The humanities need no case
The humanities chart the heights and depths of humanity.
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01, 2018
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04, 2017
Death has no answer
A dialogue about life extension and limits, beyond biology and scholarship.
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10, 2016
Kudos to our modernity (Barack Obama, Wired and Weekly Address): UPDATED
Kudos to our modernity: how science continues to transform our lives for the better, to the point that now is the greatest time in history to be alive. From the editorial: This kind of progress hasn’t happened on its own. It happened because people organized and voted for better prospects; because leaders enacted smart, forward-looking policies; [...]
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10, 2016
The 17th-C. Plague in London: Now We Know (Nicole Staybridge, BBC)
The 17th-C. plague in London: now we know. How DNA (and Daniel Defoe) reveal the killer bacteria's identity in one of history's longest cold cases. From the article: Testing in Germany confirmed the presence of DNA from the Yersinia pestis bacterium - the agent that causes bubonic plague - rather than another pathogen. Some authors have previously questioned the [...]