News articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world.
1610, 2017
Lost Memory and AI (McGill University)
Using AI to show us the future loss of memory.
1110, 2017
Smart phones, dim minds (Nicholas Carr, Wall Street Journal)
Our phones' technology may diminish the ability of our minds to think and feel.
910, 2017
Investing in the humanities (Lisa Kaaki, Arab News)
The humanities enhance our return on investment.
3009, 2017
In AI we trust? (Olivia Solon, The Guardian)
AI becomes the deity, inspiring its believers with the idea of super-human intelligence.
2509, 2017
Humanities and Human Ties (Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic)
Finding the human center in the humanities.
2409, 2017
Humanities, history, and the university (Katherine Pickering Antonova, Washington Post)
Have conservative politics created the crisis in higher education?
1909, 2017
Pictures more than words show the humanities’ challenge
Words yield to pictures as the humanities decline.
1609, 2017
Zero-sum games (Hannah Devlin, Guardian)
How the zero changed math, and where it arose.
1309, 2017
Coding is the new language requirement (Jean Dimeo, Inside Higher Ed)
Coding is the language required by our modern technological society.
1009, 2017
The death of English (Hephzibah Anderson, BBC Culture)
The American idiom hastens the English demise.