Syncopated synapses (Jon Hamilton, NPR)
How the arts help us think and create.
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07, 2023
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07, 2023
Pizza at Pompeii? (Farrell Monaco, BBC Travel)
Finding flatbread in the buried city.
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06, 2023
Roman legacy (Heritage Daily – Archaeology News)
Roman legacy: the seaside science of ancient concrete. From the article: Around A.D. 79, Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote in his Naturalis historia that concrete structures in harbors, exposed to the constant assault of the saltwater wave, become "a single stone mass, impregnable to the waves and every day stronger." He wasn’t exaggerating. While [...]
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04, 2023
Writing for health
That writing fosters our health in inverse proportion to our use of chatbots.
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03, 2023
Human intelligence and AI (Yuval Harari, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, New York Times)
How heedlessly promoting AI threatens human language and culture.
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03, 2023
Moving beyond the two cultures
Reflecting on how the two cultures lead to a Dantean limit governed by Love.
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03, 2023
Does the Madonna need AI? (Kelly Crow, Wall Street Journal)
Using AI technology to determine the artist of a Renaissance painting.
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02, 2023
The weight of observation (William J. Broad, The New York Times)
New readings of Leonardo's works reveal his gravitational experiments.
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01, 2023
On humanity in the sciences
A leading biochemist speaks of science's need to return to humility and the humanities.
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01, 2023
Techniques and technology (Christopher Rim, Forbes)
Liberating education from its focus on usefulness.