Pictures more than words show the humanities’ challenge
Words yield to pictures as the humanities decline.
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09, 2017
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09, 2017
Zero-sum games (Hannah Devlin, Guardian)
How the zero changed math, and where it arose.
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09, 2017
Coding is the new language requirement (Jean Dimeo, Inside Higher Ed)
Coding is the language required by our modern technological society.
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09, 2017
The death of English (Hephzibah Anderson, BBC Culture)
The American idiom hastens the English demise.
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09, 2017
The habits of learning, for good or ill, in tune with the times
Our habits are part of our education for better and worse.
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08, 2017
New language, new cultures (Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal)
Learning new languages leads to the blending of new cultures.
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08, 2017
Hearing what is simple amid the technological noise
The simple remains to be heard in a time of technology.
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08, 2017
In praise of polymaths (David Edmonds, BBC Magazine)
Why the broader knowledge possessed by polymaths is needed today more than ever.
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08, 2017
The “Two Cultures” revisited (Roger Kimball, The New Criterion)
Reviewing the "two cultures" debate in light of modern science.
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08, 2017
The Shipwreck of the Humanities
Do the humanities prevent or foster our cultural shipwreck?