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21 12, 2016

Material success and intellectual life: worlds collide (Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg View)

Humanities Watch2016-12-21T10:32:39-05:00December 21st, 2016|2016, Academia, business, Debate / dialogue, December, Economics, education, Everything Else, News|0 Comments

Material success and intellectual life: worlds collide. Ramesh Ponnuru interviews Robert P. George and Cornell West, with surprising results. From his account: One thing that surprised me about our panel, though, was how little they dwelt on political correctness and how much they talked about another threat to the liberal arts: the tendency to view [...]

18 12, 2016

Solitude, inwardness, and demands of life

Humanities Watch2016-12-17T16:20:28-05:00December 18th, 2016|2016, Debate / dialogue, December, Employment, Europe, Everything Else, health, Literature, Philosophy, poetry, Quotes, Religion, Writing|0 Comments

Solitude, inwardness, and demands of life: how listening to the inner self, the poetic voice, offers freedom from conventions of work and society. I don’t want you to be without a greeting from me when Christmas comes and when you, in the midst of the holiday, are bearing your solitude more heavily than usual. But [...]

16 12, 2016

Tiny bubbles, of the mind (Sydney Finkelstein, BBC Capital)

Humanities Watch2016-12-13T09:39:24-05:00December 16th, 2016|2016, business, Debate / dialogue, December, education, Everything Else, History, mathematics, News, People, psychology, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Tiny bubbles, of the mind (make us feel happy / make us feel fine): the way technological mathematics limits our thinking, enclosing us in ever-smaller circles of awareness. From the article: The ubiquity of incredibly powerful algorithms designed to reinforce our interests also ensures that we see little of what’s new, different and unfamiliar. The [...]

13 12, 2016

The breath of memory: the science of our historical lives (ScienceDaily)

Humanities Watch2016-12-13T06:59:57-05:00December 13th, 2016|2016, Academia, December, Everything Else, History, News, science, STEM, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

The breath of memory: the science of our historical lives. How we breathe, and when we breathe, affects the way we recognize and recall what lies before us. A new study has wide implications for our reading and understanding the world's many forms of expression. From the study: The rhythm of breathing creates electrical activity in the [...]

11 12, 2016

Learning, language, and moral character

Humanities Watch2016-12-11T08:07:29-05:00December 11th, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, December, education, Europe, Everything Else, Language, Literature, Philosophy, Quotes, science|0 Comments

Learning, language, and moral character: to what degree does education, in humanities or the sciences, influence our moral progress? Their own weakness, however, is not the only factor which can make students of philosophy waver and double back. The earnest advice of friends and the mocking, bantering attacks of critics can also, on their occurrence, [...]

10 12, 2016

The business of Britain: Theresa May speaks about investment in science, but not in humanities

Humanities Watch2016-12-10T07:15:12-05:00December 10th, 2016|2016, Academia, Arts, business, December, Economics, Employment, Europe, Everything Else, News, Politics, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

The business of Britain: Prime Minister Theresa May speaks about investment in the sciences. But what of the humanities? From her speech: I want to ask you to work with me to show that the forces of capitalism, globalisation and free trade offer the best hope for the problems facing so many people in our country.... [...]

8 12, 2016

Papillon Enterprise: Creativity with a Conscience

Humanities Watch2017-04-27T17:44:09-04:00December 8th, 2016|2016, business, Central / South America, December, Economics, education, Employment, Everything Else, Fashion, health, Other Sites, People, Recommendations|0 Comments

"Papillon Enterprise is a socially & ecologically conscious business with a mission of stimulating the Haitian economy by exporting and marketing Haitian artisan goods. We are creating jobs for mothers & fathers who don’t want to have to abandon their children to an orphanage because they can’t feed them." h/t Rick Love [...]

5 12, 2016

Science and the music of history

Humanities Watch2016-12-15T07:22:37-05:00December 5th, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, December, Everything Else, History, Language, Observations, Philosophy, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Science and the music of history: is this a new age of knowledge? A scientist and an historian discuss the value of the past, and the promise of the future. Scientist: Hey there, Scrupulus, what have you been up to this morning? Historian: Oh hello, Speculus. Just listening to music. Scientist: I like to do that, [...]

3 12, 2016

History and the contingency of knowledge (Willard Dix, Forbes)

Humanities Watch2016-12-02T09:09:12-05:00December 3rd, 2016|2016, Academia, business, Debate / dialogue, December, Everything Else, History, News, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

History and contingency of knowledge: the ways that studying the past can teach us how we can better understand one another today. From the editorial: My introduction to the power of the liberal arts came in an undergraduate course studying the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.... Until then, I had assumed (as most high school students [...]

30 11, 2016