The Healing Place of Trees in Art
Finding health in the art of nature.
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08, 2022
7
04, 2021
History, health, and the business of philanthropy
A lecture on the ways history affects philanthropy's mission for global health.
2
08, 2020
Humanities and leadership (Austin Bukenya, Nation)
Thoughts on how humanities fostered the leadership of Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania.
17
02, 2020
Finding science in stories, stories in science (Beyond Conflict)
Creating stories that teach about the science of healing.
30
08, 2019
Bread of the Pharaohs (Alix Kroeger, BBC News)
Reviving 5000-year-old bread yeast to understand ancient Egypt.
27
08, 2019
Diving into history (Tara Roberts, National Geographic)
Divers find fragments of lost history, reconstructing the past in order to understand ourselves.
15
01, 2018
On science and ignorance, and re-viewing the history of “progress”
How science meets its limits in questions awaiting answers.
2
01, 2018
Science unveils new secrets of Egyptian mummies (Pallab Ghoush, BBC News)
New science reveals hidden secrets of ancient Egypt.
11
07, 2016
Identity and Difference: can we become part of another society without losing ourselves?
Identity and Difference: can we become part of another society without losing ourselves? A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which [...]
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06, 2016
Egyptian knowledge, health, and piety
Egyptian knowledge, health, and piety: Herodotus, the Greek "Father of History," remarks on Egyptian learning and character. The Egyptians who live in the cultivated parts of the country, by their practice of keeping records of the past, have made themselves the most learned any nation of which I have had experience. I will describe some of [...]