Smart phones, dim minds (Nicholas Carr, Wall Street Journal)
Our phones' technology may diminish the ability of our minds to think and feel.
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10, 2017
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09, 2017
In AI we trust? (Olivia Solon, The Guardian)
AI becomes the deity, inspiring its believers with the idea of super-human intelligence.
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09, 2017
Humanities, history, and the university (Katherine Pickering Antonova, Washington Post)
Have conservative politics created the crisis in higher education?
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09, 2017
Zero-sum games (Hannah Devlin, Guardian)
How the zero changed math, and where it arose.
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09, 2017
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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09, 2017
Our devices, our selves (Jean M. Twenge, The Atlantic)
How personal devices may undermine our personhood.
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08, 2017
College students know the usefulness of humanities majors (Michelle Cheng, FiveThirtyEight)
Students determine the usefulness of the humanities according to their career path.
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08, 2017
The “Two Cultures” revisited (Roger Kimball, The New Criterion)
Reviewing the "two cultures" debate in light of modern science.
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08, 2017
Humanity and the machine: AI’s opening gambit (BBC Technology)
How humanity can dream of a machine-filled life.
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07, 2017
The mysterious strength of Roman engineering trumps modern know-how (Charles Q. Choi, Inside Science)
Roman engineering's secret strength challenges modern scientists.