Humanities and Human Ties (Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic)
Finding the human center in the humanities.
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Humanities, history, and the university (Katherine Pickering Antonova, Washington Post)
Have conservative politics created the crisis in higher education?
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The sublimity of intuition, in humanity and in the natural world
Our intuitions may have sublime origin, amid our doubts, no matter how grave.
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Pictures more than words show the humanities’ challenge
Words yield to pictures as the humanities decline.
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The Two Gardens
Do gardens display the course of time, or a timeless science?
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Zero-sum games (Hannah Devlin, Guardian)
How the zero changed math, and where it arose.
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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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The death of English (Hephzibah Anderson, BBC Culture)
The American idiom hastens the English demise.
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Internet Rx: do doctors and patients know how to read advice on-line? (Philippa Göranson, Pulse)
On-line medical advice tests doctors and patients in new ways.
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The habits of learning, for good or ill, in tune with the times
Our habits are part of our education for better and worse.