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1 06, 2026

Deciphering ancient stories (Sandrine Ceurstemont, BBC)

By Test Dummy|2026-06-01T16:45:16-04:00June 1st, 2026|Academia, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Medicine, News, science, Writing|0 Comments

Deciphering ancient stories: another role for AI. From the article: Known as the Borg cipher, the 408-page-long manuscript is mostly incomprehensible – coded using 34 obscure symbols with a few Roman letters and a front page written in Arabic. There was no known key to reveal what was encrypted. Some of the pages are also [...]

11 05, 2026

The state of play in higher-ed humanities (Humanities Indicators)

By Test Dummy|2026-05-11T10:30:08-04:00May 11th, 2026|Academia, education, Employment, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, News, Philosophy, STEM, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

The state of play in higher-ed humanities: the findings of a new survey by Humanities Indicators: Overall, the chairs in this sample expressed a high level of concern about the status of the humanities. Approximately half had a strongly pessimistic outlook about the future of their department.... Only six of the thirty chairs had an [...]