The Tree in the Road
Can a tree block the path of progress?
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05, 2018
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05, 2018
HumanitiesDenied.edu (Frank Bruni, New York Times)
Forgetting history and humanities for the sake of perceived modernity: a new memorial of the present times.
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05, 2018
Purpose and passion: innovating humanities research at Duke University
A new grant at Duke aims at innovating how the humanities are taught and understood.
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04, 2018
A Fair Exchange: A Dialogue about the Value of Goods
How we may value goods without fully knowing their price.
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04, 2018
Following DNA pathways in the weave of history (Paul Rincon, BBC Science)
How ancient DNA reveals the historic travels of our ancestors.
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04, 2018
Forgetting “Never Forget” (Maggie Astor, New York Times)
How we forget the past, even as we have new means to remember it.
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04, 2018
Building Knowledge in the Renaissance: Humanist Constructs and Conversations
How did Renaissance humanities build knowledge in ways that still have meaning today? An upcoming talk and discussion at Syracuse University.
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04, 2018
History and the Natural Sciences
Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) assesses, for his students in Basel, the relation between history and the natural sciences, “the only disinterested comrades we have.” […]
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04, 2018
Spatial imagining uncovers hidden Amazon civilization (Robert Lee Hotz, Wall Street Journal)
Satellite and other imagery discloses new ranges of human history.
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03, 2018
Squaring the circle with the humanities (Linus Devadoss, Jewish World Review)
How complexity is part of the humanities' calculus.