester in my early U.S. survey course…Cassandra Good
The incredibly rare original ADR-take of the entire Wilhelm Scream recording session has been found! blog.freesound.org/?p=1515
Here’s some history about the Wilhelm Scream: allthatsinteresting.com/wilhel…
#SoundEffects #SoundRecording #WilhelmScream #History #Movies #Audio
Recorded for the 1951 movie "Distant Drums," the Wilhelm Scream has since been used in films and TV shows including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, the Simpsons, and hundreds more.William DeLong (All That's Interesting)
L7, Babes in Toyland, Bikini Kill and Lunachicks.
Thanks to the punk rock god for these bands.
What is your favorite female punk rock band?
For me, L7 will always be number 1
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #history #punkrockhistory
Happy Birthday to Walter Rodney, who was born #OTD in Guyana in 1942! After becoming a professor in Jamaica, he was barred from the country for his communist views, a decision which caused riots in his support. He later taught and lectured around the world, especially in Tanzania. His book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” made him a towering figure in anti-colonial circles.
You can buy today's artwork here: l-boe.redbubble.com/
#history #Guyana #communism #PanAfricanism #HiaG #Mar23
L-BOE is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.Redbubble
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness.Wellcome Collection
Physicist John Tyndall is often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.
But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3 years earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.
Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. climate.gov/news-features/feat… #history #science #ClimateChange
American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect.NOAA Climate.gov
I remember seeing a presentation about municipal #history & how at one point roads were all privately maintained.
We do have toll roads still, but I think we can all agree that most roads are maintained by our taxes.
Synth genius Wendy Carlos studied physics & #music at Brown & Columbia. She helped develop the first Moog synthesizer & her 1968 classical album Switched-On Bach went platinum. She brought music & tech together & composed soundtracks for A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Tron & more.
Carlos was assigned male at birth & transitioned to female. Unfortunately, many journalists focus more on her gender than her accomplishments that changed music forever. wendycarlos.com #history
The Official Wendy Carlos HomePage. The definitive Web collection of information about the pioneer synthesist and composer (and solar eclipse photographer), including a "Write Wendy" Maildrop.www.wendycarlos.com
I've been collecting interesting examples of information organisation in history, focusing on non-Western civilisations. I came across this example of an ancient Mesopotamian spreadsheet! It records wages paid to temple workers in 1295 BCE.
#History #AncientHistory #Cuneiform #Mesopotamia #CognitiveHistory
The first version of the .NET framework was released on January 15, 2002, for Windows 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP.
In the 13th century a 7 year old schoolboy named Onfim doodled on his birch bark. He drew himself as a warrior & as “a wild beast” and scribbled a greeting to his friend Daniel.
These are his drawings, unearthed by archaeologists near Novgorod, Russia #history
Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.
Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.
Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. aps.org/publications/apsnews/2… #women #history #science #energy
A court in Germany on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder in over 10,000 cases for her role as a secretary to the commandant of the German Nazi concentration camp Stutthof during World War II.
Irmgard Furchner was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp function. The Itzehoe state court in northern Germany gave her a two-year suspended sentence.
More: apnews.com/article/prisons-dce…
#Stutthof #history #Nazis #Germany #SS #justice #woman #trial
BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.Geir Moulson (Associated Press)
This is a nostalgic look back at the evolution of personal websites, and a look forward to how we can recreate this magic today. It's a manifesto for buildin...YouTube
Kamoinge is a group of black Photographers who formed in 1963.
Their mission statement: "Honour, document, preserve, & represent the history & culture of the African Diaspora with integrity & respect for humanity through the lens of Black Photographers"
This wonderful work is important to counterbalance the whitewashing of #History by mainly white, middle-class historians/reporters throughout time.
#BlackHistory #Photography #BlackMastodon #AmericanHistory #BlackTwitter
Pianist Thomas ‘Blind Tom’ Wiggins, who became the first African-American to perform at the White House, had his talents taken advantage of from an early age.Sophia Alexandra Hall (Classic FM)
Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?
Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists like Carnegie & Rockefeller.
But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.
Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history #women #HistoryRemix
What was your first computer?
Please share if you remember the brand, model number, CPU or how great it was. Boost is very appreciated.
