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Cyrus Mody
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historian of sci/tech/energy/enviro @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social; http://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org; http://managingscarcity.com; The Squares https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543613/the-squares/. Call me Cyrus or Cy or "hey, mister" but not Cirrus or Moody.
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · Nov 1
the oil spillover - read all about it!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The oil spillover: prospecting for oil in innovation studies and the history of technology
Innovation studies scholars use the concept of ‘spillovers’ to explain how ideas and people move among firms and industries and how regions form industrial clusters. Historians of technology use di...
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 1d
Physics Today also published a half-decent article on the history of Josephson junctions & superconducting computing in 2016:

doi.org/10.1063/PT.3...
Between research and development: IBM and Josephson computing
For years the dream of turning the semiconductor industry into a superconductor industry has been only that. In the 1970s IBM—with help from the National Securi
doi.org
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 4d
theonion.com/architect-as...
Architect Asks Self How Le Corbusier Would Have Designed This Strip Mall
TOPEKA, KS– Architect Curtis Winter, designer of the planned Fox Plaza strip mall in downtown Topeka, found himself wondering Monday how influential 20th-century Swiss architect Le Corbusier would hav...
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 5d
not the point of this worthwhile article, but - is KLA Tencor's signage at Levi's Stadium really that much bigger than, well, Levi's? that field better be smooth and divot-free.

too few opportunities for surface profilometry jokes on this platform.

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Conservatives are going to hate Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show — and that’s a good thing
The world’s biggest annual sporting event will feature one of the world’s biggest musical acts. That’s how it should be.
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 5d
they're pretty snarky ab/ all the reasons that this document *has* to be a forgery, tho:
"Majestic 12 or 'MJ-12' Reference Report" section at link provided in the previous skeet.
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 5d
my fave Ike Library anecdote: they get lots of visits from people trying to prove Ike met w/ aliens. at some point, one such visitor secretly inserted a memo ab/ such a meeting into a box, which the archivists now can't remove b/c, well, archivists...

www.archives.gov/research/mil...
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 6d
new Trollope/Waugh character just dropped
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 6d
Zuckerman more lukewarm in reply. I think this must be the conference referred to in the Guardian obituary where he dismissed her findings as "anecdote"

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Zuckerman to Huxley: "I have never met Miss Goodall but I look forward to doing so on th emorning of April 12th when I believe I shall be in the Chair."
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 6d
Jane Goodall, whose impressive qualities were evident even to the not-easy-to-impress (here Julian Huxley) right from the very first:
1962 letter from Julian Huxley to Solly Zuckerman describing Jane Goodall as "this extraordinary young woman."
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 6d
this by Sangwoon Yoo doesn't really get at @dcbrock.bsky.social 's original question, but it's close enough that Sangwoon may have some insights:

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Technological Origins of Korean Semiconductor Industry - 한국과학사학회지 - 한국과학사학회 - KISS
This study reconstructs the origins of South Korea’s semiconductor industry through a technology-centered approach, challenging conventional narratives that emphasize government policies or corporate ...
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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 6d
How did #computers go from niche machines to everywhere, all at once? It turns out one of the oldest technologies, #books, was key.

Join our MUSTS colloquium by @patrickmccray.bsky.social on Wednesday 8 October in which we will explore how literature shaped the rise of computing.

shorturl.at/UJsqM
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 8d
is this warrior ethos? how about the personal grooming - up to standard?

normally with this genre of art my sympathies are with the kitty cat but just for today I'll root for the Amazon.
an Amazon holding a spear and riding a horse which is being attacked by a fearsome lion
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Aleksandra Komornicka @olakom.bsky.social · 8d
Happy to share my new article on Japan’s impact on the rise of East–West trade in Europe during the long 1970s:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Making Europe from the Outside: The Rise of Japan and European East–West Cooperation in the Long 1970s | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Making Europe from the Outside: The Rise of Japan and European East–West Cooperation in the Long 1970s
www.cambridge.org
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 9d
no pics, didn't happen
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 9d
I liked van Hoeydonck's cranes better, personally
drawings of cranes!
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 9d
ever run across this bit of space/art history @patrickmccray.bsky.social ?
museum exhibit intro about the life of Paul van Hoeydonck, artist who created the first sculpture on the moon van Hoeydonck and Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden (as old men) and an artwork by van Hoeydonck made of recycled cheese wrappers van Hoeydonck's sculpture Fallen Astronaut left on the moon by Apollo 15 prototypes and replicas of Fallen Astronaut
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 9d
there's also this claim (bottom of 👇) that the '73-'74 oil shock was the proximate cause of heightened restrictions on immigration to Belgium. is that supported in the literature? true of other Western European countries? maybe you know, @blenormand.bsky.social ?
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 9d
what's that you say - is there a connection to oil? why yes, yes there is! Red Star was founded by Philadelphia oil brokers who were shipping oil to Antwerp to sell on the European market & wanted to make money on the return leg as well.
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 9d
visited the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp on the weekend. the siteis where a couple million people departed for new lives in North America but the museum is ab/ both their story (e.g., Irving Berlin's) & migration/moving humans more generally. if you're in Antwerp, highly recommend.
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 10d
Tragic ending, tho
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 10d
New biopic project for Ryan Gosling
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 13d
don't try it in the Netherlands unless you're willing to experience relativistic effects
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 13d
for the next 12 months I'll be the product of two primes. but then after that I will - as I have for the past year - be far more accurately rendered as the product of a square and a prime.
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 13d
"ton" also means 100,000 of something (usually money) in Dutch - and now wikipedia informs me that it means 100 of something (anything?) in UK English! is that really true? imagine the arbitrage possibilities...
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 14d
I won't miss Gregg Wallace on Master Chef, but there was a certain car-crashy thrill to waiting for him to say things like "I'd like to stick my pork in your sauce" every episode.
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Ian S. Pumpkins @icpetrie.bsky.social · 14d
PHRASING!
Shot of duck legs in cooking liquid in a skillet with subtitle "[Brooke] He doesn't have time to pull all that meat right now."
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 15d
the jokes on all of us, of course - every time there's one of these predicted raptures, a few thousand penguin souls ascend to heaven & none of the left behind humans even notice