Diving into history (Tara Roberts, National Geographic)
Divers find fragments of lost history, reconstructing the past in order to understand ourselves.
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08, 2019
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08, 2019
Medieval monks and modern science (BBC Ideas)
Medieval monastic observations aid astronomy about comets and other heavenly objects.
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08, 2019
Advanced Robotics find Renaissance shipwreck (Sten Hankewitz, Estonian World)
How a robotics team located a Renaissance ship in nearly perfect condition.
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08, 2019
“Engineering before engineers” (Alex Abrams, Wake Forest University)
Appreciating the historical roots of engineering in Renaissance ingenuity.
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07, 2019
Finding the soul in the play of words
How the spontaneity of the soul is often dulled by practical and political concerns.
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07, 2019
Girls choosing humanities (Thomas Breda and Clotilde Napp, PNAS)
How higher reading skills may lead girls to choose humanities study, despite their excellence in math.
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06, 2019
Funding new ways to study the ethics of AI (Benjamin Stupples and Heather Perlberg, Bloomberg)
The largest donation since the Renaissance gives Oxford new funding to examine AI ethics, involving the humanities and other disciplines.
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06, 2019
Einstein’s vision of God (Brian Gallagher, Nautilus)
Einstein's shifting conceptions of God draw on historical parallels.
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06, 2019
The history in our bones (Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future)
How our bones reveal our historical choices.
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06, 2019
Engineering beauty in the Renaissance (Claudio Bozza and Iacopo Gori, Corriere della sera)
How scientific and artistic ingenuity fused to create the dome on the cathedral of Florence.