Started applying my new #LuaLaTeX package "lua-simple-wrap" to the small-format version of ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’.

Previously, various figures that were placed in the margin of the large format (using my package "marginalia" [https://ctan.org/pkg/marginalia]) were placed as normal figures in the small format, but they often looked awkwardly small (see 1st attached image). I have started using "lua-simple-wrap" to place many of them at the side of the page with the text wrapped around them (see 2nd attached image).

The advantage of "lua-simple-wrap" over other packages for wrapping text is that the code for each figure is placed at the same natural point in the paragraph as in the large-format version. This is important because the different versions are built from the same source by changing a global setting.

‘Form & Number’ (#OA as always): https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large (large format); https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_small (small format)

"lua-simple-wrap" Git repository: https://codeberg.org/ajcain/lua-simple-wrap (still in development, not yet available on CTAN)

#TeXLaTeX #typography

🇺🇸 The Role of Religion in the American Revolution

"This article sets out the ecclesiological, experiential, and theological differences among the largest Protestant denominations in Revolutionary America and the ways in which these differences contributed not just to the revolutionary spirit, but to the democratic and republican strands of revolutionary and constitutional thought in the new United States."

McConnell, M.W. (2026) ‘The Role of Religion in the American Revolution’, Journal of Law and Religion, pp. 1–12. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2025.10071.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Religion #Ecclesiology #Theology #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Academia

📖 Charismatic Nations: A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present

"This pioneering cultural history shows how artists and intellectuals since the days of Napoleon have celebrated and taken inspiration from an idealized nationality, and how this in turn has informed and influenced social and political nationalism."

🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/charismatic-nations/4F66A5EBCA83BA0EEFC6C3303BB027B2

#OpenAccess #OA #Academia #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #Culture #Politics #Nationalism #Europe

🖥️ On the Dangers of Large-Language Model Mediated Learning for Human Capital

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.70036

#OpenAccess #OA #LLM #Learning #Education #Academia

🖥️ Feedback of flattery: How AI may worsen narcissism in leadership training

"Sycophancy often manifests as AI-generated responses that flatter or compliment the user (Morrin et al., 2025). A recent New York Times (August 12, 2025) article suggested that sycophancy was a consequence of the fact that AI is trained on human feedback and, as users like being praised, they often react favorably to flattering feedback. In fact, recently researchers have found that users generally prefer sycophantic feedback, even when that feedback is incorrect (Sharma et al., 2025)."

Cox, C.B. and Tay, A.J. (2026) ‘Feedback of flattery: How AI may worsen narcissism in leadership training’, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 19(1), pp. 104–107. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2025.10054.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Psychology #Narcissism #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Academia

☀️ 🇧🇷 🗞️ Eclipse on paper: The 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazilian newspapers

"In this article, we offer an analysis of the 1919 eclipse coverage across Brazilian newspapers at national, state, regional, and local levels, published respectively at the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Belém do Pará, Camocim, and Sobral, to reveal how much locality shaped the contents and styles of news."

Carolino, L. M., & Simões, A. (2026). Eclipse on paper: The 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazilian newspapers. History of Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00732753261419603

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Brazil #Newspaper #Academia

🇬🇧 Race, Blood, and Soil: Viscount Lymington and Britain’s Homegrown Agrarian Fascism

"Lymington’s vision of national rebirth was agrarian in form but racial in substance; he imagined an England made strong and whole again by returning to its “native” soil, purging foreign and urban corruptions, and reasserting the dominance of its Anglo-Saxon stock."

Aspinall, K. (2026) ‘Race, Blood, and Soil: Viscount Lymington and Britain’s Homegrown Agrarian Fascism’, Journal of British Studies, 65, p. e33. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2026.10205.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Politics #UKPol #Academia

🖥️ 🧠 ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention

"The findings align with cognitive offloading theory and the ‘desirable difficulties’ principle: while AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning. "

Barcaui, A. (2025) 'ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention,' Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 12, p. 102287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102287.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Chatbots #ChatGPT #Cognition #Education #Learning #Academia

How latent and prompting biases in AI-generated historical narratives influence opinions

"These findings demonstrate that the use of AI for learning history can influence opinions through both intrinsic and intentional framing mechanisms, even when the content remains factually accurate."

Matthew Shu, Daniel Karell, Keitaro Okura, Thomas R Davidson, How latent and prompting biases in AI-generated historical narratives influence opinions, PNAS Nexus, Volume 5, Issue 3, March 2026, pgag022. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag022.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #LLM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #History #Histodons #Academia