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Andrew Curry is an Australian producer and actor who has appeared in many television drama and comedy series, and in… more

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That's a pretty core!

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spoke32.bsky.social
I wrote about the recovery of the Bronze Age Peebles Hoard a few years ago, which from the outside at least seemed like a best-case scenario. Maybe because the guy who found it (and then spent two weeks sleeping next to it in the rain) was Polish? www.popsci.com/science/scot...
How Scotland forged a rare alliance between amateur treasure hunters and archaeologists
When amateur treasure hunters uncovered a Bronze Age bounty in Scotland, what they did next sets an example for conservationists everywhere.
www.popsci.com
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
And, in Germany's case at least, that's a few decades with a booming post-war economy and high government spending, neither of which are guaranteed for the U.S. in the decades to come.
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
The Trump administration has restricted drone and model aircraft flights over 935 square miles of Chicago, likely in an effort to prevent journalists from documenting ICE activity: www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Sweeping Ban on Drone Flights Across Chicago Looks Suspiciously Like an Attempt to Ban Press Coverage | ACLU
We can’t let government block drone photography of newsworthy events simply by claiming a need to fly their own aircraft in an area or claiming the existence of vague “security threats”
www.aclu.org
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
As a resident of a non-North American continent, I regret not being eligible to receive squid facts via text message.
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
Powerful @maxkozlov.bsky.social interview with Susan Monarez, who was fired from the CDC for standing up to Robert Kennedy's demands. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired
“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.
www.nature.com
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
Just got my absentee ballot for Prop. 50 here in Berlin (California likes to make it easy for all Californians to vote, so weird and small-d democratic). Will definitely be sending this one home ASAP.
Absentee ballot for California's Proposition 50.
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
I mean, it's a mosaic, so they're probably quite "puzzled" as well.
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spoke32.bsky.social
If you cut the top off a mountain, is it still the top of the mountain? Or is it just a rock with an interesting back story?
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 2d
If you want to see the top of the Mont Blanc, you have to come to the Netherlands, we have it in a museum here.
Horace Bénédict de Saussure cut it off in 1787 and his son sold it to the cloggies in 1802.
It's at the Teylers Museum, one of the most gorgeous museums ever.
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fakehistoryhunter.net
If you want to see the top of the Mont Blanc, you have to come to the Netherlands, we have it in a museum here.
Horace Bénédict de Saussure cut it off in 1787 and his son sold it to the cloggies in 1802.
It's at the Teylers Museum, one of the most gorgeous museums ever.
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
Now nearing Berlin, only 4 hours late!
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
Yeah, I know Germany and Denmark are different countries but a 40 minute flight is the definition of domestic – basically landing and takeoff plus a little bit in the middle to run through the aisle and hand out water. (And although it's much further, the Zurich-Berlin trip SHOULD take 8.5 hours.)
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
ourworldindata.org/travel-carbo...
Which form of transport has the smallest carbon footprint?
How can individuals reduce their emissions from transport?
ourworldindata.org
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
It is ... not a good station these days.
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
It's the end of a long weekend, so the trains are particularly packed. I'm sure per person it's still a fraction of the energy of a flight, no matter how long it takes. (Most of the energy use is forward motion, so a stopped train is pretty efficient...)
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
"Stuck outside of Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe with those Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe blues again..."

(An "unauthorized person" is on the tracks somewhere ahead. That seems like a good reason not to move forward, actually.)
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charlescmann.bsky.social
So at the university football game I sat next to a cheerful student from Japan who was telling me how much she liked the "colorful traditional costumes" and the "old folk music" and asking about the "dances," and I realized she was talking about the marching band and that she was, well, spot-on.
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Reposted by: Andrew Curry, Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch , and 17 more

andrewjweinstein.com
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
Update: 7 hours since the journey started, 3.5 of that is delay. At some point a conductor announced "Stuttgart has been cancelled." I asked if that meant our train wasn't stopping in Stuttgart or Stuttgart's train station was entirely out of order. He couldn't tell me. (Stuttgart exists, barely.)
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
I should have known the last day of a 3-day weekend was a bad time to board @deutschebahn.com. I've been on the train for 1 1/2 hours and we are already 50 minutes delayed.

At least I didn't bring my bike.
Delay notifications from Deutsche Bahn.
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
Don't forget the humble Wiener
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by Andrew Curry

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Oh, for sure -- ants would enthusiastically eat me with or without the yogurt.
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
But what happened to the poor ants?
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 4d
Would you eat the ant-yoghurt? 🧪🏺🐜
Anthropologists make 'ant yogurt' from centuries-old recipe, serve it as an 'ant-wich' at Michelin-star restaurant
Researchers have revealed how adding a handful of live ants to warm milk can create yogurt.
www.livescience.com
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Would you eat the ant-yoghurt? 🧪🏺🐜
Anthropologists make 'ant yogurt' from centuries-old recipe, serve it as an 'ant-wich' at Michelin-star restaurant
Researchers have revealed how adding a handful of live ants to warm milk can create yogurt.
www.livescience.com
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Reposted by: Andrew Curry, Richard Waite, Michael H. Whitworth , and 1 more

doctorwaffle.substack.com
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?
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by Andrew Curry

spoke32.bsky.social
I haven't read "Frau als Mensch" yet but probably – Schöningen is a pretty big deal, with amazingly well-preserved evidence. www.science.org/content/arti...
Rare wooden artifacts showcase the smarts of early Neanderthals
Complex tools from 300,000-year-old deposit at Schöningen in Germany point to a “wood age”
www.science.org
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spoke32.bsky.social
In a hunt more than 200,000 years ago, Neanderthals wielding wooden spears slaughtered horses on the shores of an ancient lake. Geneticists @unituebingen.bsky.social just sequenced DNA from the now-extinct equid species. It's the oldest yet recovered from an open-air site. @science.org
Ancient DNA from horses slaughtered by Neanderthals sheds light on equine evolution
200,000-year-old genes are oldest ever recovered from open-air site
www.science.org
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Reposted by: Andrew Curry

jensnotroff.com
Since it's hardly found as #pigment in nature, the colour #blue is believed to be a rather modern addition to our painting kits.

Until now: Turns out that apparently already #Paleolithic artists used blue pigment.

🏺 www.science.org/content/arti... by @spoke32.bsky.social via Science
Paleolithic painters had the blues
Two recent studies shine light on the earliest known artistic usages of blue pigment
www.science.org
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Reposted by: Andrew Curry, Peter Thorne, Flavio Lehner , and 6 more

benmsanderson.bsky.social
Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts
Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis
www.theguardian.com
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theopennotebook.bsky.social
Applications are OPEN through 10/31 for our early-career fellowship program supported by the @bwfund.bsky.social! Work with a mentor to plan, report, and write articles for The Open Notebook and become part of the TON team. 🧪
Early-Career Fellowship Program - The Open Notebook
Every year, The Open Notebook offers a paid, part-time fellowship program for early-career science journalists. This ten-month program offers fellows the opportunity to explore their career interests ...
www.theopennotebook.com
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