Marvels of Merlin revealed (Donna Ferguson, BBC News)
Researchers unveil a hidden medieval manuscript of Merlin and Arthur hidden in a Renaissance book.
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04, 2025
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03, 2025
Rolling humanities (Humanities Indicators)
Rolling humanities: new data show how students choose a humanities major during their college years, if not at the outset. From the study: In recent years, the Humanities Indicators staff has received numerous questions about whether college students who start a humanities degree are more or less likely to finish it than those who [...]
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02, 2025
Unscrolling the past with AI (Ian Sample, The Guardian)
New AI technology allows us to peer inside damaged writings from the past.
14
02, 2025
DeepSeek goes deep into humanities (Times of India)
How humanities foster AI creativity at DeepSeek.
8
02, 2025
Lost quiet (Sam Pyrah, The Guardian)
That living in silence is a lost, but needed, practice.
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01, 2025
Nourishing the humanities’ growth
An interview with Phoebe Stein of the State Humanities Councils on recognizing and supporting public humanities.
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01, 2025
AI and human extinction (Dan Milmo, The Guardian)
A founding scientist warns that AI development threatens humanity with extinction.
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01, 2025
On philanthropy, science, and dreams
Whitman's observations on what is meaningful in life, and worth supporting.
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12, 2024
Not easy reading (The Economist)
That the academic humanities engage in increasingly obscure jargon.
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12, 2024
Last words no longer lost (Dalya Alberge, The Guardian)
New technologies reveal etched writings for the first time.