Anxiously seeking solutions (Julie Wernau and Andrea Petersen, Wall Street Journal)
Increased anxiety meets a new industry designed to address it.
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09, 2023
1
07, 2023
Pizza at Pompeii? (Farrell Monaco, BBC Travel)
Finding flatbread in the buried city.
18
06, 2023
Delving deeper (Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future)
How technology is transforming our understanding of maritime history.
5
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 [...]
25
05, 2023
Cancer in medieval Britain (University of Cambridge)
New research with scans suggests a higher incidence of cancer in medieval Britain.
6
05, 2023
The plague of loneliness (Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States)
Whither / wither the humanities in our social isolation?
5
02, 2023
Mapping the Mayans (Aylin Woodward, Wall Street Journal)
Ongoing use of LiDar discloses the hidden dimensions of Mayan history.
14
01, 2023
Beyond humanism, beyond humanities (Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic)
Humanity, or its absence, beyond humanism.
16
11, 2022
Finding time and space for words, and words for time and space (Miriam Frankel and Matt Warren, BBC Future)
Studying how a language shapes perception of time and space.
25
10, 2022
Bubonic plague and genetic change (Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR)
How the second plague pandemic influenced the genome of its survivors.