Use, value, and science: the spirit of our time
Whether use and value is the only force at work in our lives.
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03, 2018
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02, 2018
Science, art, and modern history
Whether science offers our history more hope or hopelessness.
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02, 2018
Humanities in High School (Grace Huddleston, Rochester Post Bulletin)
What can high-school humanities provide in the age of STEM?
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02, 2018
Laser lights up Mayan civilization (Jacey Fortin, New York Times)
How we can learn from the ancients, assisted by modern science.
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01, 2018
The humanities need no case
The humanities chart the heights and depths of humanity.
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01, 2018
Flowers, humanity, and the use of the useless
What is "useless" serves to remind us of our humanity.
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01, 2018
Less fleas than lice in Black Death’s vise (Victoria Gill, BBC Science)
New models suggest the plague or Black Death was likely spread more by human lice than rodent fleas.
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01, 2018
On science and ignorance, and re-viewing the history of “progress”
How science meets its limits in questions awaiting answers.
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01, 2018
The humanities, class, and the university (Justin Stover, American Affairs Journal)
The humanities have little standing in society at large.
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01, 2018
Digitizing the pathways of publishing (Jennifer Clark, Wall Street Journal)
By digital demonstration, researchers discover how publishing pathways and networks spread literacy among various social and economic classes.