Lunar visions: an astronaut gains a new perspective on the unity of knowledge
Lunar travel, as old as Lucian, achieves a new sublimity through the Apollo missions.
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06, 2018
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06, 2018
STEM investments mean cultivating the humanities as well (D. Skorton and J. Chu, USA Today)
STEM and the humanities are "branches from the same tree."
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05, 2018
The Tree in the Road
Can a tree block the path of progress?
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05, 2018
HumanitiesDenied.edu (Frank Bruni, New York Times)
Forgetting history and humanities for the sake of perceived modernity: a new memorial of the present times.
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05, 2018
On the primacy of scientific thought (Peter Salovey, Scientific American)
Scientific thought is the way forward in order to transcend ideology and overcome bias.
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05, 2018
Purpose and passion: innovating humanities research at Duke University
A new grant at Duke aims at innovating how the humanities are taught and understood.
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04, 2018
Do doctors need the humanities? (Chris Pope and Tim Rice, Wall Street Journal)
A claim that the costs of the humanities outweigh their benefits for doctors.
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04, 2018
Following DNA pathways in the weave of history (Paul Rincon, BBC Science)
How ancient DNA reveals the historic travels of our ancestors.
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04, 2018
Scientific intuition and funding
The support for intuitive scientific research is often lacking.
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04, 2018
History and the Natural Sciences
Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) assesses, for his students in Basel, the relation between history and the natural sciences, “the only disinterested comrades we have.” […]