News articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world.
1202, 2018
Humanities in High School (Grace Huddleston, Rochester Post Bulletin)
What can high-school humanities provide in the age of STEM?
402, 2018
Laser lights up Mayan civilization (Jacey Fortin, New York Times)
How we can learn from the ancients, assisted by modern science.
202, 2018
The humanities and healing (IFL Science)
The humanities help doctors heal others and themselves through a greater sense of wholeness.
2301, 2018
The humanities’ dance with STEM (Alan Livsey, Financial Times)
A new book outlines the alliance between humanities and STEM.
1901, 2018
Healthcare, healing, and Heidegger (Casey Rentmeester, Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy)
Philosophy can guide us to better healthcare.
1701, 2018
Less fleas than lice in Black Death’s vise (Victoria Gill, BBC Science)
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)
The humanities have little standing in society at large.
401, 2018
Digitizing the pathways of publishing (Jennifer Clark, Wall Street Journal)
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)
New science reveals hidden secrets of ancient Egypt.
2212, 2017
Meditation on the brain (Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer, Atlantic)
How meditation alters the way the brain functions.