The suitcase of knowledge ( G. Mangiapane and A. Parrinello, Reuters)
At 96, a college graduate receives high honors in history and philosophy.
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10, 2020
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08, 2020
The Two Ponds
A old fable that speaks to our busy lives here and now.
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07, 2020
More on the humanities and the coronavirus (Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education)
Applying the humanities to questions created by the coronavirus crisis.
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06, 2020
The rising cost of humanities in Australia (Susan Forde, The Conversation)
As the Australian government raises the cost of humanities degrees, it ignores their importance for business and culture.
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06, 2020
A Distant Mirror? Economic Lessons from the Black Death (William Caferro)
How the fourteenth-century plague offers deeper lessons for our understanding of pandemics.
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06, 2020
Humanities and the coronavirus crisis (Kirsten Ostherr, Inside Higher Ed)
The ways the humanities can aid in contending with the coronavirus.
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05, 2020
Calzabigi 70: crossings of time and language on the Tuscan coast (Antonio Bardi)
How family, language, and memory take new forms in the time of the coronavirus.
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05, 2020
Lessons of the pandemic (George A. Soper, Science)
Fighting viral contagion with time-tested advice.
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04, 2020
Chaucer and Chinese medicine
How Chaucer's pilgrims enact the walking cure in springtime crisis, in line with Chinese medicine.
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04, 2020
Plague and pandemic, at a distance (James Hankins, Quillette)
Coping with disease at a distance during the time of plague.