If it isn’t in another category, it is here.
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01, 2018
The humanities need no case
The humanities chart the heights and depths of humanity.
23
01, 2018
The humanities’ dance with STEM (Alan Livsey, Financial Times)
A new book outlines the alliance between humanities and STEM.
21
01, 2018
Flowers, humanity, and the use of the useless
What is "useless" serves to remind us of our humanity.
19
01, 2018
Healthcare, healing, and Heidegger (Casey Rentmeester, Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy)
Philosophy can guide us to better healthcare.
15
01, 2018
On science and ignorance, and re-viewing the history of “progress”
How science meets its limits in questions awaiting answers.
10
01, 2018
The humanities, class, and the university (Justin Stover, American Affairs Journal)
The humanities have little standing in society at large.
7
01, 2018
The beauty of nature observed in its unfolding.
Beauty in nature is there to be seen, if we have eyes for it.
4
01, 2018
Digitizing the pathways of publishing (Jennifer Clark, Wall Street Journal)
By digital demonstration, researchers discover how publishing pathways and networks spread literacy among various social and economic classes.
22
12, 2017
Meditation on the brain (Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer, Atlantic)
How meditation alters the way the brain functions.
20
12, 2017
The poet and civilization: why does a poet write, and why does it matter?
Poets write not merely for themselves but more importantly for the world and civilization in which they live.