#quipu — Public Fediverse posts
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Cosmography alert 🚨
Peculiar velocities at low Galactic latitude
by Jeremy Mould and co-authors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19236
#Cosmology #Laniakea #galaxies #LaniakeaSupercluster #GreatAttractor #MeerKAT #WALLABY #radiotelescope #Quipu #QuipuSupercluster #Cosmicflows #Cosmography #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #science #news
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Landscape khipu: A theory that thousands of holes dug into a hill in Peru are a sort of storage and accounting system similar to the knot tying accounting technology
https://newatlas.com/environment/5-200-holes-peruvian-mountain/
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"Structures cosmiques : une famille de géantes"
I was yesterday on France Culture to talk about the discovery of the Quipu Supercluster and other large scale structures.
#Cosmology #Cosmography #Quipu #QuipuSupercluster #Laniakea #LaniakeaSupercluster #SouthPoleWall #SloanGreatWall #CosmicWeb #science #astrophysics #astronomy #astrodon #radio #podcast #FranceCulture #Radiofrance
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Human hair khipus reveal Inca record-keeping was used by both elites and commoners
A recently studied 500-year-old Inca khipu (Quipu) has overturned assumptions about who created these intricate thread-based documents. The study, published in Science Advances, suggests that khipus—formerly thought to be the domain of high-level imperial officials—were also made by non-elite members of society...More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/human-hair-khipus-used-by-elites-and-commoners/
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