Forgetting “Never Forget” (Maggie Astor, New York Times)
How we forget the past, even as we have new means to remember it.
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04, 2018
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04, 2018
Scientific intuition and funding
The support for intuitive scientific research is often lacking.
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04, 2018
Computing the Future (Mark Kaelin, TechRepublic)
One technology company runs risk assessments on the ethical use of AI.
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02, 2018
Science, art, and modern history
Whether science offers our history more hope or hopelessness.
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01, 2018
Science and the superficial life
Can science promote, or impede, the understanding of our higher purpose?
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01, 2018
On science and ignorance, and re-viewing the history of “progress”
How science meets its limits in questions awaiting answers.
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01, 2018
The humanities, class, and the university (Justin Stover, American Affairs Journal)
The humanities have little standing in society at large.
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01, 2018
Science unveils new secrets of Egyptian mummies (Pallab Ghoush, BBC News)
New science reveals hidden secrets of ancient Egypt.
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12, 2017
The poet and civilization: why does a poet write, and why does it matter?
Poets write not merely for themselves but more importantly for the world and civilization in which they live.
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12, 2017
Tech and the divided world (Berkeley Lovelace, Jr., CNBC)
How technology creates a house divided in the name of communication.