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9 01, 2019

The place of the humanities in STEM (U.S. Committee on STEM Education)

Humanities Watch2019-01-09T07:00:31-05:00January 9th, 2019|Academia, Arts, Economics, education, Everything Else, History, News, Politics, science, STEM, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Do humanities have more than a marginal place in the current view of STEM education?

2 01, 2019

Melding philosophy and computer science (Gina Vitale, MIT News)

Humanities Watch2019-01-01T17:14:23-05:00January 2nd, 2019|Academia, education, Language, News, Philosophy, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Using philosophy to improve our understanding of computers.

18 12, 2018

Burying history (Benjamin M. Schmidt, Perspectives)

Humanities Watch2018-12-18T10:36:55-05:00December 18th, 2018|Academia, education, Everything Else, History, mathematics, News, STEM, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

History shows the recent steep decline in history majors.

12 12, 2018

Humanities enhance business and STEM: an interview with Michael Tworek of Cambridge Humanities Group

Humanities Watch2018-12-12T14:54:55-05:00December 12th, 2018|Academia, Economics, education, Everything Else, History, Literature, Quotes, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Using humanities skills to provide new perspectives for business and STEM.

10 12, 2018

Duplex skills for the modern world (Jeffrey J. Selingo, Washington Post)

Humanities Watch2018-12-28T22:45:39-05:00December 10th, 2018|Academia, education, Everything Else, History, News, Philosophy, STEM|0 Comments

A new attempt to integrate the skills fostered by humanities and STEM.

7 12, 2018

Freedom behind bars (Chris Wilson, Medium)

Humanities Watch2018-12-28T22:47:32-05:00December 7th, 2018|education, Everything Else, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, News, STEM|0 Comments

Books in a prison library provide freedom and new life.

26 11, 2018

Bleeding crimson: Harvard loses the humanities (Noah D. Dasanaike, Harvard Crimson)

Humanities Watch2018-11-26T14:23:47-05:00November 26th, 2018|Academia, education, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, mathematics, News, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Harvard follows the general trends in academic enrollments, with the sciences gaining and the humanities losing.

21 11, 2018

Virtual scholarship: the lure of the fourth dimension

Humanities Watch2018-11-21T10:00:55-05:00November 21st, 2018|Academia, Debate / dialogue, education, Europe, Everything Else, Language, Libraries, Literature, Observations, poetry, STEM, Writing|0 Comments

Learning from libraries past, present, and future.

6 11, 2018

W(h)ither the humanities? (Jeffrey Selingo, The Atlantic)

Humanities Watch2018-11-06T05:32:14-05:00November 6th, 2018|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Employment, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, mathematics, News, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Can humanities study remain relevant in the world of STEM?

30 10, 2018

Literature and science: a call to combine the two temperaments in our reading

Humanities Watch2018-12-29T03:34:37-05:00October 30th, 2018|Academia, Arts, education, Europe, Everything Else, Language, Literature, Quotes, science, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

The artist and scientist combine to create the best reader.