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1901, 2018

Healthcare, healing, and Heidegger (Casey Rentmeester, Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy)

Humanities Watch2018-01-18T20:27:37-05:00January 19th, 2018|Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, health, Language, Medicine, News, Philosophy, psychology, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|1 Comment

Philosophy can guide us to better healthcare.

1701, 2018

Less fleas than lice in Black Death’s vise (Victoria Gill, BBC Science)

Humanities Watch2018-01-18T08:15:03-05:00January 17th, 2018|Academia, Europe, health, History, Medicine, Nature, News, science|0 Comments

New models suggest the plague or Black Death was likely spread more by human lice than rodent fleas.

1001, 2018

The humanities, class, and the university (Justin Stover, American Affairs Journal)

Humanities Watch2018-01-10T09:37:52-05:00January 10th, 2018|Academia, Arts, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, Language, Literature, News, Philosophy, Politics, science, STEM, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

The humanities have little standing in society at large.

401, 2018

Digitizing the pathways of publishing (Jennifer Clark, Wall Street Journal)

Humanities Watch2018-01-03T14:53:42-05:00January 4th, 2018|Academia, business, education, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Libraries, Literature, News, STEM, Technology, Writing|0 Comments

By digital demonstration, researchers discover how publishing pathways and networks spread literacy among various social and economic classes.

201, 2018

Science unveils new secrets of Egyptian mummies (Pallab Ghoush, BBC News)

Humanities Watch2018-01-01T17:34:45-05:00January 2nd, 2018|Academia, Africa, Europe, History, Language, Museums, News, Politics, science, Technology|1 Comment

New science reveals hidden secrets of ancient Egypt.

2212, 2017

Meditation on the brain (Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer, Atlantic)

Humanities Watch2017-12-23T09:20:52-05:00December 22nd, 2017|China, Everything Else, health, News, Philosophy, psychology, Religion, science, STEM|0 Comments

How meditation alters the way the brain functions.

1812, 2017

AI and the uncertainty principle (Dave Gershgorn, Quartz)

Humanities Watch2017-12-18T20:55:14-05:00December 18th, 2017|Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, News, Philosophy, psychology, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

AI's sure-footed decisions belie the uncertainty embedded in its programming.

1312, 2017

Tech and the divided world (Berkeley Lovelace, Jr., CNBC)

Humanities Watch2017-12-13T11:07:56-05:00December 13th, 2017|business, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, History, Journalism, Language, News, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

How technology creates a house divided in the name of communication.

1112, 2017

The false promises of higher education (Bryan Caplan, Atlantic)

Humanities Watch2017-12-11T08:12:28-05:00December 11th, 2017|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, History, Language, Literature, News, poetry, psychology, science, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

Universities, born in the Middle Ages, appear to have out-lived their usefulness.

812, 2017

English study and medical training: what the literature tells us (Mark Abadi, Business Insider)

Humanities Watch2017-12-08T09:33:57-05:00December 8th, 2017|Academia, education, Employment, Language, Medicine, News, science, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

A healthy knowledge of English enhances medical learning.

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