Lost language, lost voices, lost worlds
When language is lost, we are also diminished.
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Stories and histories of science
Our scientific knowledge relies on narratives, which shift over time.
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Narrative medicine and compassionate care: the greater story ( Sarah Barber, Carlos J. Moreno-Leguizamon, Medical Humanities)
Healthcare practitioners may read a patient's narrative in more than the medical literature.
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Promoting one’s image
The modern fascination with "image," particularly that of ourselves.
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Technology addiction and self-alienation (Claudia Dreifus, New York Times)
The use of technology can lead to estrangement from others and ourselves.
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Sense, emotion, and scientific discovery (Lewis Lapham, Lapham’s Quarterly)
How experience fosters discovery of all kinds, as well as a deeper reading of history and literature
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Elon Musk and the Present Future of A.I. (Maureen Dowd, Vanity Fair)
Will artificial intelligence enhance or imperil our humanity?
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Memory and memorial
What lasts is not just what we make.
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Death has no answer
A dialogue about life extension and limits, beyond biology and scholarship.
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Caravaggio, Galileo, and the artful science of blood spurts (ResearchGate / Huffington Post)
How Galileo's theory of parabolic motion leads to a new attribution of a 17th-C. painting.