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Beyond Op-Eds: New Ways of Advocating the Humanities (W. Robert Connor, Inside Higher Ed)

By Humanities Watch|2016-05-03T19:20:41-04:00May 3rd, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, Employment, Everything Else, May, News, Philosophy|0 Comments

Beyond Op-Eds: New Ways of Advocating the Humanities: the former director of the National Humanities Center discusses ways to get teachers, and students, more involved in explaining how and why the humanities are important. From the article: "...what is most needed right now: not making the case but developing richer and more meaningful ways of [...]

A scientist reads the book of life, without annotations, but through imagery

A scientist reads the book of life, without annotations, but through imagery To read the book of life can be a great delight and an edifying experience; but only if one abstains from decorating every page with annotations in the margins and with corrections, and, even more importantly, from tearing them out and throwing [...]