Measuring gain and counting loss (Adrienne Bernhard, BBC Future)
How algebra became a calculus for life's passages, beginning in the 8th century.
How algebra became a calculus for life's passages, beginning in the 8th century.
How the history of medieval and Early Modern medicine informs our knowledge today.
Expressing the joy and loss of humanities in Australia.
An itinerary into libraries' collected knowledge, preserved from the past.
Digital documents and data require new skills at exploring historical context.
The reports of the death of the humanities have been an exaggeration.
Books in a prison library provide freedom and new life.
Learning from libraries past, present, and future.
From a talk on the humanities and Renaissance humanism presented at Syracuse University, April 2018
How dreams have affected our reasoning and reality, then and now.