Agree, expertise matters...this suggest that proximity and attention also matter. If the father was a doctor, then the mother and child were likely seeing a doctor on a daily or near daily basis? Is this the key for lowering MMR in the US?
For more about on maternal mortality rates and the positive impacts of doulas (who provide higher levels of more frequent attention, not necessarily higher expertise) see this morning's edition of S3T:
It was pure joy to be back in Oxford - the first time in four years - for the UKFIET Conference.
I spoke on the need for epistemic humility as we move forward to question accepted knowledges, and asked the question, ‘Why is epistemic humility provocative?’
My ideas stem from my paper for the UNESCO Education and Research Foresight Working Paper Series and on work I am continuing with #NORRAG now.
@prachisrivas@academicchatter@deflarerOfClouds I wonder if you’re using Firefox. I’ve noticed that Firefox is willing to wait longer for a website to respond than Chromium. I use ungoogled chromium over tor, so it’s possible that it gave up early in my case.
The Sakya Monastery in tibet has a library comprising some 84,000 books. Most are Buddhist scriptures, but there are works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art. They date back centuries.
In 2011 they began to digitize the library. All books are indexed and about 20% have been fully digitized.
@estelle
It is good to have multiple voices raising awareness.
Keep an skeptical eye on anything Dave Troy produces, though. His past reporting (out of nowhere) centered himself and his research into Russian Cosmism when Gebru & Torres’ (and several others) had already been calling out EA and Longtermism for months or years. He made no mention of them or their work at the time. I’m glad he’s citing their work now.
@toolbear@estelle@sociology@ethics@kcarruthers The second paragraph in the story is about Timnit coining the term, not sure why you're going after Dave Troy who is a journalist reporting ion these things (and who has a much clearer understanding of the trouble we are in than most mainstream journalists seem to have).
Ancient Knowledge Networks: A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia
Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.
Reminder: #CfP for the #conference "Undoing #Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century". which will take place at the University of Leuven (#KU_Leuven) on December 14-15,2023.
How do we produce and disseminiate #knowledge of sand without reducing it to an object, mineral, or resource? The S.AND team has kicked off "Sand Bundles" to share our curiosity about #sand , other granular materials and coastal geology beyond academia. In exchange with artists, activists and curators, we wish to co-develop tools that bundle theoretical and creative perspectives for an Anthropocenic understanding of sand. Join us via the Ecological Design Collective. www.ecodesigncollective.org
#Meditation sharpens your #concentraiton and your thinking power. Then piece by piece, your own #subconscious motives and mechanics become clear to you. Your #intuition sharpens. The precision of your #thought increases, and gradually you come to a direct #knowledge of things as they reaally are, without #prejudice and without #illusion .
Do any #philosophy or #logic people know of a good formal treatment of Yablo’s views on ‘immanent’ knowledge closure from his "Aboutness”? The book does not seem to entirely spell out his intended semantics for knowledge ascriptions, but I would be curious to know if others have worked this out.