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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Humanities, history, and the university (Katherine Pickering Antonova, Washington Post)
Have conservative politics created the crisis in higher education?
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The sublimity of intuition, in humanity and in the natural world
Our intuitions may have sublime origin, amid our doubts, no matter how grave.
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Pictures more than words show the humanities’ challenge
Words yield to pictures as the humanities decline.
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The Two Gardens
Do gardens display the course of time, or a timeless science?
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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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The death of English (Hephzibah Anderson, BBC Culture)
The American idiom hastens the English demise.
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Our devices, our selves (Jean M. Twenge, The Atlantic)
How personal devices may undermine our personhood.
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New language, new cultures (Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal)
Learning new languages leads to the blending of new cultures.
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The liberal arts and the path to fulfillment (George Anders, Atlantic)
The liberal arts, including the humanities, open up new possibilities for fulfilling lives.