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7 12, 2018

Freedom behind bars (Chris Wilson, Medium)

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

Books in a prison library provide freedom and new life.

28 11, 2018

The usefulness of literature and philosophy

By Humanities Watch|2018-11-28T12:12:02-05:00November 28th, 2018|Academia, education, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, Philosophy, poetry, Quotes|0 Comments

A Renaissance conception of the usefulness and value of the humanities, for humanity.

20 11, 2018

Uncovering ancient technology (Philippe Bohstrom, Haaretz)

By Humanities Watch|2018-11-20T11:35:11-05:00November 20th, 2018|Asia, Europe, Everything Else, mathematics, Nature, News, Religion, science, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

The ancient computer lost at sea, found by current technology.

6 11, 2018

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

By Humanities Watch|2018-11-06T05:32:14-05:00November 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?

23 10, 2018

AI and Greek myth (Adrienne Mayor, Asia Times)

By Humanities Watch|2018-10-23T14:26:00-04:00October 23rd, 2018|Debate / dialogue, education, Everything Else, health, History, Literature, News, painting, Philosophy, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Can Pandora's story yield a warning about the promise of AI?

2 10, 2018

The ghosts of Rome

By Humanities Watch|2019-11-24T16:55:18-05:00October 2nd, 2018|Arts, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, Observations, Politics, Religion, Writing|0 Comments

Voices of the spirit world and their historical, timeless importance.

30 09, 2018

Building Knowledge in the Humanities

By Humanities Watch|2018-10-03T14:27:19-04:00September 30th, 2018|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, Philosophy, poetry, Politics, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada, Videos|0 Comments

From a talk on the humanities and Renaissance humanism presented at Syracuse University, April 2018

13 09, 2018

Humanities and the environment (Bess Connolly Martell, YaleNews)

By Humanities Watch|2018-09-13T03:04:18-04:00September 13th, 2018|Academia, environment, Everything Else, History, Literature, News, Philosophy, science, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Studying the interrelationship between the humanities and the environmental sciences.

5 09, 2018

Dreams, yesterday and today

By Humanities Watch|2018-09-05T14:54:25-04:00September 5th, 2018|Academia, Arts, Europe, Everything Else, Language, Libraries, Literature, Nature, Philosophy, poetry, psychology, Quotes, Religion, science, Writing|5 Comments

How dreams have affected our reasoning and reality, then and now.

16 08, 2018

All too human? In praise of the robotic marriage (Andy Clark, New York Times)

By Humanities Watch|2018-08-15T19:21:55-04:00August 16th, 2018|Economics, education, Everything Else, History, Nature, News, Philosophy, psychology, science, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

The marriage of humanity and robots is here and should be celebrated.

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