I believe I may be ahead of the curve.

Given that all eyes are on Ukraine, it is only appropriate that this joint work on the costs of war between the US and China, with Anand Toprani & Nick Murray, appear today: The Results of War Are Never Final? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Mahmud Farooque Matt Hourihan IBM Research Take a look at Cyrus Mody Steve usselman & James Cortana to start

Congratulations to Kim Pelis on becoming the new director of NIH History Office! Good luck! Harry would be very proud!

Have we reached Peak Tooze?

Not sure if they are related, but I look forward to reading both of these which came yesterday ⁦Shawn Levy⁩ ⁦Beth Popp Berman (epopppp@bsky)⁩

My father, Lewis H. Dennis, would have been 87 today. Words still fail me when I try to express how much I continue to miss him.

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Is this as depressing as it seems? nature.com/articles/d4158…

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…. If true, does this mean that the PRC can afford to attack Taiwan since it no longer needs TSMC?

Sad to hear that Nichelle Nichols died. I will always remember when she told Spock: "It's not the sun in the sky, but the Son of God," as one of the best delivered lines in Star Trek TOS. RIP gizmodo.com/nichelle-nicho…

If you work on maritime history there is a job at the US Merchant Marine Academy: usajobs.gov/job/674661200

Congratulations to Pamela H. Smith for a wonderful review of her latest great work in The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2022/…

Interested in digital technology and sustainability? Here is a post doc--academictransfer.com/en/316330/post…

Riki Kuklick introduced me to Latour when she published Drawing Things Together. Latour's seminar at UCSD was a sheer delight for this post-doc; his engagement with the materials and students set a very high bar. Bruno, RIP; you will be missed.

Now this is my favorite story of the day gizmodo.com/injured-africa…

Our mother died on 30 November; I am still stunned by the speed with which it all took place. Understanding that I will never see and speak with her again, let alone hug her, is wrenching. legacy.com/us/obituaries/…

I look forward to reading this new piece by Aaron Bateman tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Is the #StarTrek #TNG episode Justice S1E8 a modern retelling of a variant of the Melian Dialogue?

My father would have been 89 today; it has been nearly 8 years since his death. I still miss him and continue our daily conversations. Solace comes from believing that he and mom plus their beloved Boston Terriers are together forever traversing the universe.