The Shipwreck of the Humanities
Do the humanities prevent or foster our cultural shipwreck?
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08, 2017
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08, 2017
Writing by the numbers (Megan Gambino, Smithsonian)
Understanding writing through quantitative analysis.
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08, 2017
Humanity and the machine: AI’s opening gambit (BBC Technology)
How humanity can dream of a machine-filled life.
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08, 2017
Art abides while science passes
Art survives us and revives us in the time of science.
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07, 2017
Finding the words in a sea of literature
Samuel Johnson charts the history of language to create a monumental work.
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07, 2017
Rediscovering the humanities in financial matters
Why literature, history, philosophy, and art offer countless examples of financial insight, and why knowing the ways of finance deepens our appreciation of the humanities.
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07, 2017
The humanities of finance (John Laidler, Harvard Gazette)
A new book examines the way finance and the humanities together count for more.
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06, 2017
Latin lives, as much as we do (and perhaps more)
The life of Latin is part and parcel of our own.
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06, 2017
Cracking the code through the humanities (Ellen Ullman, Harper’s Magazine)
As code is written by people, the humanities -- the study of the human experience -- are critical for those who design it.
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06, 2017
Putting the internet back together again, for culture’s sake (David Streitfeld, New York Times)
Can the internet come together in support of culture?