On math and the Muses
How philosophy and the Muses lead to peace and away from war.
4
03, 2020
3
01, 2020
STEM is in the air (Virginia Heffernan, Wired)
STEM has the air of insubstantiality.
26
12, 2019
The firsts in Leonardo’s Last Supper
The firsts in the ways Leonardo's Last Supper integrates optics, mathematics, art, psychology, and faith.
23
11, 2019
Math and language study (Anand Jagatia, BBC Future)
Language differences may enhance or inhibit ability in math.
12
09, 2019
New turns for STEM (Mitchell Baker, Scientific American)
The roots of STEM need to turn to deeper ethical resources.
2
08, 2019
Language, environment, and healing (Maria Giulia Marini, MedicinaNarrativa.eu)
Using philosophy to understand the ways that language and environment enhance healing.
28
07, 2019
A.G.I. meets the brain (Cade Metz, New York Times)
Training AI to re-create human intelligence.
18
07, 2019
Girls choosing humanities (Thomas Breda and Clotilde Napp, PNAS)
How higher reading skills may lead girls to choose humanities study, despite their excellence in math.
19
06, 2019
Funding new ways to study the ethics of AI (Benjamin Stupples and Heather Perlberg, Bloomberg)
The largest donation since the Renaissance gives Oxford new funding to examine AI ethics, involving the humanities and other disciplines.
11
06, 2019
Engineering beauty in the Renaissance (Claudio Bozza and Iacopo Gori, Corriere della sera)
How scientific and artistic ingenuity fused to create the dome on the cathedral of Florence.