The Big Dog: stars and their stories serve to inspire us
How stars become dogs, and vice-versa.
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12, 2017
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12, 2017
AI and the uncertainty principle (Dave Gershgorn, Quartz)
AI's sure-footed decisions belie the uncertainty embedded in its programming.
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12, 2017
The false promises of higher education (Bryan Caplan, Atlantic)
Universities, born in the Middle Ages, appear to have out-lived their usefulness.
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12, 2017
English study and medical training: what the literature tells us (Mark Abadi, Business Insider)
A healthy knowledge of English enhances medical learning.
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11, 2017
Philosophy for (and of) science (Subrena E Smith, Aeon)
Modern science has its roots, historical and conceptual, in philosophy.
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11, 2017
Thinking and thanking: reflections on Humanities Watch’s second anniversary
Reflections on thinking, thanking, and remembrance at the close of two years.
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11, 2017
The education of tech and the historical crisis (John Naughton, The Guardian)
The humanities help compensate for the one-sidedness of technological expertise.
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11, 2017
Science meets mythology
Two formative thinkers of the 20th-century consider the force of instinctual aggression.
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11, 2017
The joy of writing (Sirin Pilay, Harvard Heath Blog)
Writing may provide a release to anxiety.
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10, 2017
History as quarry: how chemistry uncovered the routes of medieval artistry (Nicholas St. Fleur, NY Times)
Chemistry provides the sleuthing in finding the historical path of the medieval art trade