The Shipwreck of the Humanities
Do the humanities prevent or foster our cultural shipwreck?
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08, 2017
Writing by the numbers (Megan Gambino, Smithsonian)
Understanding writing through quantitative analysis.
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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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08, 2017
Cathedrals and science, or art in the disposable universe
What does art tell us beyond science about the human condition?
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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.
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07, 2017
Speaking of science (Nick Roll, Inside Higher Ed)
The need to speak more about how university science and research contribute to our lives.
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07, 2017
Coding over languages (Andy Kessler, Wall Street Journal)
Coding is a language as universal as English.
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07, 2017
Rediscovering the humanities in financial matters
Why literature, history, philosophy, and art offer countless examples of financial insight, and why knowing the ways of finance deepens our appreciation of the humanities.
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07, 2017
Living well with philosophy (T. Rees Shapiro, Washington Post)
Philosophy deepens and widens our life's course.
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07, 2017
New ethics fund finances discussion and research about artificial intelligence (Deven Coldewey, TechCrunch)
Financing new research into the ethics of artificial intelligence.