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Nature, time, and self-discovery

Nature, time, and self-discovery: a physicist speaks about the mysteries of our lives, hearkening to Lucretius: Nature is our home, and in nature we are at home. This strange, multicolored, and astonishing world that we explore -- where space is granular, time does not exist, and things are nowhere -- is not something that estranges us [...]

Obsessing about STEM (Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post)

By Humanities Watch|2016-03-06T15:46:58-05:00March 8th, 2016|2016, Academia, Arts, Debate / dialogue, Employment, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Medicine, News, Philosophy, Politics, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Obsessing about STEM: America seems entranced by STEM education, at the expense of our future, which requires more agile ways of thinkings that the humanities and liberal arts provide. "The United States has led the world in economic dynamism, innovation and entrepreneurship thanks to exactly the kind of teaching we are now told to defenestrate. A [...]