A nice exploration of #cybernetics and its history features in the latest episode of In Our Time. Many won't learn anything new but it remains an interesting whistle stop tour of the principal concepts of #systems (feedback loops, control, etc), the key personalities (Weiner, Beer, etc), and its eventual fusion with ecological system theory. Worth a listen!
In Our Time -- BBC Radio 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vmk4 #BBC #InOurTime
Well, here's an #InOurTime episode which I *think* is not actually an April Fool but real knowledge carefully presented to make it *sound* like an April Fool. But I'm honestly not sure.
Listen to it before checking other sources and see what you think. Whatever, the people who made it had a lot of fun doing so.
In Our Time: Archaea
Starting from: 00:31:10
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sg10
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I don't mind a Misha as the new Melvin at all. This is good stuff.
[In Our Time] On Liberty #inOurTime
https://podcastaddict.com/in-our-time/episode/216969316 via @podcastaddict
Listen to In Our Time - On Liberty by BBC Radio 4 on Podcast Addict. Journalist, author and historian Misha Glenny presents his first edition of In Our Time, succeeding Melvyn Bragg who retired from this role last summer. Misha and his guests discuss the landmark work On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, published in 1859 and the increasing recognition for his wife Harriet Taylor Mill's contribution. The subject matter of the essay is ‘civil or social
It really feels like the end of an era: Melvyn Bragg is leaving his role as host of "In Our Time". 🙁
Melvyn Bragg has left some really big shoes for Misha Glenny to fill 😬:
“Misha Glenny To present BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time” [2025], BBC (https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/misha-glenny-in-our-time-bbc-radio-4).
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