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Journalist covering science, culture, politics, business, and cycling. @newsfromscience, @archaeologymag, @natgeomag contributor. Also @[email protected]

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Joined August 2007
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RT @NewsfromScience: DNA results from Pompeii are forcing archaeologists to re-evaluate many of their long-held assumptions about the catac…
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Scholars used to think people killed at Pompeii died in the arms of close family. The story told by DNA recovered from some victims' bones by researchers @MPI_EVA_Leipzig, @pompeii_sites and elsewhere is, in some ways, even more compelling.
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RT @BrentToderian: Pulitzer Prize for camera work.
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RT @RickSteves: A century ago, Germany’s democracy was hijacked by a bombastic and charismatic tyrant — and in this five-minute video, you’…
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RT @Raniaab: “As he moved from corpse to corpse, the arms of strangers, some of them children, reached out to steady him. It was as he knel…
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Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social)
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"A candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches ... who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea-that won’t solve our problems."
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I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans.
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RT @janelledumalaon: “Are people too afraid to see that he is too weak and unstable?” Harris slams Trump for not wanting to debate her a se…
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Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social)
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RT @CarlosNYT: Not sending their best… Shithole countries… Go back… Poisoning the blood… I wrote about what I hear when I hear Trump’s att…
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Some misinformation in today's US presidential debate about who bears the cost of tariffs. So let's talk about how tariffs affect what you pay for a suit. 🧵
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RT @grescoe: I lived in #Paris in the 90s. A city totally dominated by cars. Hard to walk in, a nightmare to ride a bike in. Look at…
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RT @gasbagheera: Terry Pratchett was a genius.
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RT @bonesandbugs: This is eugenics. As President of the American Genetics Association and a human, I reject this. We are better than this.…
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Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social)
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RT @atrupar: 60 Minutes: The Trump campaign complained that we would fact-check the interview. We fact-check every story.
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Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social)
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RT @NewsfromScience: “It’s the oldest cheese DNA in the world.”
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RT @NewsfromScience: A pioneering paper promises a way to detect the chemical signature of smoking, among other behaviors and diets, in peo…
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Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social)
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Tobacco arrived in England in the 1500s, after the first colonies were established in the Americas. By 1700, merchants were bringing in 17+ million kilos of the stuff. A pioneering new study offers a way to spot smokers by chemical changes in their bones:
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Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social)
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RT @NewsfromScience: Bronze Age herders were buried with lumps of cheese starter, a study of ancient DNA shows.
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