Humanities at the crossroads (Ross Douthat, New York Times)
Why students of the humanities face tough choices.
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01, 2020
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01, 2020
Humanities reimagined (Susan Kirby-Smith, UNCG NOW)
How the reimagined humanities lift our prospects.
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01, 2020
Humanities on the edge (Simon During, Chronicle of Higher Education)
How the humanities have lost their centrality.
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01, 2020
STEM is in the air (Virginia Heffernan, Wired)
STEM has the air of insubstantiality.
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12, 2019
The Humanities App
How an app for the humanities would help us understand the greater wholeness in technology.
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12, 2019
The firsts in Leonardo’s Last Supper
The firsts in the ways Leonardo's Last Supper integrates optics, mathematics, art, psychology, and faith.
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12, 2019
The higher good that leads us upward
We do not define the higher good; it defines us.
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12, 2019
The alienated have landed (Joseph Bernstein, BuzzFeed News)
Cyberspace culture has increased the ranks of the alienated.
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12, 2019
Brain scans spotlight the cast of history (Pierre Gagnepain et al., Nature Human Behavior)
Using neural imaging, the study suggests how collective memory filters our sense of history.
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12, 2019
Art and memory (Ken Smith, WRAL.com)
Viewing art summons the memory of things past.