March Archives

8 02, 2025

Lost quiet (Sam Pyrah, The Guardian)

By Humanities Watch|2025-02-08T17:34:51-05:00February 8th, 2025|Academia, Arts, education, environment, Europe, Everything Else, History, March, Medicine, Nature, News, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

That living in silence is a lost, but needed, practice.

20 01, 2025

Nourishing the humanities’ growth

By Humanities Watch|2025-01-25T16:32:15-05:00January 20th, 2025|Academia, Arts, Debate / dialogue, education, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, March, Politics, Quotes, science, STEM|0 Comments

An interview with Phoebe Stein of the State Humanities Councils on recognizing and supporting public humanities.

11 01, 2025

AI and human extinction (Dan Milmo, The Guardian)

By Humanities Watch|2025-01-12T09:49:15-05:00January 11th, 2025|Academia, April, Debate / dialogue, education, Everything Else, History, March, mathematics, News, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

A founding scientist warns that AI development threatens humanity with extinction.

4 01, 2025

On philanthropy, science, and dreams

By Humanities Watch|2025-01-05T10:00:43-05:00January 4th, 2025|Arts, Everything Else, Law, March, Philosophy, poetry, Quotes, Religion, science, STEM|0 Comments

Whitman's observations on what is meaningful in life, and worth supporting.

24 11, 2024

Lidar locates another lost city (Georgina Rannard, BBC)

By Humanities Watch|2024-11-24T14:30:19-05:00November 24th, 2024|April, Arts, Central / South America, education, environment, Everything Else, History, March, News, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

A review of lidar data reveals a hidden ancient city.

13 04, 2018

History and the Natural Sciences

By Humanities Watch|2018-04-12T18:34:11-04:00April 13th, 2018|2016, History, March, Quotes, science|0 Comments

Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) assesses, for his students in Basel, the relation between history and the natural sciences, “the only disinterested comrades we have.” […]

26 03, 2017

Saving the humanities through history (Rens Bod, Chronicle of Higher Education)

By Humanities Watch|2017-04-20T17:04:57-04:00March 26th, 2017|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, History, Literature, March, News, Philosophy, Politics, science|0 Comments

How understanding the humanities' past illuminates their present and future importance, as they have discovered new findings critical to understanding our world.

16 03, 2017

Modern tragedy: the fears of physical annihilation and the role of the writer

By Humanities Watch|2017-03-16T06:29:26-04:00March 16th, 2017|2017, Arts, Europe, March, March, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

Modern tragedy: the fears of physical annihilation and the role of the writer Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: When will I be blown up? Because of [...]

11 03, 2017

The Question of the Humanities

By Humanities Watch|2017-03-23T06:17:32-04:00March 11th, 2017|2017, Academia, business, Debate / dialogue, education, History, Literature, March, Philosophy, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada, Videos|0 Comments

The Question of the Humanities: the editor of Humanities Watch weighs questions the humanities ask, and are asked, concerning their relation to the sciences, technology, and business interests. Text of the remarks can be found here.

8 03, 2017

Medicine finds its roots in the humanities (J. Kutac, R. Osipov, A. Childress, Journal of Medical Humanities)

By Humanities Watch|2017-04-20T17:23:31-04:00March 8th, 2017|2017, Everything Else, History, March, Medicine, News, Philosophy, science, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

How the current shape of healthcare can learn much from investigating Renaissance perspectives on the human condition, and the manner in which humanists describe this condition.