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Journalist covering archaeology, science, culture, politics, business, and cycling. When not on my bike, I'm found most often in Science, National Geographic & Archaeology. WahlBerliner, on Signal at andrewcurry.01 More at andrewcurry.com .. more

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Andrew Curry is an Australian producer and actor who has appeared in many television drama and comedy series, and in feature films.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 7d
Just some Assyrian criminal masterminds, smuggling tin in their underwear
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Smuggling goods through Syrian/Iraqi border is still the way of making a living for many families in SE Anatolia.🙃
In "Between Two Rivers" by
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Some merchant in Assyrian trade colonies era (first half of 2nd millenium BC I suppose) plans to being goods via an alternative and risky route to avoid taxes

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 7d
Smuggling goods through Syrian/Iraqi border is still the way of making a living for many families in SE Anatolia.🙃
In "Between Two Rivers" by
@moudhy.bsky.social
Some merchant in Assyrian trade colonies era (first half of 2nd millenium BC I suppose) plans to being goods via an alternative and risky route to avoid taxes

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 8d
Wait, what?

"As valuations rise, some analysts have expressed scepticism about a complicated web of $1.4tn of deals being done around OpenAI, which is expected to have revenues this year of less than one thousandth of the planned investment."

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 8d
This is like knowing COVID was here and waiting for the stock market to convince everyone that it could kill us all.
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an "extraordinary moment", but there was some "irrationality" in it.
www.bbc.com

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 8d
Interesting wrinkle on the repatriation debate. A Sikh holy book was taken by British colonizers in the 1800s; there's a huge and devout Sikh community in Scotland today. "People are here because of that colonial past and have lived their whole lives here ... it should be here for our communities."
jenniferfindlay.bsky.social Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 9d
A lovely story of an archivist reaching out for religious community support to fully understand a holy book in the collection, and that community getting a wonderful experience in return.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sikhs flock to see rare outing of ancient holy book in Edinburgh
The Guru Granth Sahib is so fragile it was taken to Edinburgh Gurdwara in a special convoy by curators for just a few hours.
www.bbc.co.uk

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David Grimm @david-grimm.bsky.social · 9d
A female wolf has been doing something unusual on the Central Coast of British Columbia. She's learned to pull crab traps up from the water, yanking on a rope to bring it to the surface. But is it tool use? Very fun story from @phiejacobs.bsky.social for @science.org
Have wild wolves learned to use tools?
Video captures a lone female pulling crab traps out of the water, but does it count as tool use?
www.science.org

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 9d
Just had to dip into this @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social joint from 2015 for some last-minute fact-checking – some exciting stuff coming later this week.
Cover of "Krieg: Eine Archaeologische Spurensuche" museum exhibit catalogue

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 9d
A lovely story of an archivist reaching out for religious community support to fully understand a holy book in the collection, and that community getting a wonderful experience in return.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sikhs flock to see rare outing of ancient holy book in Edinburgh
The Guru Granth Sahib is so fragile it was taken to Edinburgh Gurdwara in a special convoy by curators for just a few hours.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 9d
Comedian Mo Amer has an amazing story about his mother fleeing Kuwait and hiding their money from Iraqi soldiers. Don't be the Iraqi soldiers. www.tiktok.com/@moamer/vide...
My mother is a gangster
TikTok video by Mo Amer
www.tiktok.com

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 9d
Mmmm, cookie dough...

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 9d
As a journalist I find preprints tough. Often it's interesting stuff & there's pressure from editors to cover. But authors won't/can't comment, and colleagues are reluctant to say anything about something that might change before publication. So they just sit there, sometimes for years, tempting me.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 10d
Weird not to see Kathleen Coleman's "Missio at Halicarnassus" mentioned here: www.jstor.org/stable/3185234

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 10d
15 years ago (!!!) I covered a PR event for German hydrogen cars. Everyone was using fuel cells EXCEPT BMW, which was promoting a car fueled by liquid hydrogen that you could only obtain at one station in Berlin. That station was bulldozed a few months ago, but BMW is still playing their games...
Berlin Rallies for a Tricky Oil Alternative
A coalition of energy and auto companies push for a hydrogen fuel transportation network in Germany, but it’s a tough idea to move down the road.
www.nationalgeographic.com

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 10d
Skeumorphism!

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 10d
Even I, a desperately uncool dad, can immediately tell this ad is cringe.

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Andrew Curry, Erol Akçay

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11d
It says it all
Advertising poster promoting cycling for transport featuring four people in a row on bikes. At the top the text says, "You'd be better on a bicycle", and then in a bubble it says "Still [emphasized with big, red, italicized letters] the cheapest, handiest, healthiest way of getting about."

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Todd Gill - Retro Frog @retrofrog.bsky.social · 12d
Oh my
Japanese people being silly.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 12d
I mean, it has the tusks and ears and tail, right? All the parts are there.

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eviebeevie @eviebeevie.bsky.social · 12d
what a fun project!

some of these are quite good. some are comically terrible! like this one (boo for no preview): www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

page doesn't fully load for me, but you can still click on where the image would be. be sure to check out the spotted leopard one at the bottom

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 12d
The online version they make you use now is even worse, I didn't realize that was possible but it definitely is

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 12d
This @uliwestphal.bsky.social illustration of earnest efforts to draw elephants by medieval artists who clearly had never seen an elephant is great. ""So, it has two horns coming out of the face, and big ears, and also a tail... I know, I know, but my cousin said he knows a guy who saw one once..."
Uli Westphal
Visual Arts
www.uliwestphal.de

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 13d
That's an amazing Baba Yaga hut!

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 13d
I mean, touchpads also work, but when you have different burners going and stuff is spattering and the touchpad is wet and you need to lower the temperature really fast (because induction is SO RESPONSIVE!!!) it's nice to just twist a knob.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 13d
Whatever you get, I found knobs make a tremendous difference over the touch-pad (dys)functionality of most induction stoves. (We got a Miele mostly for this reason last year.)

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 13d
I ride by these tiny little ponies out near Potsdam every few months and they are ALWAYS eating, no matter what time of day or year I happen to pass by. No wonder they are almost as wide as they are tall.
Four Shetland ponies eating hay

Reposted by Simon J. Greenhill

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 15d
Konstanz, Túbingen and Heidelberg are all lovely places to live.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15d
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15d
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 15d
In 2019, I worked with @robertclarkphoto.bsky.social to interview survivors of WWII for National Geographic. I met a man who flew in the invasion of Poland, one of the few German survivors of Stalingrad, & a woman who survived the war as a child. Some of the most memorable interviews I've ever done.
Nearly 80 years after World War II, their voices recall the struggle
Some were heroes. Some were victims. Others fought for the fascists who sought to dominate the planet. Today their stories are as poignant as ever.
www.nationalgeographic.com

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 15d
Black Friday, coming soon.
Poster on sidewalk stand in Berlin reads "You want it, you need it, you buy it, you forget it."

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 15d
Memories of plunging my hand deep into the very cold peat to uncover Iron Age wooden planks last seen over 2,000 years ago.

In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.