Handwriting, typing, word-processing, texting: an evolution, or devolution, of understanding.
How the shift from handwriting to technological word-processing indicates a loss of language's deeper meaning.
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12, 2017
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11, 2017
Thinking and thanking: reflections on Humanities Watch’s second anniversary
Reflections on thinking, thanking, and remembrance at the close of two years.
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11, 2017
Language, emotion, and the world around us (David Robson, BBC Future)
Languages, in consort with others, foster emotional awareness.
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11, 2017
The dawn and dusk of the humanities (Marilynne Robinson, NY Review of Books)
Do the humanities exhaust themselves in utility?
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10, 2017
The humanities and windows of vision (Gerald Greenberg, Washington Post)
The humanities open up new perspectives on oneself and others.
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10, 2017
Our voices and their deeper meaning
Our voices record our selves, through and beyond the spoken word.
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09, 2017
Zero-sum games (Hannah Devlin, Guardian)
How the zero changed math, and where it arose.
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09, 2017
Coding is the new language requirement (Jean Dimeo, Inside Higher Ed)
Coding is the language required by our modern technological society.
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09, 2017
The death of English (Hephzibah Anderson, BBC Culture)
The American idiom hastens the English demise.
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08, 2017
New language, new cultures (Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal)
Learning new languages leads to the blending of new cultures.