Literature and science: a call to combine the two temperaments in our reading
The artist and scientist combine to create the best reader.
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10, 2018
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10, 2018
AI and Greek myth (Adrienne Mayor, Asia Times)
Can Pandora's story yield a warning about the promise of AI?
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10, 2018
The meaning of medical humanities (Brandy Shillace, The Polyphony)
Thinking not only about the way medicine views the humanities, but vice-versa.
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10, 2018
The ghosts of Rome
Voices of the spirit world and their historical, timeless importance.
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09, 2018
Building Knowledge in the Humanities
From a talk on the humanities and Renaissance humanism presented at Syracuse University, April 2018
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09, 2018
AI misconceived (Michael Jordan, Medium)
Both scientists and the general public misunderstand the challenges and opportunities of new technologies.
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09, 2018
Cooperation, culture, and the psyche (Vittorio Lingiardi and Benedetto Farino, la Repubblica)
Cooperation fosters culture as an evolutionary process.
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09, 2018
Humanities and the environment (Bess Connolly Martell, YaleNews)
Studying the interrelationship between the humanities and the environmental sciences.
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09, 2018
Scientific certainties and humanities doubts (John Horgan, Scientific American)
Striking the balance between certainty and doubt with the help of the humanities.
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09, 2018
The humanities crisis down under (Francis McWhannell, The Spinoff)
How the humanities crisis down under came about, and what to do about it.