Fragile humanities (Aaron Hanlon, The Washington Post)
Options for confronting the lack of trust in the humanities.
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04, 2022
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04, 2022
Yet more fables for early spring
Life lessons in the breath of spring.
6
04, 2022
Literature for life
Rescuing the humanities by discussing literature online.
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04, 2022
The great dance (Richard Utz, Inside Higher Ed)
Science and tech universities welcome the role of humanities in their courses.
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03, 2022
The Big Bang of language (N. Chater and M.H. Christiansen, Wall Street Journal)
New thoughts on the spontaneous formation of language.
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03, 2022
History is rejuvenation
A conversation about new youth from past events.
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02, 2022
The metrics of a life well-lived (D. Baumann and W. Ruch, Frontiers in Psychology)
Building a model to measure life fulfillment, in retrospect.
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02, 2022
Engaging hearts and minds in virtual space
The founder of Premise discusses the mission and nature of humanities conversations.
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12, 2021
Jousting with Judgmentalists
Sir Felix encounters a new group of censorious simpletons, and defeats their leader in a joust.
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11, 2021
Decoding Newton’s writings (James R. Voelkel, Science History Institute)
Using new scientific methods to determine the course of Newton's thinking.