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SCIENCE RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE (Oxford UP) available Jan 16! So grateful to fabulous co-authors Charlotte Sleigh & David Wilkinson who stepped up after the dreadful loss of Tom McLeish (plus new jobs for other authors): book would not be here without them! @eclasproject.bsky.social
Still going cheap. You can't afford NOT to buy at this price!
Iwan Rhys Morus
@irmorus.bsky.social
· Sep 16
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future
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I'm pleased to share the news that I have recently begun a term as co-editor of the British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS), working together with the now editor-in-chief, the brilliant Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social.
Still going cheap. Hurry - it can’t last!
Iwan Rhys Morus
@irmorus.bsky.social
· Sep 16
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future
Buy How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future by Rhys Morus, Iwan (ISBN: 9781785789281) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Ha! I think I wrote a couple of things for you. Forty years! Sheesh.
It's suddenly struck me. Were you features editor of Stop Press around 1984/85?
And if you happened to leave some nice reviews, I wouldn't mind at all!
Iwan Rhys Morus
@irmorus.bsky.social
· Sep 16
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future
Buy How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future by Rhys Morus, Iwan (ISBN: 9781785789281) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Oh, and there's a bridge in Brooklyn we'd like to sell you, too.
Nvidia and Microsoft bosses hail huge UK AI investment
Microsoft, Google and Nvidia have announced investments as part of a £31bn UK-US
www.bbc.co.uk
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UK readers: if you want to buy a hardback HTVTUTTM at a paperback price, Amazon currently have it at a whopping 68% off. Worth it for the amazing dust-jacket alone:
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future
Buy How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future by Rhys Morus, Iwan (ISBN: 9781785789281) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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I just missed out on the first printing - sold out by the time I ordered a copy. Still got mine on the 15th though, it seems!
Funnily enough, I can remember Don Pacifico from my History O Levels. Not diplomatic history's greatest episode I'd have thought ....
Oh, don’t get me wrong. Lots of us are likely to lose our jobs (I’m at a highly expendable age) but not because of AI. It will be because the HE model in both the UK and the US is fucked.
Fascinating Aberystwyth connection to this story:
The Welshman who broadcast Nazi propaganda to soldiers
After becoming a prisoner of war, he became a useful tool in the Nazi propaganda machine.
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Rage, horror, despair, anguish, and ghastly smiles, united their hideous expressions in the murderer's face, surpassing far the wildest representations of a Fuseli or a Kean.
That's Matthew Clydesdale's corpse being electrified by Andrew Ure in 1818!
That's Matthew Clydesdale's corpse being electrified by Andrew Ure in 1818!
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I recently had the enormous pleasure of telling @ceaubin.bsky.social why the genius Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean was my fave problematic douchebag from history.
Our podcast chat is a deep dive on a true fame monster — give it a listen here! @thisguysucked.com
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Our podcast chat is a deep dive on a true fame monster — give it a listen here! @thisguysucked.com
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Edmund Kean with Greg Jenner
Podcast Episode · This Guy Sucked · 04/09/2025 · 1h 41m
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'Nigel Farage has hit out at universities for “poisoning the minds” of students with what he said was a “twisted interpretation of history” in his speech on the opening day of the Reform UK conference.' 1/3
Universities ‘poisoning student minds’, says Farage
Populist leader takes aim at higher education in speech on first day of the Reform UK conference in Birmingham
www.timeshighereducation.com
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This is a massive fail. "We made errors here" does not begin to cover it. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/02/w...
Wired, Business Insider Editors Duped By Completely Bogus ‘AI’ Using ‘Journalist’ Who Made Up Towns, People That Don’t Exist
The rushed integration of half-cooked automation into the already broken U.S. journalism industry simply isn’t going very well. There have been just countless examples where affluent media owners r…
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Old but still relevant - possibly even more so now. I should update this.
The I at the Heart of the AI Storm
Speaking at the New Economy Summit in Singapore last November, Jeff Katzenberg, former chair of Disney and founder of Dreamworks Animation…
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Well I've voted calcite. I don't think David Brewster's ghost would forgive me if I didn't.
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I'm once again imploring everyone to vote for Iceland Spar, the Viking compass! A type of calcite used by the Vikings to navigate on cloudy days.
#TeamCalcite #MinCup25
#TeamCalcite #MinCup25
Particularly ironic given that it's documented this has happened to non-US citizens entering the US.