AI and the digital divide (Stephen Marche, The Atlantic)
Whether the humanities can think about AI and the digital world, and vice-versa.
29
12, 2022
16
11, 2022
Finding time and space for words, and words for time and space (Miriam Frankel and Matt Warren, BBC Future)
Studying how a language shapes perception of time and space.
10
11, 2022
On modern education, east and west
That universities deprive their students and society with a focus on career preparation.
3
11, 2022
Pride, work, and health
On being, and not being, indispensable.
22
10, 2022
Cézanne’s way of seeing (Matthew Wilson, BBC Culture)
Cézanne's work vibrates with insights from philosophy and neurology.
26
09, 2022
AI in the humanities (Nicholas Agar, Diplomatic Courier)
The ways AI infiltrates the humanities, and a suggested response.
10
09, 2022
More STEM, fewer humanities (J.M. Thomas, The Spectator)
Rhetorical and ethical questions about the humanities, resolved by reducing them.
24
08, 2022
Those useless humanities degrees again (CNBC)
Business journalists comment on the value of higher education one more time.
23
08, 2022
A call for humanities (Daedalus)
Humanities engage the public interest.
14
08, 2022
On watching the Perseid meteor shower
Classical and medieval contemplation of the heavens.