Humanities weathering the storm? (Humanities Indicators)
Humanities departments appear to maintain stability in degrees and faculty in this latest survey.
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05, 2020
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04, 2017
Death has no answer
A dialogue about life extension and limits, beyond biology and scholarship.
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04, 2017
Caravaggio, Galileo, and the artful science of blood spurts (ResearchGate / Huffington Post)
How Galileo's theory of parabolic motion leads to a new attribution of a 17th-C. painting.
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03, 2017
Aristotle and the modern computer (Chris Dixon, The Atlantic)
Aristotle and the modern computer: how the Greek philosopher's logic influenced the mathematical equations that underlie digital computation.
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03, 2017
Ending the National Endowment for the Humanities (Sopan Deb, New York Times)
The current administration proposes to do away with the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as with the National Endowment for the Arts.
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03, 2017
Modern tragedy: the fears of physical annihilation and the role of the writer
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 [...]
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03, 2017
How the humanities heal: a doctor’s perspective (Audrey Shafer, Medscape)
A physician recalls not only her own past, but also the history of health care that involves the greater story about the human condition.
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03, 2017
The Question of the Humanities
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.
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03, 2017
Medicine finds its roots in the humanities (J. Kutac, R. Osipov, A. Childress, Journal of Medical Humanities)
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.
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03, 2017
On silence
On silence. Why poets, and others, look for quietude – with lovers, friends, or by themselves – in lieu of words Doodle: Good morning, Noodle. You appear deep in thought. Noodle: Thanks for the interruption. I’m puzzled by a poem. As a professor of the humanities, I’ve read a lot of poetry, and should be [...]