Science, art, and modern history
Whether science offers our history more hope or hopelessness.
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02, 2018
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02, 2018
Sourcing Shakespeare in cyberspace (Michael Blanding, NY Times)
Cyber-sleuthing appears to uncover a new source for Shakespeare's plays.
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02, 2018
Humanities in High School (Grace Huddleston, Rochester Post Bulletin)
What can high-school humanities provide in the age of STEM?
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02, 2018
Laser lights up Mayan civilization (Jacey Fortin, New York Times)
How we can learn from the ancients, assisted by modern science.
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02, 2018
The humanities and healing (IFL Science)
The humanities help doctors heal others and themselves through a greater sense of wholeness.
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01, 2018
The humanities need no case
The humanities chart the heights and depths of humanity.
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01, 2018
Flowers, humanity, and the use of the useless
What is "useless" serves to remind us of our humanity.
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01, 2018
Less fleas than lice in Black Death’s vise (Victoria Gill, BBC Science)
New models suggest the plague or Black Death was likely spread more by human lice than rodent fleas.
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01, 2018
Digitizing the pathways of publishing (Jennifer Clark, Wall Street Journal)
By digital demonstration, researchers discover how publishing pathways and networks spread literacy among various social and economic classes.
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01, 2018
Science unveils new secrets of Egyptian mummies (Pallab Ghoush, BBC News)
New science reveals hidden secrets of ancient Egypt.