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20 07, 2016

STEM without poetry is like life without metaphor (Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy and Uri Wilensky, Hechinger Report)

By |2016-07-19T16:41:31-04:00July 20th, 2016|2016, Academia, education, Everything Else, July, Literature, News, poetry, STEM|0 Comments

STEM without poetry is like life without metaphor: how scientists may improve their writing and understanding by reading literature. From the editorial: It is within the lines of poetry that students can discover, celebrate and appreciate other cultures, dialects, ethnicities, world views and experiences. As science educators, we have integrated literature and poetry into scientific training. [...]

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11 07, 2016

Identity and Difference: can we become part of another society without losing ourselves?

By |2016-09-13T22:53:26-04:00July 11th, 2016|2016, Africa, Asia, education, Europe, Everything Else, History, July, Language, Philosophy, psychology, Quotes|0 Comments

Identity and Difference: can we become part of another society without losing ourselves? A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which [...]

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2 07, 2016

Liberal arts needed in the tech world (David Kalt, Wall Street Journal)

By |2016-11-02T11:52:10-04:00July 2nd, 2016|2016, education, Employment, Everything Else, July, Language, News, Philosophy, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Liberal arts needed in the tech world: why having a facility for languages, of all sorts, enhances the richness of software development. From the editorial: Most liberal arts degrees encourage a well-rounded curriculum that can give students exposure to programming alongside the humanities. Philosophy, literature, art, history and language give students a thorough understanding of how [...]

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24 06, 2016

AI is coming, and it’s our boon (Brian Fung, Washington Post)

By |2016-09-13T23:05:12-04:00June 24th, 2016|2016, Debate / dialogue, Employment, Everything Else, June, News, STEM, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

AI is coming, and it's our boon: how working with computers and technology can, in fact, aid the inquiry into ourselves. From the editorial: Making artificial intelligence easy for regular people to use and love depends on a field of research called human-computer interaction, or HCI. And for Ben Shneiderman, a computer science professor at the University of Maryland, [...]

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17 06, 2016

Science first, humanities later (Vinod Khosla, Medium)

By |2016-11-02T11:52:11-04:00June 17th, 2016|2016, Debate / dialogue, Economics, Everything Else, History, June, News, Philosophy, science, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Science first, humanities later: logic and computer science beat Jane Austen and Shakespeare. From the editorial: Though Jane Austen and Shakespeare might be important, they are far less important than many other things that are more relevant to make an intelligent, continuously learning citizen, and a more adaptable human being in our increasingly more complex, diverse [...]

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5 06, 2016

The Republic of Science (Jim Tankersley, Washington Post)

By |2016-11-02T11:52:11-04:00June 5th, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, Economics, Everything Else, June, News, Philosophy, Politics, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Reading philosophy and economic theory, Charles Koch turns his business acumen and ambition to the spread of research ideas. From the article and interview: Polanyi’s “The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory,” published in 1962, is the text that best illustrates what Koch is trying to do with his massive personal fortune — and [...]

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21 05, 2016

Can the humanities provide the skills that employers find missing? (Karsten Strauss, Forbes)

By |2016-05-21T07:33:18-04:00May 21st, 2016|2016, Academia, Employment, Everything Else, May, News, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Can the humanities provide the skills that employers find missing? A survey of employers shows that college graduates lack both the "hard" and "soft" skills they are seeking, from writing to problem solving. From the article. Among ‘hard skills’ – unambiguous proficiencies useful on the job – managers said new grads were most lacking in [...]

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18 05, 2016

Free speech and the humanities (Camille Paglia, The Smart Set)

By |2016-11-02T11:52:12-04:00May 18th, 2016|2016, Academia, Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, History, Literature, May, News, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Free speech and the humanities: do the humanities foster, or inhibit, freedom of expression? The author decries the "identity politics" and "improper advocacy" among the humanities, which undermine open, rigorous inquiry. From the article: The problem of political correctness is intensified by the increasing fixation of humanities and even history departments on “presentism,” that is, a preoccupation [...]

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5 04, 2016

Computers transform our knowledge of the past (James O’Malley, Little Atoms)

By |2016-04-08T08:40:13-04:00April 5th, 2016|2016, Academia, April, Europe, History, Literature, News, Religion, Technology|0 Comments

Computers transform our knowledge of the past. According to the author, computerized quantitative analysis offers insights that traditional historical study cannot. From the article: Huge swathes of our past are slowly but surely getting digitised as old books and scanned and organised. It stands to reason that surely once the historians get to work it [...]

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