Iwan Rhys Morus
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Professor of History. Historian of Science.
If there are Brazilians in my following, this is for you. The Emperor of Brazil does briefly feature!
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A história da primeira chamada telefônica: as palavras que mudaram o mundo
Alexander Graham Bell não foi a única pessoa que tentou inventar o telefone. Mas, há 150 anos, ele venceu - por pouco - a corrida, e o resto é história.
https://theconversation.com/a-historia-da-primeira-chamada-telefonica-as-palavras-que-mudaram-o-mundo-278168
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How the telephone helped form the Victorian future.
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The story of the first telephone call – nine words that changed the world
Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and the rest is history.
https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-the-first-telephone-call-nine-words-that-changed-the-world-277694
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And today is the day. It's the 150th anniversary of the first phone call. And this is me discussing how Victorians used the telephone to reimagine the future:
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The story of the first telephone call – nine words that changed the world
Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and the rest is history.
https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-the-first-telephone-call-nine-words-that-changed-the-world-277694
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New-Cleckit Dominie
6 days ago
Iwan Rhys Morus is, as you'd expect, informative and highly readable on the subject of Bell's demo and the wider story of invention:
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And today is the day. It's the 150th anniversary of the first phone call. And this is me discussing how Victorians used the telephone to reimagine the future:
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The story of the first telephone call – nine words that changed the world
Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and the rest is history.
https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-the-first-telephone-call-nine-words-that-changed-the-world-277694
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If you're listening to BBC Radio Wales in about ten minutes you'll catch me talking about the 150th anniversary of the first phone call. "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you!"
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Tomorrow's the day. A 150 years of talking on the telephone.
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The story of the first telephone call – nine words that changed the world
Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and the rest is history.
https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-the-first-telephone-call-nine-words-that-changed-the-world-277694
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Tomorrow's the day. A 150 years of talking on the telephone.
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The story of the first telephone call – nine words that changed the world
Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and the rest is history.
https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-the-first-telephone-call-nine-words-that-changed-the-world-277694
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And it really was good fun!
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Greg Jenner (Historian)
9 days ago
Today is the 150th anniversary of the patenting of the Telephone in 1876 — so, here is our very funny 150th episode of You’re Dead To Me about the telephone’s origins With comedian Catherine Bohart and historian of science Professor
@irmorus.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Here I am, talking to
@historyextra.bsky.social
about Thomas Edison and what his story tells us about technological future-making and its history.
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Thomas Edison: life of the week
Iwan Morus introduces the real Thomas Edison – an inventor whose success was fuelled by ambition and tireless self-promotion
https://www.historyextra.com/membership/thomas-edison-podcast-iwan-morus/
20 days ago
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Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!
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Greg Jenner (Historian)
16 days ago
Listen to our 150th episode at 10am on Radio 4, or the full length podcast on BBC SOUNDS
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You have about 10 minutes to settle down, put on BBC Radio 4, and listen to this. Enjoy!
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BBC Radio 4 - You're Dead to Me, History of the Telephone: 150th anniversary special
Join Greg and his guests to learn about the telephone on its 150th anniversary.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s35n
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I had huge amounts of fun recording this with
@gregjenner.bsky.social
and Catherine Bohart. So you should listen!
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You're Dead to Me - History of the Telephone: 150th anniversary special - BBC Sounds
Join Greg and his guests to learn about the telephone on its 150th anniversary.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s35n
17 days ago
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Greg Jenner (Historian)
17 days ago
AHOY-HOY!!! Thrilled (and quite smug) to say BBC You’re Dead To Me has reached 150 episodes! Even better — we managed to time our anniversary to land within a week of the 150th anniversary of the telephone being patented. So, guess what we did for this week’s episode… ☎️
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I had huge amounts of fun recording this with
@gregjenner.bsky.social
and Catherine Bohart. So you should listen!
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You're Dead to Me - History of the Telephone: 150th anniversary special - BBC Sounds
Join Greg and his guests to learn about the telephone on its 150th anniversary.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s35n
17 days ago
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Duncan Bell
18 days ago
Very pleased to find these in the post this morning. Now available as a physical object!
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You can read all about it here, as well:
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Here I am, talking to
@historyextra.bsky.social
about Thomas Edison and what his story tells us about technological future-making and its history.
