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26 03, 2023

Human intelligence and AI (Yuval Harari, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, New York Times)

By Humanities Watch|2023-03-26T11:26:50-04:00March 26th, 2023|Arts, Debate / dialogue, education, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

How heedlessly promoting AI threatens human language and culture.

5 03, 2023

Does the Madonna need AI? (Kelly Crow, Wall Street Journal)

By Humanities Watch|2023-03-05T12:08:22-05:00March 5th, 2023|Academia, Arts, business, Debate / dialogue, Economics, Europe, Everything Else, History, mathematics, News, painting, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Using AI technology to determine the artist of a Renaissance painting.

10 02, 2023

New light on Biblical lettering (Megan Sauter, Bible History Daily)

By Humanities Watch|2023-02-10T19:59:36-05:00February 10th, 2023|Academia, Asia, Everything Else, History, Museums, News, Politics, Religion, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Reflective Transformation Imaging provides new clues to the Biblical King David.

5 02, 2023

Mapping the Mayans (Aylin Woodward, Wall Street Journal)

By Humanities Watch|2023-02-05T10:03:49-05:00February 5th, 2023|Central / South America, environment, Everything Else, History, Nature, News, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Ongoing use of LiDar discloses the hidden dimensions of Mayan history.

19 12, 2022

Letter from Florence

By Humanities Watch|2022-12-19T03:58:45-05:00December 19th, 2022|Academia, Arts, business, Economics, education, Europe, Everything Else, health, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, Museums, Observations, painting, poetry, STEM|1 Comment

Thoughts from the historical heart of the humanities.

2 12, 2022

Math, logic, and the Holy Roman Emperor (Hugh Schofield, BBC News)

By Humanities Watch|2022-12-02T10:29:39-05:00December 2nd, 2022|Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, mathematics, military, News, Politics, Religion, Writing|0 Comments

The science of cryptography helps unlock a secret 16th-C. exchange.

16 11, 2022

Finding time and space for words, and words for time and space (Miriam Frankel and Matt Warren, BBC Future)

By Humanities Watch|2022-11-17T07:13:29-05:00November 16th, 2022|Central / South America, Debate / dialogue, education, environment, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Philosophy, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Studying how a language shapes perception of time and space.

25 10, 2022

Bubonic plague and genetic change (Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR)

By Humanities Watch|2022-10-25T09:36:46-04:00October 25th, 2022|environment, Europe, Everything Else, History, Medicine, News, STEM|0 Comments

How the second plague pandemic influenced the genome of its survivors.

5 10, 2022

Humanities down, down under (Simon During, The Conversation)

By Humanities Watch|2022-10-05T10:11:18-04:00October 5th, 2022|Academia, Economics, education, Employment, Everything Else, History, News|0 Comments

Weighing the challenges to humanities, in broad historical terms.

6 07, 2022

Pacific migration and matrilocal matrices (Hannah Devlin, The Guardian)

By Humanities Watch|2022-07-05T19:30:29-04:00July 6th, 2022|Asia, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Politics, science, STEM|0 Comments

New DNA analysis reveals migration routes of Pacific Islanders.

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