Advanced Robotics find Renaissance shipwreck (Sten Hankewitz, Estonian World)
How a robotics team located a Renaissance ship in nearly perfect condition.
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08, 2019
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08, 2019
AI and the liberal-arts classroom (Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review)
Attempting to use AI to enhance creativity, writing, and language learning.
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08, 2019
“Engineering before engineers” (Alex Abrams, Wake Forest University)
Appreciating the historical roots of engineering in Renaissance ingenuity.
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08, 2019
Language, environment, and healing (Maria Giulia Marini, MedicinaNarrativa.eu)
Using philosophy to understand the ways that language and environment enhance healing.
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07, 2019
A.G.I. meets the brain (Cade Metz, New York Times)
Training AI to re-create human intelligence.
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07, 2019
Finding the soul in the play of words
How the spontaneity of the soul is often dulled by practical and political concerns.
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07, 2019
The decline of reading (Humanities Indicators)
The time spent reading for pleasure declines across all groups.
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07, 2019
Girls choosing humanities (Thomas Breda and Clotilde Napp, PNAS)
How higher reading skills may lead girls to choose humanities study, despite their excellence in math.
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07, 2019
This is your brain on the internet (Firth et al., World Psychiatry)
Going online can bring the mind offline.
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07, 2019
Humanities, self-knowledge, and our digital times
Discussing the need to re-discover the historical force of the humanities in our scattered lives.