The Renaissance is closed
How the coronavirus shows that the Renaissance is closed, and how we may recover it.
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03, 2020
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03, 2020
First in flight
The flight of poetry matches that of science.
13
02, 2020
Don’t call me (Markowitz, Hancock, Bailenson, and Reeves: PLoS One)
Being alone with a silent phone may help mental focus.
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02, 2020
Writing the world’s end (Peter Cunningham, YaleNews)
How apocalyptic literature treats the world's end through climate change.
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01, 2020
The path toward phenomenal healthcare
A conversation about humanities and healthcare, with patients at the center.
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12, 2019
The alienated have landed (Joseph Bernstein, BuzzFeed News)
Cyberspace culture has increased the ranks of the alienated.
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12, 2019
Brain scans spotlight the cast of history (Pierre Gagnepain et al., Nature Human Behavior)
Using neural imaging, the study suggests how collective memory filters our sense of history.
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11, 2019
Science and the Assyrians (Bess Connolly, YaleNews)
The science of isotopes suggests that drought help fell the Assyrian Empire.
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11, 2019
Your reading mind (Markham Heid, Medium)
A summary of studies that demonstrate how reading enlarges our mind.
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09, 2019
Humanities and climate change (Robert D. Newman, Los Angeles Review of Books)
The ways the humanities offer a greater, communal strength in confronting climate crises.