News articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world.
Marvels of Merlin revealed (Donna Ferguson, BBC News)
Researchers unveil a hidden medieval manuscript of Merlin and Arthur hidden in a Renaissance book.
Rolling humanities (Humanities Indicators)
Rolling humanities: new data show how students choose a humanities major during their college years, if not at the outset. From the study: In recent years, the Humanities Indicators staff has received numerous questions [...]
Unscrolling the past with AI (Ian Sample, The Guardian)
New AI technology allows us to peer inside damaged writings from the past.
DeepSeek goes deep into humanities (Times of India)
How humanities foster AI creativity at DeepSeek.
Lost quiet (Sam Pyrah, The Guardian)
That living in silence is a lost, but needed, practice.
AI and human extinction (Dan Milmo, The Guardian)
A founding scientist warns that AI development threatens humanity with extinction.
Not easy reading (The Economist)
That the academic humanities engage in increasingly obscure jargon.
Last words no longer lost (Dalya Alberge, The Guardian)
New technologies reveal etched writings for the first time.
Lidar locates another lost city (Georgina Rannard, BBC)
A review of lidar data reveals a hidden ancient city.
The present humanities in a global scope (World Humanities Report)
An annual review of the state of global humanities.