The Humanities App
How an app for the humanities would help us understand the greater wholeness in technology.
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12, 2019
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12, 2018
Humanities and wholeness
Reflections on Humanities Watch’s third anniversary
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05, 2018
The wanderings of scholars
How scholars diminish themselves by denigrating others unjustly.
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02, 2017
The lily and the river
The lily and the river: how much do we presume about our knowledge of the future, and how firmly rooted is our knowledge of our origins? Two fables from Renaissance scientists and polymaths: The lily set itself on the bank of the river Ticino, and the current swept away both the bank and the lily. Leonardo da [...]
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09, 2016
The costs of learning
The costs of learning: prudent parents have thought of better investments than financing the studies of their children I am thinking of something I heard in Bologna, where I was a student, from a certain honorable citizen, the father of a legal scholar, who told me more than once that there was nothing he regretted as much [...]
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10, 2015
Rabbits and hares
The rabbit said to the hare: "Hey there, you're always doing nothing and sleeping. Are you doing that in order to appear contemplative?" "And you," the hare said, "are you doing nothing by always working?" The rabbit replied, "As long as both of us, therefore, wish to appear to have little leisure, we follow our natures. It [...]