Central / South America

24 11, 2024

Lidar locates another lost city (Georgina Rannard, BBC)

By Humanities Watch|2024-11-24T14:30:19-05:00November 24th, 2024|April, Arts, Central / South America, education, environment, Everything Else, History, March, News, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

A review of lidar data reveals a hidden ancient city.

13 10, 2024

Columbus the wanderer (Sam Jones and Nadeem Badshah, The Guardian)

By Humanities Watch|2024-10-13T09:31:41-04:00October 13th, 2024|Academia, Central / South America, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, History, News, Politics, Religion, STEM|0 Comments

Researchers claim that DNA documents Columbus's Jewish ancestry.

9 07, 2024

Decoding the DNA of human sacrifice (Aylin Woodward, Wall Street Journal)

By Humanities Watch|2024-07-09T12:09:14-04:00July 9th, 2024|Academia, Central / South America, Everything Else, History, News, Religion, Technology|0 Comments

How genetic science helps us understand the rituals of human sacrifice among the Mayans.

8 08, 2023

Aztecs, Elizabethans, and the Looking Glass (S. Campbell, E. Healey, Y. Kuzman, M.D. Glascock, Antiquity)

By Humanities Watch|2023-08-08T15:06:45-04:00August 8th, 2023|Academia, Arts, Central / South America, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Museums, News, Politics, Religion, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Science broadens our understanding of global influences in the late Renaissance.

5 02, 2023

Mapping the Mayans (Aylin Woodward, Wall Street Journal)

By Humanities Watch|2023-02-05T10:03:49-05:00February 5th, 2023|Central / South America, environment, Everything Else, History, Nature, News, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Ongoing use of LiDar discloses the hidden dimensions of Mayan history.

16 11, 2022

Finding time and space for words, and words for time and space (Miriam Frankel and Matt Warren, BBC Future)

By Humanities Watch|2022-11-17T07:13:29-05:00November 16th, 2022|Central / South America, Debate / dialogue, education, environment, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Philosophy, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Studying how a language shapes perception of time and space.

16 10, 2022

Bulls and bears, in stock, stars, and poetry

By Humanities Watch|2022-10-17T08:01:08-04:00October 16th, 2022|business, Central / South America, Economics, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, Quotes|0 Comments

Bulls and bears during the South Sea Bubble of 1720.

12 08, 2022

The Healing Place of Trees in Art

By Humanities Watch|2023-05-28T11:02:14-04:00August 12th, 2022|Africa, Arts, Asia, Central / South America, environment, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, Medicine, Nature, Observations, painting, Philosophy, poetry, Religion|1 Comment

Finding health in the art of nature.

14 06, 2021

A world of falling humanities (Humanities Indicators)

By Humanities Watch|2021-06-14T17:42:37-04:00June 14th, 2021|Academia, Central / South America, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Europe, Everything Else, News, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

The small share of humanities degrees worldwide grows smaller.

1 06, 2021

Peru’s fertile past (Erica Gies, BBC Future)

By Humanities Watch|2021-06-01T19:50:22-04:00June 1st, 2021|Central / South America, environment, Everything Else, History, Language, Nature, News, Technology|0 Comments

How pre-Incan science provides answers to modern problems.