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13 10, 2024

Columbus the wanderer (Sam Jones and Nadeem Badshah, The Guardian)

By Humanities Watch|2024-10-13T09:31:41-04:00October 13th, 2024|Academia, Central / South America, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, History, News, Politics, Religion, STEM|0 Comments

Researchers claim that DNA documents Columbus's Jewish ancestry.

27 02, 2024

The humanities we know

By Humanities Watch|2024-02-28T05:33:49-05:00February 27th, 2024|Academia, business, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, Politics, Quotes, STEM, Technology, Theater, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

Talking about the launch of the new journal Public Humanities.

6 02, 2024

Art in the Industrial Age (Zarmeen Soomro, Sindh Courier)

By Humanities Watch|2024-02-06T16:01:19-05:00February 6th, 2024|Academia, Asia, education, environment, Everything Else, Language, Music, Nature, News, Politics, Writing|0 Comments

An exhibit at the University of Sindh shows the power of art to address a crisis of need.

2 01, 2024

Humanities and the cloud of unknowing (Agnes Callard, New York Times)

By Humanities Watch|2024-01-12T16:14:58-05:00January 2nd, 2024|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, Language, Literature, mathematics, News, Philosophy, poetry, Politics, science|0 Comments

Whether defending the humanities misses their essence.

30 10, 2023

The high rate of humanities employment (Humanities Indicators)

By Humanities Watch|2023-10-30T08:55:51-04:00October 30th, 2023|Academia, business, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Employment, Everything Else, News, Politics, STEM, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

A state-by-state US survey showing the strength of humanities jobs.

8 08, 2023

Aztecs, Elizabethans, and the Looking Glass (S. Campbell, E. Healey, Y. Kuzman, M.D. Glascock, Antiquity)

By Humanities Watch|2023-08-08T15:06:45-04:00August 8th, 2023|Academia, Arts, Central / South America, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Museums, News, Politics, Religion, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Science broadens our understanding of global influences in the late Renaissance.

10 06, 2023

Entertaining diversity with great books (Andrew Delbanco, Wall Street Journal)

By Humanities Watch|2023-06-10T10:51:42-04:00June 10th, 2023|Academia, Debate / dialogue, education, Everything Else, History, Libraries, Literature, News, Philosophy, Politics, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

How the humanities can foster diversity by discussing great books.

26 03, 2023

Human intelligence and AI (Yuval Harari, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, New York Times)

By Humanities Watch|2023-03-26T11:26:50-04:00March 26th, 2023|Arts, Debate / dialogue, education, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

How heedlessly promoting AI threatens human language and culture.

10 02, 2023

New light on Biblical lettering (Megan Sauter, Bible History Daily)

By Humanities Watch|2023-02-10T19:59:36-05:00February 10th, 2023|Academia, Asia, Everything Else, History, Museums, News, Politics, Religion, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Reflective Transformation Imaging provides new clues to the Biblical King David.

2 12, 2022

Math, logic, and the Holy Roman Emperor (Hugh Schofield, BBC News)

By Humanities Watch|2022-12-02T10:29:39-05:00December 2nd, 2022|Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, mathematics, military, News, Politics, Religion, Writing|0 Comments

The science of cryptography helps unlock a secret 16th-C. exchange.