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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07, 2019
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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.
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06, 2019
The Place of the Humanities
The humanities debates too often overlook the place of the humanities.
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06, 2019
Van Gogh and health (Paola Chesi, MedicinaNarrativa.eu)
Allowing art to elicit reflections on our own state of mind.
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05, 2019
Faith in machinery and the question of culture
Does the machinery of life become an end in itself?
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05, 2019
The shrinking humanities (Rosário Couto Costa, Palgrave Communications)
The downward spiral in humanities is a loss for all.
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04, 2019
Coming to terms with the ‘non-morality’ of nature
Whether we can accept nature on nonmoral terms.