Evolutionary psychologist Robin... ...ame) and colleagues analyzed 2 billion anonymized telephone calls and 500,000 text messages to arri...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/19/human-societies-are-moving-from-a-patriarchy-back-to-a-matriarchy/
On March 21, 1920, the Sandusky Register reported on an astonishing invention in which W. W. Macfarlane, traveling in a car (driven by a chauffeur), held a conversation with his wife back at the garage -500 yards dow...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/26/the-worlds-first-carphone/
~Illustrated by:Â Joanna Ong~ Came home to find an AT&T phonebook on my doorstep. Along with a boom box and an Apple Macintosh Classic. -Â @jamiedenbo...
http://www.neatorama.com/twaggies/2011/08/30/no-456-jamiedenbo/
On the one hand, it's just a number. On the other hand, there is a history and a system behind phone numbers that you might not know about. Like, why did they start using numbers in the first place? In the early days of...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/12/10-fascinating-facts-about-phone-numbers/
I recently read an NPR piece about the book Annoyi... ...unication. I consider that a conversation by telephone —when you are simply sitting by and not taking a...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/07/mark-twain-listens-to-a-woman-on-the-phone/Before Robin Williams got his breakout role as Mork from Ork, he starred in this wonderful ad for Illinois Bell. Take a look: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Laughing Squid...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/28/robin-williams-in-1977-phone-ad/
We all have cell phones (oops, sorry, "smart&... ...rn day communications is now shying away from the telephone : It’s at the point where when the phone doe... ..., full-fledged adults have seemingly given up the telephone — land line, mobile, voice mail and all. Ac...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/19/who-uses-the-phone-anymore/
For this Friday’s Museum of Possibilities, I r... ...d a half-hour conducting a phone interview with a telephone crammed between their upraised shoulder and neck.... ...l panel, showing ladies using a PDA-type wireless telephone , was a reasonably correct prediction of devices t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/24/my-awkward-attempts-to-design-a-hands-free-phone/
Minnesotastan found a delightfully thorough post a... ...ever-longer strings of numbers as the newfangled " telephones " became popular. The amount of letters at the st...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/18/understanding-alphanumeric-phone-numbers/
...or to gobbledegook, depending on what your phone number is. The website "PhoneSpell" will convert strings of 3-16 numbers to their phone-dial-equivalent letter combinations. The sequence 632867262, for example, c...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/convert-your-phone-number-to-words/
