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Andrew Curry

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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 @spoke32.bsky.social · 1d

Talk about being in the right place at the right time -- this @apnews.com photographer was the one to tell a Nobel prize winner she won: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

What’s it like to tell someone she won a Nobel Prize?

Science chats with photographer Lindsey Wasson, who captured how Nobel winner Mary Brunkow reacted to life-changing news

www.science.org

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 1d

"Though robotaxis have notched up impressive growth, they look ploddingly pedestrian compared with far zippier pedal-powered rivals. [Waymo] proudly proclaims that its cars do around 250k trips a week. Yet in NYC alone that number of trips is made every three days using the city’s bikeshare scheme."

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 2d

Just checking: If you're anti-anti-fascist, what does that make you?

Opposing Nazis & Hitler in Weimar-era Germany was a good thing, right?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 3d

This seems like the precise definition of "penny wise, pound foolish."

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 3d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 3d

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 3d

That's a pretty core!

Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 3d

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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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 4d

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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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 4d

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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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 4d

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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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, it's a mosaic, so they're probably quite "puzzled" as well.

Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 5d

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?

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 6d

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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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 6d

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 6d

Now nearing Berlin, only 4 hours late!

Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 6d

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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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 6d

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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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 6d

It is ... not a good station these days.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 6d

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...)

Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 6d

"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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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 6d

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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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 6d

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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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 6d

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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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 6d

Don't forget the humble Wiener

Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 8d

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