Last words no longer lost (Dalya Alberge, The Guardian)
New technologies reveal etched writings for the first time.
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12, 2024
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12, 2024
December fables for the present time.
From dogs to monkeys, fables speak for themselves.
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11, 2024
Lidar locates another lost city (Georgina Rannard, BBC)
A review of lidar data reveals a hidden ancient city.
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11, 2024
How the humanities nurture tech, and vice versa
Interviewing Sylvester Johnson, Kluge Chair in Science and Technology, on the humanities' future with technology.
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11, 2024
Know-how and unlearning
Reflections on Humanities Watch's ninth anniversary.
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10, 2024
The present humanities in a global scope (World Humanities Report)
An annual review of the state of global humanities.
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10, 2024
Columbus the wanderer (Sam Jones and Nadeem Badshah, The Guardian)
Researchers claim that DNA documents Columbus's Jewish ancestry.
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10, 2024
A Librarian’s Life in Her Letters: Belle Greene and the Morgan Library
Letters reveal the shaping of a public institution, the Morgan Library.
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09, 2024
The music of the fishes (Alessia Franco and David Robson, BBC Future)
How ancient oral traditions teach the rhythms and methods of fishing in Sicily.
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09, 2024
Leonardo and the science of scent (Tim Brinkhof, Artnet)
Leonardo and the science of scent: a recent exhibit explores da Vinci's fascination with smell. From the article: Touted as a multi-sensory, olfactory experience, the exhibition shows that Leonardo got interested in perfumes after comparing the machinations of smell to those of sight and hearing. He collected commercially available perfumes, many of them made [...]