News articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world.
AI helps find the roads to Rome (Pallab Ghosh, BBC News)
Using AI to puzzle out ancient inscriptions of the history of Rome.
The doctor and patient in care (medicinanarrative.eu)
The President of the Italian Society for Narrative Medicine explains its worth.
For the love of books (Katarina Zimmer, BBC Future)
The ways reading may boost your sense of well-being.
The state of play (Humanities Indicators)
Humanities Indicators publishes its latest survey of U.S. humanities departments.
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.