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welcome to the cotkey ride home for for Tuesday, March 8th, 2022.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

Giving all new meaning to taking a leaf out of their book, medieval literature scholars have adopted ecological models to quantify lost works of fiction. Plus, what if you could create diamonds out of thin air?

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from the news today. A new study has found that mathematical models used in ecology can be used to determine how much medieval literature was lost over time.

Quoting Scientific American, as ecologists survey a place's flora and fauna, they inevitably miss some individuals.

But thanks to statistical models, they can use the specimens

they do observe to estimate the diversity and size of unseen populations. And it turns out that the

same models can be applied to very different unknowns, end quote. In the case of medieval literature,

so fiction written in Europe between the 5th and 15th centuries,

we already know that a ton of it was lost, in fires, and repurposed for all kinds of other uses

like making boxes or wrapping up food. But knowing how much was lost can help scholars

understand more about the era, and also could give us some insight into the incredible challenge of preservation that we're facing right now.

Between the challenges of digital data and the climate emergency, keeping an archive of our cultural heritage is proving difficult.

You've got an enormous amount of data that's lost to things like

outdated file formats on the one hand, and then people fleeing extreme weather events without

their physical documents and heirlooms on the other. Study co-author Daniel Sawyer, a research

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