If it isn’t in another category, it is here.
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07, 2019
Girls choosing humanities (Thomas Breda and Clotilde Napp, PNAS)
How higher reading skills may lead girls to choose humanities study, despite their excellence in math.
15
07, 2019
This is your brain on the internet (Firth et al., World Psychiatry)
Going online can bring the mind offline.
8
07, 2019
Humanities, self-knowledge, and our digital times
Discussing the need to re-discover the historical force of the humanities in our scattered lives.
27
06, 2019
Follow the money: what college students wish they had done differently (Catey Hill, MarketWatch)
College students pay attention to the costs and benefits of their majors, including humanities.
25
06, 2019
Artificial intelligence, artificial consciousness? (Prashanth Ramakrishna, NY Times)
Do we need to upgrade ourselves to keep pace with artificial intelligence?
19
06, 2019
Funding new ways to study the ethics of AI (Benjamin Stupples and Heather Perlberg, Bloomberg)
The largest donation since the Renaissance gives Oxford new funding to examine AI ethics, involving the humanities and other disciplines.
16
06, 2019
Einstein’s vision of God (Brian Gallagher, Nautilus)
Einstein's shifting conceptions of God draw on historical parallels.
13
06, 2019
The history in our bones (Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future)
How our bones reveal our historical choices.
5
06, 2019
The Place of the Humanities
The humanities debates too often overlook the place of the humanities.
3
06, 2019
Van Gogh and health (Paola Chesi, MedicinaNarrativa.eu)
Allowing art to elicit reflections on our own state of mind.