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27 01, 2019

Heavy on STEM, light on humanities (Katherine Long, Seattle Times)

By Humanities Watch|2019-01-27T13:55:00-05:00January 27th, 2019|Academia, education, Employment, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Philosophy, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

The ebb of the humanities with the flow of STEM near Seattle.

22 01, 2019

Bilingual benefits for children (Jenny Silverstone, MomLovesBest)

By Humanities Watch|2019-01-22T07:21:59-05:00January 22nd, 2019|education, Everything Else, health, Language, News, psychology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

How being bilingual benefits children in many ways.

2 01, 2019

Melding philosophy and computer science (Gina Vitale, MIT News)

By Humanities Watch|2019-01-01T17:14:23-05:00January 2nd, 2019|Academia, education, Language, News, Philosophy, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Using philosophy to improve our understanding of computers.

22 12, 2018

The artful hospital (Maria Giulia Marini, medicinanarrativa.eu)

By Humanities Watch|2019-01-03T07:02:03-05:00December 22nd, 2018|Arts, Everything Else, health, Language, Literature, Medicine, Museums, painting, Quotes, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Overcoming clinical resistance to the ways that art engages the entire person and the family in the healing process.

7 12, 2018

Freedom behind bars (Chris Wilson, Medium)

By Humanities Watch|2018-12-28T22:47:32-05:00December 7th, 2018|education, Everything Else, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, News, STEM|0 Comments

Books in a prison library provide freedom and new life.

4 12, 2018

Understanding natural — not just artificial — intelligence (Melanie Mitchell, NY Times)

By Humanities Watch|2018-12-28T23:09:58-05:00December 4th, 2018|Academia, business, Economics, Language, Nature, News, Philosophy, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

We need to understand our natural degree of intelligence before relying on artificial means.

28 11, 2018

The usefulness of literature and philosophy

By Humanities Watch|2018-11-28T12:12:02-05:00November 28th, 2018|Academia, education, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, Philosophy, poetry, Quotes|0 Comments

A Renaissance conception of the usefulness and value of the humanities, for humanity.

26 11, 2018

Bleeding crimson: Harvard loses the humanities (Noah D. Dasanaike, Harvard Crimson)

By Humanities Watch|2018-11-26T14:23:47-05:00November 26th, 2018|Academia, education, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, mathematics, News, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Harvard follows the general trends in academic enrollments, with the sciences gaining and the humanities losing.

21 11, 2018

Virtual scholarship: the lure of the fourth dimension

By Humanities Watch|2018-11-21T10:00:55-05:00November 21st, 2018|Academia, Debate / dialogue, education, Europe, Everything Else, Language, Libraries, Literature, Observations, poetry, STEM, Writing|0 Comments

Learning from libraries past, present, and future.

13 11, 2018

Science, art, and truth

By Humanities Watch|2020-10-03T19:15:18-04:00November 13th, 2018|Arts, Asia, environment, Europe, Everything Else, Language, Literature, Music, Philosophy, poetry, Quotes, Religion, science, Technology|0 Comments

Truth required art in order to be realized.