Nourishing the humanities’ growth
An interview with Phoebe Stein of the State Humanities Councils on recognizing and supporting public humanities.
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01, 2025
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12, 2024
Not easy reading (The Economist)
That the academic humanities engage in increasingly obscure jargon.
12
12, 2024
Last words no longer lost (Dalya Alberge, The Guardian)
New technologies reveal etched writings for the first time.
12
11, 2024
Know-how and unlearning
Reflections on Humanities Watch's ninth anniversary.
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10, 2024
The present humanities in a global scope (World Humanities Report)
An annual review of the state of global humanities.
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10, 2024
A Librarian’s Life in Her Letters: Belle Greene and the Morgan Library
Letters reveal the shaping of a public institution, the Morgan Library.
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09, 2024
The music of the fishes (Alessia Franco and David Robson, BBC Future)
How ancient oral traditions teach the rhythms and methods of fishing in Sicily.
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08, 2024
Song of the whales (Katherine Latham and Anna Bressanin, BBC Future)
Patient study of sperm whales' soundings uses AI to discern their language.
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07, 2024
The novel brain (Carol Clark, Emory University eScienceCommons)
Greater engagement with language and with other lives through reading novels.
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06, 2024
Language learning in the wild (Guardian, Agence France-Presse)
Researchers gain insight into elephants' individualized communication.