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20 01, 2020

The death of Danish (Ellie Bothwell, Times Higher Education)

By Humanities Watch|2020-01-20T08:04:39-05:00January 20th, 2020|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Employment, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, News, STEM|0 Comments

Denmark witnesses the decline in Danish language study.

17 01, 2020

The path toward phenomenal healthcare

By Humanities Watch|2020-01-17T09:41:45-05:00January 17th, 2020|Debate / dialogue, education, environment, Europe, Everything Else, health, History, Language, Literature, Medicine, Philosophy, psychology, Quotes, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

A conversation about humanities and healthcare, with patients at the center.

13 01, 2020

Humanities at the crossroads (Ross Douthat, New York Times)

By Humanities Watch|2020-01-12T21:13:29-05:00January 13th, 2020|Academia, Debate / dialogue, education, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Philosophy, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Why students of the humanities face tough choices.

8 01, 2020

Humanities reimagined (Susan Kirby-Smith, UNCG NOW)

By Humanities Watch|2020-01-08T08:58:58-05:00January 8th, 2020|Academia, Economics, Employment, Europe, Everything Else, History, Museums, News, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

How the reimagined humanities lift our prospects.

7 01, 2020

Humanities on the edge (Simon During, Chronicle of Higher Education)

By Humanities Watch|2020-01-07T09:10:03-05:00January 7th, 2020|Academia, business, education, Employment, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Philosophy, Religion|0 Comments

How the humanities have lost their centrality.

3 01, 2020

STEM is in the air (Virginia Heffernan, Wired)

By Humanities Watch|2020-01-02T15:00:21-05:00January 3rd, 2020|Academia, Economics, education, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, mathematics, News, STEM, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

STEM has the air of insubstantiality.

29 12, 2019

The Humanities App

By Humanities Watch|2019-12-29T13:15:47-05:00December 29th, 2019|Arts, Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, Observations, Philosophy, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

How an app for the humanities would help us understand the greater wholeness in technology.

26 12, 2019

The firsts in Leonardo’s Last Supper

By Humanities Watch|2019-12-26T16:27:11-05:00December 26th, 2019|Arts, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, mathematics, Museums, painting, Philosophy, Religion, Videos|0 Comments

The firsts in the ways Leonardo's Last Supper integrates optics, mathematics, art, psychology, and faith.

24 12, 2019

The higher good that leads us upward

By Humanities Watch|2019-12-24T08:45:30-05:00December 24th, 2019|education, Everything Else, History, Language, Philosophy, psychology, Quotes, Writing|0 Comments

We do not define the higher good; it defines us.

19 12, 2019

Brain scans spotlight the cast of history (Pierre Gagnepain et al., Nature Human Behavior)

By Humanities Watch|2019-12-19T06:59:33-05:00December 19th, 2019|Arts, education, environment, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Language, Museums, News, science, Technology|0 Comments

Using neural imaging, the study suggests how collective memory filters our sense of history.