The Tree in the Road
Can a tree block the path of progress?
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05, 2018
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05, 2018
HumanitiesDenied.edu (Frank Bruni, New York Times)
Forgetting history and humanities for the sake of perceived modernity: a new memorial of the present times.
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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.
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04, 2018
Do doctors need the humanities? (Chris Pope and Tim Rice, Wall Street Journal)
A claim that the costs of the humanities outweigh their benefits for doctors.
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04, 2018
Following DNA pathways in the weave of history (Paul Rincon, BBC Science)
How ancient DNA reveals the historic travels of our ancestors.
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04, 2018
Forgetting “Never Forget” (Maggie Astor, New York Times)
How we forget the past, even as we have new means to remember it.
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04, 2018
Building Knowledge in the Renaissance: Humanist Constructs and Conversations
How did Renaissance humanities build knowledge in ways that still have meaning today? An upcoming talk and discussion at Syracuse University.
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04, 2018
Scientific intuition and funding
The support for intuitive scientific research is often lacking.
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04, 2018
History and the Natural Sciences
Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) assesses, for his students in Basel, the relation between history and the natural sciences, “the only disinterested comrades we have.” […]
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04, 2018
Readers, scientists, and “artists”
The way we read, or do not read, books and nature