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20 01, 2025

Nourishing the humanities’ growth

By Humanities Watch|2025-01-20T09:40:46-05:00January 20th, 2025|Academia, Arts, Debate / dialogue, education, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, March, Politics, Quotes, science, STEM|0 Comments

An interview with Phoebe Stein of the State Humanities Councils on recognizing and supporting public humanities.

11 01, 2025

AI and human extinction (Dan Milmo, The Guardian)

By Humanities Watch|2025-01-12T09:49:15-05:00January 11th, 2025|Academia, April, Debate / dialogue, education, Everything Else, History, March, mathematics, News, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

A founding scientist warns that AI development threatens humanity with extinction.

4 01, 2025

On philanthropy, science, and dreams

By Humanities Watch|2025-01-05T10:00:43-05:00January 4th, 2025|Arts, Everything Else, Law, March, Philosophy, poetry, Quotes, Religion, science, STEM|0 Comments

Whitman's observations on what is meaningful in life, and worth supporting.

24 11, 2024

Lidar locates another lost city (Georgina Rannard, BBC)

By Humanities Watch|2024-11-24T14:30:19-05:00November 24th, 2024|April, Arts, Central / South America, education, environment, Everything Else, History, March, News, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

A review of lidar data reveals a hidden ancient city.

20 11, 2024

How the humanities nurture tech, and vice versa

By Humanities Watch|2024-11-21T06:02:32-05:00November 20th, 2024|Academia, Everything Else, History, Philosophy, Quotes, Religion, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Interviewing Sylvester Johnson, Kluge Chair in Science and Technology, on the humanities' future with technology.

8 09, 2024

Leonardo and the science of scent (Tim Brinkhof, Artnet)

By Humanities Watch|2024-09-08T17:55:00-04:00September 8th, 2024|Academia, Arts, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Medicine, News, painting, science|0 Comments

Leonardo and the science of scent: a recent exhibit explores da Vinci's fascination with smell. From the article: Touted as a multi-sensory, olfactory experience, the exhibition shows that Leonardo got interested in perfumes after comparing the machinations of smell to those of sight and hearing. He collected commercially available perfumes, many of them made [...]

12 05, 2024