Aztecs, Elizabethans, and the Looking Glass (S. Campbell, E. Healey, Y. Kuzman, M.D. Glascock, Antiquity)
Science broadens our understanding of global influences in the late Renaissance.
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08, 2023
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06, 2023
Delving deeper (Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future)
How technology is transforming our understanding of maritime history.
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06, 2023
Roman legacy (Heritage Daily – Archaeology News)
Roman legacy: the seaside science of ancient concrete. From the article: Around A.D. 79, Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote in his Naturalis historia that concrete structures in harbors, exposed to the constant assault of the saltwater wave, become "a single stone mass, impregnable to the waves and every day stronger." He wasn’t exaggerating. While [...]
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05, 2023
The genome’s philosophical turn (David Cox, BBC Future)
New debate over the degree that genetics shape our choices.
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05, 2023
The plague of loneliness (Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States)
Whither / wither the humanities in our social isolation?
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04, 2023
The humanities’ advantage (Higher Education Policy Institute)
A new report argues for renewed support for the humanities in Britain.
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04, 2023
Writing for health
That writing fosters our health in inverse proportion to our use of chatbots.
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03, 2023
Slowing the roll of AI (Future of Life Institute)
A request for a thoughtful pause in AI progression.
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03, 2023
Human intelligence and AI (Yuval Harari, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, New York Times)
How heedlessly promoting AI threatens human language and culture.
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03, 2023
Moving beyond the two cultures
Reflecting on how the two cultures lead to a Dantean limit governed by Love.