If it isn’t in another category, it is here.
4
07, 2023
Syncopated synapses (Jon Hamilton, NPR)
How the arts help us think and create.
1
07, 2023
Pizza at Pompeii? (Farrell Monaco, BBC Travel)
Finding flatbread in the buried city.
18
06, 2023
Delving deeper (Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future)
How technology is transforming our understanding of maritime history.
10
06, 2023
Entertaining diversity with great books (Andrew Delbanco, Wall Street Journal)
How the humanities can foster diversity by discussing great books.
5
06, 2023
Roman legacy (Heritage Daily – Archaeology News)
Roman legacy: the seaside science of ancient concrete. From the article: Around A.D. 79, Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote in his Naturalis historia that concrete structures in harbors, exposed to the constant assault of the saltwater wave, become "a single stone mass, impregnable to the waves and every day stronger." He wasn’t exaggerating. While [...]
25
05, 2023
Cancer in medieval Britain (University of Cambridge)
New research with scans suggests a higher incidence of cancer in medieval Britain.
23
05, 2023
Rome reborn in our lives
How travel to Rome is also a search for meaning.
16
05, 2023
The genome’s philosophical turn (David Cox, BBC Future)
New debate over the degree that genetics shape our choices.
6
05, 2023
The plague of loneliness (Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States)
Whither / wither the humanities in our social isolation?
28
04, 2023
The humanities’ advantage (Higher Education Policy Institute)
A new report argues for renewed support for the humanities in Britain.