News articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world.
2402, 2025
Unscrolling the past with AI (Ian Sample, The Guardian)
New AI technology allows us to peer inside damaged writings from the past.
1402, 2025
DeepSeek goes deep into humanities (Times of India)
How humanities foster AI creativity at DeepSeek.
802, 2025
Lost quiet (Sam Pyrah, The Guardian)
That living in silence is a lost, but needed, practice.
1101, 2025
AI and human extinction (Dan Milmo, The Guardian)
A founding scientist warns that AI development threatens humanity with extinction.
2112, 2024
Not easy reading (The Economist)
That the academic humanities engage in increasingly obscure jargon.
1212, 2024
Last words no longer lost (Dalya Alberge, The Guardian)
New technologies reveal etched writings for the first time.
2411, 2024
Lidar locates another lost city (Georgina Rannard, BBC)
A review of lidar data reveals a hidden ancient city.
2210, 2024
The present humanities in a global scope (World Humanities Report)
An annual review of the state of global humanities.
1310, 2024
Columbus the wanderer (Sam Jones and Nadeem Badshah, The Guardian)
Researchers claim that DNA documents Columbus's Jewish ancestry.
2309, 2024
The music of the fishes (Alessia Franco and David Robson, BBC Future)
How ancient oral traditions teach the rhythms and methods of fishing in Sicily.