Humanities, history, and the university (Katherine Pickering Antonova, Washington Post)
Have conservative politics created the crisis in higher education?
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09, 2017
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09, 2017
Internet Rx: do doctors and patients know how to read advice on-line? (Philippa Göranson, Pulse)
On-line medical advice tests doctors and patients in new ways.
8
08, 2017
Writing by the numbers (Megan Gambino, Smithsonian)
Understanding writing through quantitative analysis.
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07, 2017
On dreams and waking, visions and our daily concerns
Dreams may become visions and show us a deeper awareness.
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07, 2017
Living well with philosophy (T. Rees Shapiro, Washington Post)
Philosophy deepens and widens our life's course.
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06, 2017
Putting the internet back together again, for culture’s sake (David Streitfeld, New York Times)
Can the internet come together in support of culture?
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05, 2017
Lost language, lost voices, lost worlds
When language is lost, we are also diminished.
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04, 2017
Promoting one’s image
The modern fascination with "image," particularly that of ourselves.
14
04, 2017
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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01, 2017
The busyness of business, the practice of inwardness (R. Hougaard, J. Carter, G. Dybkjaer, Harvard Business Review)
The busyness of business, and the practice of inwardness: how business leaders are profiting from the ancient method of mindfulness, as it leads to more rewarding decisions. From the article: Research has found that mindfulness training alters our brains and how we engage with ourselves, others, and our work. When practiced and applied, mindfulness fundamentally alters the operating [...]