Marvels of Merlin revealed (Donna Ferguson, BBC News)
Researchers unveil a hidden medieval manuscript of Merlin and Arthur hidden in a Renaissance book.
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04, 2025
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03, 2025
Rolling humanities (Humanities Indicators)
Rolling humanities: new data show how students choose a humanities major during their college years, if not at the outset. From the study: In recent years, the Humanities Indicators staff has received numerous questions about whether college students who start a humanities degree are more or less likely to finish it than those who [...]
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02, 2025
Unscrolling the past with AI (Ian Sample, The Guardian)
New AI technology allows us to peer inside damaged writings from the past.
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02, 2025
Lost quiet (Sam Pyrah, The Guardian)
That living in silence is a lost, but needed, practice.
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01, 2025
Nourishing the humanities’ growth
An interview with Phoebe Stein of the State Humanities Councils on recognizing and supporting public humanities.
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01, 2025
AI and human extinction (Dan Milmo, The Guardian)
A founding scientist warns that AI development threatens humanity with extinction.
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12, 2024
Last words no longer lost (Dalya Alberge, The Guardian)
New technologies reveal etched writings for the first time.
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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.