The Worry-Fencer: the roots and restlessness of our present time.
Tracing the source of our restlessness, in dialogue.
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06, 2017
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05, 2017
Culture compared to civilization
Culture as a feature of progress; civilization as its form.
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05, 2017
Listening in health care: a humanities task (Philippa Göranson, Global Listening Centre)
Restoring the art of listening in the health care setting.
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05, 2017
The perils of thinking with the humanities (Francine Prose, The Guardian)
How thinking with complexity adds to our cultural (and political) understanding.
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05, 2017
The fuzzies vs. the techies (Amy Shen, Stanford Review)
The humanities ("fuzzies") and tech fields ("techies") remain divided, as two cultures.
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05, 2017
The Decline of the West (again) (Rachel Nuwer, BBC Future)
Computing science and math, along with historical knowledge, offer new assessments on the health of the current society.
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05, 2017
Fables for the Present Time
Stories of science and learning in our time.
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04, 2017
Elon Musk and Sam Altman Speak on the Future of Information
Elon Musk and Sam Altman speak about the future of technology and its uses in accessing and using information.
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04, 2017
On science and ethics: conveying and exploding knowledge
Can you write a book on ethics, using words of science, that would explode all other books?
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04, 2017
Sense, emotion, and scientific discovery (Lewis Lapham, Lapham’s Quarterly)
How experience fosters discovery of all kinds, as well as a deeper reading of history and literature