If it isn’t in another category, it is here.
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10, 2017
The mockery of Science and the flight to outer space
Science and its mockery of the human drive for outer limits.
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09, 2017
The stages of criticism
Is the path of criticism really a path to understanding?
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09, 2017
Humanities, history, and the university (Katherine Pickering Antonova, Washington Post)
Have conservative politics created the crisis in higher education?
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09, 2017
Pictures more than words show the humanities’ challenge
Words yield to pictures as the humanities decline.
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09, 2017
The Two Gardens
Do gardens display the course of time, or a timeless science?
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09, 2017
The death of English (Hephzibah Anderson, BBC Culture)
The American idiom hastens the English demise.
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09, 2017
Internet Rx: do doctors and patients know how to read advice on-line? (Philippa Göranson, Pulse)
On-line medical advice tests doctors and patients in new ways.
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09, 2017
The habits of learning, for good or ill, in tune with the times
Our habits are part of our education for better and worse.
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08, 2017
Love, beauty, and the quest for wisdom
Love for beauty may lead to higher wisdom.
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08, 2017
College students know the usefulness of humanities majors (Michelle Cheng, FiveThirtyEight)
Students determine the usefulness of the humanities according to their career path.