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14 02, 2018

Reading, knowledge, dreams, and nature: Valentine’s verses on the season

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When birds call forth the turning of the seasons.

12 02, 2018

Humanities in High School (Grace Huddleston, Rochester Post Bulletin)

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What can high-school humanities provide in the age of STEM?

30 01, 2018

Science and the superficial life

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Can science promote, or impede, the understanding of our higher purpose?

28 01, 2018

The humanities need no case

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The humanities chart the heights and depths of humanity.

23 01, 2018

The humanities’ dance with STEM (Alan Livsey, Financial Times)

Humanities Watch2018-01-24T20:54:39-05:00January 23rd, 2018|Academia, business, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Employment, Everything Else, News, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

A new book outlines the alliance between humanities and STEM.

21 01, 2018

Flowers, humanity, and the use of the useless

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What is "useless" serves to remind us of our humanity.

10 01, 2018

The humanities, class, and the university (Justin Stover, American Affairs Journal)

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The humanities have little standing in society at large.

4 01, 2018

Digitizing the pathways of publishing (Jennifer Clark, Wall Street Journal)

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By digital demonstration, researchers discover how publishing pathways and networks spread literacy among various social and economic classes.

13 12, 2017

Tech and the divided world (Berkeley Lovelace, Jr., CNBC)

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How technology creates a house divided in the name of communication.

11 12, 2017

The false promises of higher education (Bryan Caplan, Atlantic)

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Universities, born in the Middle Ages, appear to have out-lived their usefulness.