NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
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"Over 100 newly restored bamboo slips are publicly displayed for the first time since their discovery...The main tomb of the Marquis of Haihun, the excavation of which was one of the most significant archaeological activities in the country in recent years..."
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Guangzhou, Hua Lin Temple (500 Genii Temple), by Milton M. Miller, ca. 1860-64.
Original source for the postcard below, issued by O. F. Ribeiros in 1902.
Chessmen at NMS National Museums Scotland - National Museums Scotland
195 years ago, on the 11th of April 1831, the Lewis chessmen were first exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland shortly after being rediscovered. The pieces wee made between 1150 and 1200 and commonly believed to have been made in Norway. #otd #history 🗃️
BDG News: Gen Z Predominates as a Record 250,000 Visitors Flock to 2026 Seoul International Buddhism Expo
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/4kkzeyk3
#Buddhism #Buddha #Seoul #Gangnam #Korea #HeartSutra #JogyeOrder #Meditation #ContemporaryBuddhism #Mindfulness #COEX #YoungPeople #KoreanBuddhism #Zen #Seon
Hong Kong International Airport has unveiled a giant interactive cat art installation at Terminal 1.
Belated #caturday
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Southern Shaolin Monastery in Putain, Fujian Province, 2019.
Southern Shaolin Monastery in Putain, Fujian Province, 2019.
Pleasure working with Tracy Stegman of San Diego Central Library to put this exhibit together. Special Collections on the top floor has an amazing view of the city! Exhibit up through June.
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Note how the original artist below used John Thomson's photograph from 1873 as reference to create the illustration of Gushan's temple in Fuzhou.
The concept of "AI slop" highlights the imbalance in effort between creators and consumers of content generated by artificial intelligence. As production becomes effortless, the burden shifts to the consumer. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
Photo of Whampoa Pagoda, Guangzhou, 1875.
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📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +
Found in the Densho Digital Repository
A photograph of a well-attended baseball game at the Manzanar incarceration camp in California. Camp barracks are seen beyond the outfield. Taken by Ansel Adams sometime in 1943. In honor of #MLB #OpeningDay, we celebrate the long and storied history of Japanese Americans in baseball.
🗃 #skystorians
From #AHAPerspectives in 2018: During the 1906 World Series, umpires used gestures to call the game for the first time. Rebecca Edwards explained how deaf @mlb.com player William Ellsworth “Dummy” Hoy brought umpires’ signs into the game. 🗃️
New webpage for the AI + Human Flourishing Initiative at the Contemplative Sciences Center, UVA.
The initiative investigates the bidirectional loop of how AI can enhance human flourishing, and how lived human knowledge can inform the human-AI interface.
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Map of the Tam Thai Monastery complex in the Marble Mountains near Da Nang. The monk in the hood was likely the monastery's abbot.
Map from Sallet's Les Montagnes de Marbre (1925), prepared by Vietnamese mapmaker, Do Khai.
Sunrise at Zhaoming Monastery in northern Fujian province. The temple overlooks a valley where the city of Fuding is located. 2018.
I've translated a short but very important passage by Satō Makoto about the concept of aura in documentary cinema. Part of my "mission" 😅 to disseminate as much as possible not only his films but also his writings...
Asita, the Awakened disciple with fashionable eyebrows. Mt. Emei, Sichuan. 2011.
Asita, the Awakened disciple with fashionable eyebrows. Mt. Emei, Sichuan. 2011.
View inside Shengshou Monastery in Wenzhou. 2014.
Buddhist monastic robes store, Zherong county, Fujian, 2018.
Specifically: 福建省弘福僧服有限公司
Buddhist monastic robes store, Zherong county, Fujian, 2018.
Visualizing Language Contact is a wonderful site by Dr. Michelle Li that combines Chinese language history with postcards! ~swoon~
Over fifty articles covering Chinese Pidgin English from chow chow to chin chin and more. Link to the article on "joss" 👇
visualizinglanguagecontact.com/joss/
New on History@Work: Lily Anne Welty Tamai and Michael Yee document how NCPH’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Working Group has grown the presence of AAPIs in #PublicHistory, a model other underrepresented groups could use to grow their presence in the field. Read at https://loom.ly/AbpvVAY
Bhikshuni Lineage Restored in Bhutan
265 Tibetan Buddhist nuns took ordination vows in Thimpu. The event marks a great victory in the struggle for gender equality in Buddhist monastic communities.
"After being rescued in 1894 and raised by Presbyterian missionary Donaldina Cameron at the Mission Home, Wu began working alongside Cameron in her teens, as a translator, aide and travel guardian for the young women in their care, and as a fundraiser."
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