ICalzadaGrateful to share that my article “#DigitalInfrastructures of #Democracy” has been accepted for @UniversityOfOxford #OUP #STS
@ssrn #Abstract #OpenAccess
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6157886
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How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
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".. O-rings .. these rings were never intended to be used to cover expanding gaps, .. "
".. felt frustrated by the slow pace + “time-consuming” public meetings + briefings “of so little use.” He did his own research .. even created his own report .. released publicly. .."
https://nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-found-the-root-of-the-challenger-disaster-1264270/
28.1.2026
#Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #NASA #ORing #Raumfahrt #RichardFeynman #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L
Ars Technica NewsI bought "Remove Before Flight" tags on eBay in 2010—it turns out they're from Challenger https://arstechni.ca/tCSb #MichoudAssemblyFacility #RemoveBeforeFlight #Spaceexploration #spacememorabilia #40thanniversary #LockheedMartin #spaceartifacts #externaltank #spacehistory #Spaceshuttle #Challenger #disaster #40years #STS-51L #tragedy #Space #ET-26 #eBay #NASA #Tag
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Challenger: The disaster five people saw coming
Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off, killing its crew and changing the history of spaceflight. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy — but they were overruled.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-01-28/space-shuttle-challenger-disaster-nasa-explosion-video-engineers/106162902
27.1.2026
#arrogance #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #disaster #management #NASA #negligence #ORing #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L #Thiokol
Chris KingGot a cheap physical copy of Osiris, Volume 28 – Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750–1980 as it's all bangers and I have wanted one for a while #organology #mediaarchaelogy #sts
ISiS RadboudUpcoming: RROSA symposium #4 with a double lecture by @jabyrnesci.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy & @willemhalffman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Monday, 2 March 2026, 10.30-12.00
Radboud University
Room HG00.616 (Huygens building, ground floor, wing 6)
No registration needed.
halffman.org/rrosa-symp4/
#STS #philsci #metascience
RROSA Symposia no. 4: guest le...
RROSA Symposia no. 4: guest le...
Jeffrey YostThrilled to announce an online lecture by Indiana U. Prof. & CBI Research Fellow Rachel Plotnick "Computers are a Mess: What Hygiene Can Bring to the History of Computing." Wed., Feb. 11, '26, 1 pm Central.
#technology #science #history #STS #mediastudies #communication #informationscience
Via Zoom
Register:
https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/JJKMQZsBRu600TVICxQHBg#/registration
Jan Dstill collecting decaying (or not decaying) covid infrastructure. Reply with your finds to:
Ingold, T. (2021) “In the gathering shadows of material things,”
discussed and summarized here: https://www.livinganthropologically.com/imagining-for-real/concrete-is-concrescence/
with a particular focus on the problem of the translation of the french "agencement" (/a.ʒɑ̃s.mɑ̃/) to the english "assemblage" (/əˈsɛmblɪd͡ʒ/)
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