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Thomas Edison: life of the week
Iwan Morus introduces the real Thomas Edison – an inventor whose success was fuelled by ambition and tireless self-promotion
https://www.historyextra.com/membership/thomas-edison-podcast-iwan-morus/
20 days ago
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Here's me talking to Ferren Gipson about Victorian futures for the amazing Object podcast:
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Imagined Futures: Early Sci-Fi and Electric Visions
Podcast Episode · Object · February 23 · 29m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/imagined-futures-early-sci-fi-and-electric-visions/id1854775243?i=1000750201730
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Here's me talking to Ferren Gipson about Victorian futures for the amazing Object podcast:
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Imagined Futures: Early Sci-Fi and Electric Visions
Podcast Episode · Object · February 23 · 29m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/imagined-futures-early-sci-fi-and-electric-visions/id1854775243?i=1000750201730
21 days ago
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Glyn Morgan
22 days ago
"as well as expressing our frustrations with the disenchanted world, it’s also our best means for capturing the ways in which the world remains enchanted"
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Kate Devlin
25 days ago
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Rebekah Higgitt
26 days ago
On science and religion, the myth of historic conflict, the problems of their collision and how we can better think about their relationship in the future
#histSTM
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Here's some listening pleasure (I hope!)for your diaries:
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BBC Radio 4 - You're Dead to Me, History of the Telephone: 150th anniversary special
Join Greg and his guests to learn about the telephone on its 150th anniversary.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s35n
about 1 month ago
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Perfect!
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about 1 month ago
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Duncan Bell
about 1 month ago
NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
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Utopia
Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c
https://academic.oup.com/book/62279
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Gerry Hassan
about 1 month ago
Bruce Springsteen is currently number one in iTunes in 19 countries.
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It’s arrived!
about 2 months ago
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It’s arrived!
about 2 months ago
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Are bankers starting to worry about bursting bubbles too?
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Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss
Jamie Dimon warns of civil unrest but Nvidia’s Jensen Huang argues tech will create rather than destroy jobs
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/21/rollout-ai-slowed-save-society-jp-morgan-jamie-dimon-jensen-huang
about 2 months ago
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Inanna Hamati-Ataya
about 2 months ago
My inaugural lecture, "Humanist Yearning as Political Epistemology” last October was an opportunity to share my vision for a new field of knowledge and celebrate the creation of the first ever chair in Global Political Anthropology |
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social
books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/...
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Humanist Yearning as Political Epistemology | University of Groningen Press
https://books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/book/257
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New and important:
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Science, Religion, and the Human Future: Conflict, Collusion, and Consequences
Abstract. Science, Religion, and the Human Future: Conflict, Collusion and Consequences demonstrates that the myth of an inevitable conflict between scienc
https://academic.oup.com/book/61786?login=false
about 2 months ago
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I’ve tried this quiz, and it genuinely is quite difficult to tell them apart.
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about 2 months ago
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Can’t wait to hear this one!
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about 2 months ago
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Wirioneddol edrych ymlaen at hwn!
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about 2 months ago
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Travelling home from London. Spent the afternoon having fun recording an episode of YDTM with the great
@gregjenner.bsky.social
. Wait to see - or rather wait to hear!
about 2 months ago
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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun
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New and important:
academic.oup.com/book/61786?l...
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Science, Religion, and the Human Future: Conflict, Collusion, and Consequences
Abstract. Science, Religion, and the Human Future: Conflict, Collusion and Consequences demonstrates that the myth of an inevitable conflict between scienc
https://academic.oup.com/book/61786?login=false
about 2 months ago
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I unrhywun fydd yn Aberystwyth ar 23 Ionawr/In case you're in Aberystwyth on 23 January
about 2 months ago
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Really looking forward to seeing how this goes!
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about 2 months ago
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Dr Miriam Elin Jones
2 months ago
Edrych ymlaen at groesawu
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i draddodi prif ddarlith Cynhadledd Chwilen yn y Glust ar 23 Ionawr 🪲✨ Mwy o wybodaeth a sut i gofrestru yma:
linktr.ee/chwilenynygl...
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I had a fascinating chat with
@themadstone.bsky.social
about Frankenstein a few weeks ago.
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Frankenstein's electrifying take on the nature of life
The creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was inspired by real scientific debates over whether electricity can create life.
https://www.importantnotimportant.com/p/frankenstein-s-electrifying-take-on-the-nature-of-life?gift_content=c6ada7d3-4442-4f8c-80f3-539d1f706cff
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I had a fascinating chat with
@themadstone.bsky.social
about Frankenstein a few weeks ago.
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Frankenstein's electrifying take on the nature of life
The creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was inspired by real scientific debates over whether electricity can create life.
https://www.importantnotimportant.com/p/frankenstein-s-electrifying-take-on-the-nature-of-life?gift_content=c6ada7d3-4442-4f8c-80f3-539d1f706cff
2 months ago
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I’m not quite sure what the kids have done…..
2 months ago
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gloknos
3 months ago
By our director Inanna Hamati-Ataya
@berytia.bsky.social
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Impromptu plumbing. Not in my plans for the fourth day of Christmas!
3 months ago
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Daffodils? In December?
3 months ago
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