Scientists make ‘exciting’ breakthrough in Amelia Earhart mystery
"Hidden letters and numbers discovered on aluminium panel believed to be from famous aviator’s aircraft"
Good morning. Here’s a quote for today. What’s the most important park of the quote? Mine is is in the reply. I’ll do a conversation topic post tomorrow. 😊
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #BlackAcademics #BlackDiaspora #BIPoc #black #blacklivesmatter #blackisbeautiful #diversity #DiversityEquityInclusion #dei #mastodon #racism #antiracist #asian #indigenous #indigenousPeople #mena #history #NativeAmerican #native #PursueBlackJoy
Really liked this podcast episode with Culture as Code. a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/c… really liked how Ben Horowitz talked about Haiti's revolution & Toussaint Louverture's leadership. I first read about it in C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins. More recently in the Revolutions podcast. It is not often that you hear business leaders talking about his leadership though.
#CLRJames #HaitiRevolution #History #Business #Podcast #RevolutionsPodcast
This is how the most exciting concerts are 👊
L7 in concert ➡️ an incredibly hot and sweaty night in Nashville, Tennessee in 1992. No stage, no barricade, total chaos total blast. Photo by Honey Salvadori
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #L7 #history #punkrockhistory
The greatest African scholar of the 16th century, Ahmed Baba.
According to John Henrik Clarke, Ahmed Baba’s life was a brilliant example of the range and depth of West African intellectual activity before the colonial era.
Ahmed Baba was born on Oct. 26, 1556, in Arwán, near Timbuktu, to the teacher, Ahmad bin al-Hajj Ahmad bin Umar bin Muhammed Aqit. He moved to Timbuktu at an early age to study with his father.
Ahmed Baba’s work ranged from biographies to commentaries, and he was one of the most celebrated professors. He was also the last Chancellor at the University of Sankore, Timbuktu. The University of Sankore has been compared to other higher learning institution during Muslim civilisation such as Al-Azhar in Egypt, Al-Qayrawan in Tunisia, Al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco and Qurtuba University in Spain. It also said to be a source of pride amongst African- Caribbean communities worldwide as it was a great intellectual institution dating back to civilisations in Mali, Ghana, and Songhai particularly during the 12th to 16th centuries.
Ahmed Baba strove to bring together the different ethnic groups that coexisted in Timbuktu at the time. For him, ethnic differences were less important than to knowledge. The Moroccans, despite holding Baba in open arrest, also considered him fully-fledged scholar.
Timbuktu’s institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research, which houses some 30,000 manuscripts and is one of Africa’s most important collections of Islamic scholarly texts and historical chronicles, is named after Ahmed Baba.
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The greatest African scholar of the 16th century, Ahmed Baba. According to John Henrik Clarke, Ahmed Baba’s life was a brilliant example of the range and depth of West African intellectual activity before the colonial era. Ahmed Baba was born on Oct.Jonathan (SchoolForAfrica.org)
Since it has been a increase of users lately, I'll follow the stream and #introduce myself 🙂 Better late than never.
My real name is Erik and I live in Sweden. Airikr is the old name of Erik from medieval Sweden.
My main interests are #programming, #photography, #cycling, #astronomy, #exploration, and #history.
I am a big fan of #opensource and #selfhosting and are working on open sourced projects like #serenum.
Following the 🧵 scholar.social/@andi/108166583…
My project aims to study the role of women within the Global Indigenous Movement #GIM since the foundation of the World Wide Web.
From a transnational perspective, I focus on indigenous women's organizations native to Brazil,
Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, India, Kurdistan and (even) Europe.
I am interested in their online self-representations: the way they make and theorize their own #history.
Content warning: A little bit on my master's research (Indigenous Women's History)Scholar Social
Hello fellow humans (+machines)!!! Here's an #Introduction
I'm not-new to Mastodon but am a new sprout in scholar.social.
I'm a Global Southerner currently writing a thesis on Indigenous Women's #History.
I consider myself a go-between. As a historian, I'm a cultural mediator in-between past/present. Plus, I'm a translator and wikimedian. I edit scientific knowledge in academia outer-space and love to tackle meanings across languages.
Here I'm engaged in knowledge sharing and other funsies.
