News articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world.
2706, 2018
Prescription mindfulness via smartphone app (Sumathi Reddy, Wall Street Journal)
Prescribing mindfulness with an app.
2306, 2018
The soul of AI (Brandon Ambrosino, BBC Future)
Calculating the potential of AI for soulfulness.
2006, 2018
A toolkit for the humanities (National Humanities Alliance)
Organized arguments in one toolkit supporting humanities study.
1706, 2018
The power of listening (Maria Guilia Marini, Medicinanarrativa.edu)
How listening to patients allows for greater health.
1206, 2018
AI sponsors the marriage of humanities and engineering (Microsoft)
A "renewed focus on the humanities" with the growth of AI, according to Microsoft.
906, 2018
The language of ethics: Microsoft’s plans for AI (Keumars Afifi-Sabet, IT PRO)
Microsoft's CEO addresses how language expertise should shape AI.
606, 2018
STEM investments mean cultivating the humanities as well (D. Skorton and J. Chu, USA Today)
STEM and the humanities are "branches from the same tree."
306, 2018
The data-driven society via Google (Vlad Savov, The Verge)
Google envisions gathering online data in order to better society by its standards.
2805, 2018
HumanitiesDenied.edu (Frank Bruni, New York Times)
Forgetting history and humanities for the sake of perceived modernity: a new memorial of the present times.
2505, 2018
Happiness? There’s an app for that (Terena Bell, Delta Sky Magazine / April 2018)
Putting the app in happiness.