Everything Else Archives

10 11, 2016

The same wavelength: how language stimulates our minds in similar ways (Ushma Patel, News at Princeton)

By Humanities Watch|2016-11-09T18:24:40-05:00November 10th, 2016|2016, Academia, Everything Else, Language, News, November, science|0 Comments

The same wavelength: how language stimulates the brains of speakers and listeners in similar ways. Prof. Uri Hasson of Princeton, a philosophy undergraduate major, studies the complexity of understanding with imagination and magnetic resonance imaging. From the article: On average, the listener's brain responses mirrored the speaker's brain responses with some time delays. The delays [...]

8 11, 2016

Platinum, poetry, and the past: using science to imagine the poet’s response to history

By Humanities Watch|2016-11-08T09:06:15-05:00November 8th, 2016|2016, Arts, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, November, poetry, Quotes, Writing|0 Comments

Platinum, poetry, and the past: using science to imagine the poet's response to history Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.... In the last article I tried to point out the importance of the relation of the poem to other poems by other authors, and suggested the conception [...]

6 11, 2016

Voices heard: humanities in the public media (April Simpson, Current)

By Humanities Watch|2019-07-10T18:11:57-04:00November 6th, 2016|2016, Academia, education, Employment, Everything Else, History, Journalism, News, November, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Voices heard: humanities in the public media. How the arts of communication allow deeper and broader conversation. From the article: Eric Garcia McKinley [a History Ph.D.] will eventually try to engage with underrepresented communities, informing how Minnesota Public Radio’s journalists approach issues of identity and perspective. His academic background has prepared him for that job, something journalists [...]

2 11, 2016

Winter Dreams: F. Scott Fitzgerald

By Humanities Watch|2016-11-02T20:22:29-04:00November 2nd, 2016|2016, Everything Else, Literature, November, U.S. / Canada, Videos, Writing|0 Comments

Winter Dreams: F. Scott Fitzgerald. An evocative look at Fitzgerald's life and work.

1 11, 2016

On Politics and Poetry: a dialogue between a poet and a politician

By Humanities Watch|2016-11-06T11:07:34-05:00November 1st, 2016|2016, Arts, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Everything Else, History, Journalism, Language, Literature, November, Observations, Philosophy, poetry, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

On Politics and Poetry: a dialogue between a poet and a politician Politician: What’s going on, poet? Are you able to scrabble together a living? Poet: Rich enough, I suppose, though it’s hard to earn my bread. What about you: still hungry for attention? Politician: That’s rich, coming from you! I have the best interests of [...]

30 10, 2016

From past stupidity to future intelligence (The Long+Short)

By Humanities Watch|2016-10-30T07:02:47-04:00October 30th, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, History, News, October, Philosophy, science, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

From past stupidity to future intelligence: Stephen Hawking speaks, not without irony, about AI at the new Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. From his remarks: We spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let’s face it, is mostly the history of stupidity. So it is a welcome change that people [...]

27 10, 2016

Adding to life, in physics or metaphysics

By Humanities Watch|2016-10-27T07:01:52-04:00October 27th, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, History, Literature, October, Philosophy, poetry, Quotes, science|0 Comments

Adding to life, in physics or metaphysics: does the number of years constitute our goal, or the vitality of the years? Physicist: ... without getting out my microscope, I judge that life is a finer thing than death, and I award the golden apple to life, seeing them both with their clothes on. Metaphysician: And I [...]

26 10, 2016

STEM requires the humanities to grow (Scientific American)

By Humanities Watch|2016-11-02T16:15:35-04:00October 26th, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Employment, Everything Else, Journalism, Literature, News, October, Politics, science, STEM, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

STEM requires the humanities to grow: why learning classics along with coding is the best way forward. From the editorial: Promoting science and technology education to the exclusion of the humanities may seem like a good idea, but it is deeply misguided. Scientific American has always been an ardent supporter of teaching STEM: science, technology, engineering and [...]

23 10, 2016

From Greece to China

By Humanities Watch|2016-10-22T15:56:07-04:00October 23rd, 2016|2016, Academia, Arts, Asia, China, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Museums, News, October, science, Technology|0 Comments

From Greece to China, with kouros: the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an may have found their footing through Greek artisans who migrated to China, a hypothesis supported by genetic research. From the article: A separate study shows European-specific mitochondrial DNA has been found at sites in China's western-most Xinjiang Province, suggesting that Westerners may have settled, lived [...]

21 10, 2016

No time for thinking

By Humanities Watch|2016-11-02T11:52:03-04:00October 21st, 2016|2016, Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, History, Journalism, Language, October, Philosophy, Politics, psychology, Quotes, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

No time for thinking: does this observation, nearly two hundred years ago, still hold? On the restless impatience of American society, among both commentators and their public. Men who live in ages of equality have a great deal of curiosity and little leisure; their life is so practical, so confused, so excited, so active, that but [...]