News articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world.
Aztecs, Elizabethans, and the Looking Glass (S. Campbell, E. Healey, Y. Kuzman, M.D. Glascock, Antiquity)
Science broadens our understanding of global influences in the late Renaissance.
The stories doctors tell (Emily Bobrow, Wall Street Journal)
A writing program to offer insight and solace to the cares of physicians.
Syncopated synapses (Jon Hamilton, NPR)
How the arts help us think and create.
Pizza at Pompeii? (Farrell Monaco, BBC Travel)
Finding flatbread in the buried city.
Delving deeper (Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future)
How technology is transforming our understanding of maritime history.
Entertaining diversity with great books (Andrew Delbanco, Wall Street Journal)
How the humanities can foster diversity by discussing great books.
Roman legacy (Heritage Daily – Archaeology News)
Roman legacy: the seaside science of ancient concrete. From the article: Around A.D. 79, Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote in his Naturalis historia that concrete structures in harbors, exposed to the constant assault of [...]
Cancer in medieval Britain (University of Cambridge)
New research with scans suggests a higher incidence of cancer in medieval Britain.
The genome’s philosophical turn (David Cox, BBC Future)
New debate over the degree that genetics shape our choices.
The plague of loneliness (Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States)
Whither / wither the humanities in our social isolation?