News articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world.
309, 2019
History in the digital age (Ian Milligan, The Conversation)
Digital documents and data require new skills at exploring historical context.
3008, 2019
Bread of the Pharaohs (Alix Kroeger, BBC News)
Reviving 5000-year-old bread yeast to understand ancient Egypt.
2708, 2019
Diving into history (Tara Roberts, National Geographic)
Divers find fragments of lost history, reconstructing the past in order to understand ourselves.
2008, 2019
Humanities can’t stem the tech-tide (Paul Musgrave, Washington Post)
Why the humanities cannot offer the ethical guidance for STEM.
1608, 2019
LiDAR illuminates the past (Erin Blakemore, National Geographic)
LiDar reveals new evidence of past societies, revolutionizing archaeology.
1208, 2019
Advanced Robotics find Renaissance shipwreck (Sten Hankewitz, Estonian World)
How a robotics team located a Renaissance ship in nearly perfect condition.
708, 2019
AI and the liberal-arts classroom (Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review)
Attempting to use AI to enhance creativity, writing, and language learning.
608, 2019
“Engineering before engineers” (Alex Abrams, Wake Forest University)
Appreciating the historical roots of engineering in Renaissance ingenuity.
208, 2019
Language, environment, and healing (Maria Giulia Marini, MedicinaNarrativa.eu)
Using philosophy to understand the ways that language and environment enhance healing.
2807, 2019
A.G.I. meets the brain (Cade Metz, New York Times)
Training AI to re-create human intelligence.