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24 02, 2025

Unscrolling the past with AI (Ian Sample, The Guardian)

By Humanities Watch|2025-02-24T17:13:06-05:00February 24th, 2025|Academia, education, environment, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, News, Philosophy, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

New AI technology allows us to peer inside damaged writings from the past.

18 04, 2024

Mind and machine (Dvija Mehta, BBC Future)

By Humanities Watch|2024-04-18T10:27:45-04:00April 18th, 2024|Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, Medicine, News, Philosophy, psychology, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Why implanting computing chips into the brain can challenge our sense of self.

11 02, 2024

Out from the ashes (Reed Albergotti, Semafor)

By Humanities Watch|2024-02-11T17:55:42-05:00February 11th, 2024|Arts, environment, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, News, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

A step in unravelling a 2000-year-old mystery though AI.

11 12, 2023

The ethical quandary of AI (Robert McMillan and Deepa Seetharaman, WSJ)

By Humanities Watch|2023-12-11T14:29:30-05:00December 11th, 2023|business, Debate / dialogue, Economics, Everything Else, Language, mathematics, News, Philosophy, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

How ethical concerns are in play in AI development.

23 05, 2023

Rome reborn in our lives

By Humanities Watch|2023-05-24T08:57:37-04:00May 23rd, 2023|Academia, Economics, education, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, painting, Philosophy, Quotes, Writing|0 Comments

How travel to Rome is also a search for meaning.

16 05, 2023

The genome’s philosophical turn (David Cox, BBC Future)

By Humanities Watch|2023-05-24T16:27:32-04:00May 16th, 2023|Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, health, History, Medicine, News, Philosophy, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

New debate over the degree that genetics shape our choices.

18 03, 2023

Moving beyond the two cultures

By Humanities Watch|2023-03-18T15:52:47-04:00March 18th, 2023|Arts, Europe, Everything Else, History, Literature, mathematics, Nature, Philosophy, Quotes, Religion, science, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Reflecting on how the two cultures lead to a Dantean limit governed by Love.

2 03, 2023

Digital da Vinci (Museo Galileo, Florence)

By Humanities Watch|2023-03-02T08:24:26-05:00March 2nd, 2023|Academia, education, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Language, Literature, mathematics, Museums, Nature, News, painting, Philosophy, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus in its digital dimensions.

20 01, 2023

Techniques and technology (Christopher Rim, Forbes)

By Humanities Watch|2023-01-20T08:51:58-05:00January 20th, 2023|Academia, Arts, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Employment, Everything Else, News, Philosophy, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Liberating education from its focus on usefulness.

14 01, 2023

Beyond humanism, beyond humanities (Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic)

By Humanities Watch|2023-01-14T20:12:10-05:00January 14th, 2023|Academia, Debate / dialogue, education, environment, Everything Else, History, Nature, News, Philosophy, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Humanity, or its absence, beyond humanism.