Humanities, self-knowledge, and our digital times
Discussing the need to re-discover the historical force of the humanities in our scattered lives.
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07, 2019
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06, 2019
Follow the money: what college students wish they had done differently (Catey Hill, MarketWatch)
College students pay attention to the costs and benefits of their majors, including humanities.
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06, 2019
Artificial intelligence, artificial consciousness? (Prashanth Ramakrishna, NY Times)
Do we need to upgrade ourselves to keep pace with artificial intelligence?
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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
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
Granite State humanities (Rob Greene, Manchester Ink Link)
Discussing the humanities in New Hampshire.
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05, 2019
To the rescue of the humanities (Ryane Liao, The Stanford Daily)
Rescuing the humanities in five steps.