Humanities, education, and the continuity of culture
The humanities, although not inherently "practical and useful," nurture the gifted child, and all children.
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08, 2018
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07, 2018
The truth of the soul and the soul of truth
What it takes to be a psychoanalyst.
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07, 2018
Capturing time in elegant space (Cameron Laux, BBC Culture)
The artfulness of library spaces in their effort to capture time and history.
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06, 2018
The soul of AI (Brandon Ambrosino, BBC Future)
Calculating the potential of AI for soulfulness.
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06, 2018
Lunar visions: an astronaut gains a new perspective on the unity of knowledge
Lunar travel, as old as Lucian, achieves a new sublimity through the Apollo missions.
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06, 2018
AI sponsors the marriage of humanities and engineering (Microsoft)
A "renewed focus on the humanities" with the growth of AI, according to Microsoft.
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06, 2018
The language of ethics: Microsoft’s plans for AI (Keumars Afifi-Sabet, IT PRO)
Microsoft's CEO addresses how language expertise should shape AI.
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06, 2018
STEM investments mean cultivating the humanities as well (D. Skorton and J. Chu, USA Today)
STEM and the humanities are "branches from the same tree."
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05, 2018
The Tree in the Road
Can a tree block the path of progress?
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05, 2018
On the primacy of scientific thought (Peter Salovey, Scientific American)
Scientific thought is the way forward in order to transcend ideology and overcome bias.